Looks just like my setup!;) not really my hydroponics setup looks a little more lets say economical :)

Do those hanging tomatoes have drips coming from their roots? I live in S. FL and a green house like that would let me grow so much stuff all year round but then I wouldn't get as good of a tan as working outside :).

Great pics!

Thanks man...yeah if I remember correctly the roots were dripping. I tried to find out what varieties these were but didn't see any labels...

Nice picks!

I attended an international hydroponics conference a couple of years ago and we had a private behind the scenes tour of the Epcot growing area. The conveyor belt hanging root plants were some sort of squash at that time. I asked about the effectiveness/efficiency of the technique in relation to normal techniques and I was told that the conveyor belt hanging plants in particular were just there to look cool for the tourists rather than demonstrate an effective technique. The tomato tree is some special Japanese plant. I would not be surprised if the hanging tomatoes are cuttings.

One technique that did impress me was a tower system made by stacking cheap styrofoam coolers filled with perlite mix, alternating so that the corners of each were uncovered planting holes. Nutrient mix trickled down from the top through holes in the bottom of each cooler. The coolers were impaled on a pole. Later in the day we went something like $60-$100 a tower) to grow tomatoes, which cascaded down the sides. The place was mainly a U-pick strawbery farm, but grew other vegetables in the same way as a selling point for the systems.

Thanks man...yeah if I remember correctly the roots were dripping. I tried to find out what varieties these were but didn't see any labels...

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The Disney tomato was from China and a special one at that, so it was said somewhere at the Disney site or someone who went there asked about it.

There were several threads about this and probably still in the backposts here at GW which you can maybe find by doing a search at the bottom of the page.

If not, then Google it b'c those threads may have been cached.

Carolyn

This is my favorite place in all of WDW, I think...

Gardenboy, thank you for posting these pictures.
I'm going there this year, I must check this out. The kids will complain I'm sure.

I read that the Disney tomato tree is the only one of its kind in growing in the US. I also read that they serve the tomatoes in a lot of the restaurants at Disney. I am assuming they only served it cooked form? Otherwise I think I would order a salad and then within a year or so there would be more than one growing in the US. Of course in NY, it would never get so big.

That tree is AMAZING!!!! But why can't this be done with a regular tomato plant? I take cuttings off of my best romas every year, bring them inside and grow them all winter in my bedroom. I've kept the same plant for a long time before (I think the longest was 2 years). If I remember correctly, it got a pretty woody looking stem on it. I am definitely going to be trying this this year.

Jasz