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Tomato

The crop this whole module exists for. Everything before fruit set is a decision about whether you get a plant or a crop: too comfortable and you get four metres of magnificent leaf and no trusses, too hard too early and the plant never builds the frame to carry them. The steering slider is the honest expression of that choice, and the number that tells you whether it landed is not the plant, it is the runoff EC.

Species
Solanum lycopersicum
System
Drip — rockwool, coco or Dutch bucket
Version
1.0.0
Provenance
Dutch substrate practice for indeterminate tomato, with EC and dryback targets moderated for Indian polyhouse light and the higher day temperatures that come with it.

What kills this system: Runoff volume per shot and a substrate water-content floor. A clogged emitter shows up as runoff that stops arriving.

The Tomato profile is a paid crop pack. The bands, the irrigation phases and the reasoning are in the file; what is below is the shape of it.

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Stage Days pH EC mS/cm Water °C DO mg/L Light
Establishment 14 13h
First trusses 21 13h
Production 90 13h

Every band on this site is a literature-derived starting point. None of them has been measured on your water, your cultivar or your polyhouse, and the variable that decides most of it — the alkalinity of what comes out of your borewell — is one this page cannot know. Validate on a small block before you commit a season.

Crop intelligence

Going in during August

Sowing windows open right now, from the crop reference.

Crop Sow Days pH Temp °C Yield
Guava Jul–Aug (planting) 2–3 yr to bear 6.0–7.5 23–30 20–25 t
Pomegranate Jul–Aug (planting) 2–3 yr to bear 6.5–7.5 20–35 15–20 t
Ber (Indian Jujube) Jul–Aug (planting) 2–3 yr to bear 6.0–8.5 20–35 15–20 t
Calamondin Jul–Aug 2–3 yr 5.5–6.5 18–32 12–20 t
Tea Jun–Aug (planting) 3–4 yr to pluck 4.5–5.5 18–30 2–3 t made tea
Oil Palm Jun–Sep (planting) 3–4 yr to bear 5.0–7.0 24–32 20–25 t FFB
Lemon Jul–Aug (planting) 3–4 yr to bear 6.0–7.5 20–32 15–20 t
Jojoba Jul–Aug 3–4 yr 6.0–8.0 20–35 1.5–3 t
Feijoa Jul–Aug 3–4 yr 5.5–7.0 10–25 10–15 t
Loquat Jul–Aug 3–4 yr 6.0–7.5 15–30 10–15 t
Jujube Jul–Aug 3–4 yr 6.0–8.0 15–35 10–15 t
Grapefruit Jul–Aug 3–4 yr 5.5–7.5 15–35 20–30 t
Citron Jul–Aug 3–4 yr 5.5–7.5 18–32 15–25 t
Kumquat Jul–Aug 3–4 yr 5.5–6.5 12–30 8–14 t

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