I'm starting to get some production from some of my plants. The one zucchini plant has pretty much exploded in the past couple of weeks and It's starting to put out some squash. The squash it produces has been on the small side, which I think is due to the nutrient solution I'm using. Right now the nutrient solutions I'm using are still formulated for mostly vegetative growth. In a couple of weeks I'll be upping the amount of phosphorus to encourage more blooming and production. Unfortunately the zucchini is in the same ebb and flow system that some of my other plants are in, so I'll need them to catch up before I can start optimizing the nutrients for fruit production.
The tomato plants are about 18" high now and although they aren't as big as I'd like, almost all of that growth has come in the past 30 days. They are just starting to bloom, so perhaps in a few more weeks I'll be getting some fruit production out of them with any luck. All the tomato plants have a very extensive and healthy root system which is also the case with everything else. I haven't noticed much difference between the plants in the ebb and flow system and the DWC system.
I've gotten a small amount of green been production. Unfortunately the vertical growth from the vines has just about stopped and I'm not sure why. I suspect it's because I've allowed them to bush out too much on the bottom, so I've pruned one of them up pretty aggressively, and I'll retrain one of the suckers to go up. I don't have a lot of horizontal space so I'm trying to train them up a string, ideally to the roof of my covered porch and then I'll let them bush out as much as they want. I'm pruning the tomato plants to a single stem for the same reason.
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