Tomato is popular hydroponic crop cultivated predominantly with Albert solution. However, the recent trend in increased demand for organic agriculture warrants the need of alternative green liquid fertilizers as opposed to inorganic solution. Therefore, this study intended to investigate the effects of tomato photosynthetic, growth and yield performance supplemented with a simple and organic liquid fertilizer (OLF) prepared from home garden wastes through natural anaerobic fermentation using compost, goat manure, wild sunflower leaves, and banana peels supplemented with brown sugar (25 g/l). Anaerobic fermentation was allowed for up to 30 days. The prepared OLF was used to arrange five OLF treatments T1 (OLF, pH-5.5-6.5), T2 (OLF, pH-6.5-7.5), T3 (OLF, SWE, pH-5.5-6.5), T4 (OLF, SWE, pH-6.5-7.5), T5 (OLF, pH-5.5-6.5, MOP) and in addition, T6 - control (1000 ppm Albert solution, pH-5.5-6.5) with Albert solution were maintained in a plant net house facility. Tomato variety cv. Platina was used characterize the vegetative, floral, photosynthesis, and yield traits. Our results indicated that the nutrient levels were significantly higher at 15 days after fermentation, and highest nitrogen and phosphorus were obtained in the liquid solution. Tomato trial revealed that T6 (control) had significantly (P
Key words: Anaerobic fermentation, organic liquid fertilizer, photosynthesis characters, portable hydroponic system, tomato yield.
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