A super quick video of my tallest tomato plant I have right. Its very thin due to being indoors with only a grow light. Now that the snow is gone the garlic …
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Question by Veronica: What can I do to prevent my tomato plants from dying?
My parents have some tomato plants and part of the plant seems to be dying. The leaves are turning yellow with brown spots on them. And some of the leaves have totally died and turned brown and are dried up. Is there anything we can do to the plants that are still ok to prevent from this happening? Can I purchase something at a store or a home remedy?
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Answer by Vyzygoth
I thought the same thing about my plants last year. They needed water as it was a drought last year.
Heirloom tomatoes have a tendency to get blight. Don’t plant them in the same place every year, rotate them.
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@DesertDigger1 This is just how it grew inside my house during the winter.
This was in March in PA and was still too cold to keep the plants outside
at night. It did fill out once it was out in natural sunlight. I usually
don’t cut the suckers off of my plants as I haven’t noticed much of a
difference in the fruit either way.
Woah that’s crazy long!
Man you butchered it!,how do you expect it to shade the fruit?
give them 1 tea spoon of epsom salts in a pint of water ,stir it to dissolve it 1st
watering the plant regularly might help you to get rid of it. it would also be wise if you use some herbicides.
More than likely the plants have a fungus. You can spray them with a fungicide and that will help but not solve the problem. I have 24 plants, all Cherokee Purple’s, and they all have the fungus. I am still picking plenty of tomatoes from them. Best thing you can do is nothing. Next year look for variety of tomato that has a high fungus resistance. You won’t get much flavor but should get fruit. You just have to learn to live with these problems. Heavy rains have been a negative factor this year. Moisture that it creates also spreads fungus.
You have blight which is a complex of fungal and bacterial disease. Humid weather brings it on. Nearly all tomato varieties can get early and late blights. I have found that a product called Oxydate knocks out blight if one catches early enough and keeps up with regular applications. Mulching well when planting seedlings can cut down on blight as a lot of the diseases are soil born and the mulch keeps soil from splashing up on the plant during rains. But as I said, humid conditions will cause it to happen. You should still get plenty of tomatoes from your plants though they will be ugly and will be dead by early September