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Question by Tom: Why are my tomatoes plants wilting every day?
I water my tomatoes plants every day. The very next day they are wilted. After I water the tomatoes plants, they are just fine, but the next they are wilted again. What do you think is causing my tomatoes plants to wilt every day?
Best answer:
Answer by Snipper
If they are in pots,you would have to water them 2-3 times a day.
What do you think? Answer below!
I bet they come from your neibor’s who throw they back on your side of the
fence!
Cut them in half they will die
Put a bird feeder next to your garden, birds will come for a free meal and
when they see the worms they will gladly snatch them up since they prefer
stuff like that to bird seed
Ŀol
Don’t throw them over the fence. They will just pupate and you will have
more of them next year. The only way is to squash them. Put them in a
plastic bag and tie it up. They go crazy and attack each other and die.
Marigolds don’t always work. I have at least 10 plants surrounding my
tomatoes this year all in full bloom and I still have the Biggest tomato
hornworms I have seen in years!
Horn worms are TASTY !
what kind of peppers?
Why are you throwing them over the fence to give them to your neighbors?
Use a jar and put them in the jar.
They make the prettiest moths that look like hummingbirds. In my garden, If
they are decimating a plant, I’ll let these guys go. He was big enough (and
fat enough) that he was about to make his chrysalis. In a few weeks after
that, you’d have a healthy pollinator for your garden.
just found one in my garden. I was wondering what the hell was going on
with my plants . this suck my wife wanted to do a garden in 5gal pots and
we got squash bugs that ate our plants now these things…. Ive learned if
you plant a pepper plant in the middle of you tomatoes it will warn off the
green horns… Better luck next year…. Cj
that’s fucked up!!!!
Tomato hornworms are known to eat various plants from the family
Solanaceae, commonly feeding on tomato, eggplant, pepper, tobacco,
moonflowers and potato. Accordingly, they are often found on defoliated
tomato plants, the caterpillar clinging to the underside of a branch near
the trunk. They can be reduced by planting marigold flowers around these
plants. Let a few live. They become big beautiful moths and you know
agribusiness pesticides limit their range unnaturally.
why didnt u kick it?
Well it’s not to prevent put what I do is I check my plants and grab all
the suckers and the line them up by a bucket of water and one by one i drop
them in the water one at a time to show the other ones their fate
Try organic pesticide… At Home Depot they have some just ask for the
organic killer
Oh heck no! the have a green goo that comes out of them. Nasty! thanks for
watching and commenting. ~ Devin Hunter
He said I will eliminate you lol
you should put up a sign that says no “Tomatoe Horn Worms!”
Well that could of been a dumb question. But to be sure, they may appear
every year. I started having tomato worms today.
ohh i knew that (not)
Put coffee ground around the plant! It works! I found 7 on my tomato plant
once.
The fly or moth that lays the eggs…lays them on the soill. I found a
bunch of babies and red eggs in my tomato soil and bell pepper soil
@mudgehannah18 thank you! -Devin BBO
@badboyorganics yeah but I think the video would get a lot of hits ,
there’s a lot of people into seeing nasty bugs get squished, the vids are
all over You Tube. , and to me it makes more sense than cutting them in
half.
Well you’re in summer right? When it’s warmer transpiration occurs much more rapidly so the plants require much more water, also if they’re producing fruit at the moment then they will be using up allot of the plants water.
How badly do they wilt? Do they recover overnight if you don’t water? Then it’s just the heat. If the ground is plenty moist, and they still wilt, you can try just spraying the plants enough to wet the leaves to give them some relief and cool them off. Often, this will perk them back up without soaking the ground too much.
If you have overwatered them, then they will have lost some of their root hairs from being too wet, and then they can’t take in as much water until they grow new ones. So the tops wilt. This is where the “rescue watering” above is helpful. I have to do this when we have had lots of rain for a couple of days, and then the next warm, dry day, stuff is all droopy, even thought the soil is still wet. The excess water has killed off some of the root hairs, and I have to mist everything until they recover.
If you don’t think this is the case, make sure you are watering deeply, not just at the surface. It can sometimes take a lot more water than you expect.
If you’re watering deeply enough, then it’s apparently getting very, very, very hot where you are. They shouldn’t wilt at temperatures up to 100 degrees F if soil moisture is sufficient. It sounds more like you’re not watering deeply enough. They need at least an inch, preferably more, of water weekly in clay or loamy soil, and every 4-5 days if the soil is very sandy. This will penetrate the soil to a depth of about a foot, and encourages roots to grow deep. More frequent, lighter watering encourages shallow rooting. To measure, place a straight-sided container beside them, and water until there’s an inch or more of water in it.
Mulching will also help hold moisture in the soil. You can use layers of newspaper, straw, plastic, etc. Hope this helps…