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Question by vagirlhi: Tomato plant question?
I live in a condo, so do not have my yellow tomato plants in the ground, but have them in huge containers with drainage on my patio. I planted them in Miracle Gro about a month ago which should feed them for 3 months. They thrived in the beginning, but the last week or so I have noticed a change. We have been getting a lot of rain off and on, so I don’t know if lack of sunshine is the issue (the rain doesn’t generally get on my plants b/c the balcony above). The first thing I noticed was some of the bigger leaves getting lighter. They are not yellow, but kind of a yellow green with the veins in the leaves darker green. Some of them seem almost dry at the edges. A couple days after I noticed that, some of the other smaller leaves started looking wilty. I try to judge the moisture level each day and water when necessary. There are no spots on the leaves, no bugs in site, and they are still growing. Ideas?
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Answer by bugear001
Most likely they are in need of SUN!!!! They need 6-8 hours a day of direct sun light. Other than that, they are probably OK.
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ewwwwwwwwwwww so gross, yuck so disgusting. Now makes me wonder if i want
to continue with my tomato plant
Yikes!!
do they bite ?? becuse u seem scarded to hold them on ur hand ?
Nasty little buggers, they decimated my bushels
Dang those things are huge!!! 😮
check your plants at least twice a day and keep an eye out for any slight
damage to prevent this kind of extensive damage
Hey the survival guys eat these things.Kids like to play with them and they
make good fish bait too.
They turn into a Sphynx Moth……I toss em to my chickens and they gobble
em up!
ewwww.
Since you have them in pots, instead of the ground, they might be root bound. Tomatos have huge root systems. Also, if this isn’t the case, all this rain might have given the plants root rot. This is bad, and will lead to a dead plant. What I would do, and this is drastic, but may save your plants, is to repot them in fresh soil. If you haven’t moved them, then I don’t think it has anything to do with the sun light. Hope they make it!!!
Well using the miracle grow soil is probably not enough nitrogen in the soil because when in pots nitrogen depletes very quickly. If you have any room in the pots left top them off with home made compost if possible and i would use a fish mix or coffee grounds (free at starbucks) until plants start flowering more. Then use an organic bloom fertilizer fox farm makes a great one. Sun is also extremely important to tomatoes the more the better, try using reflectors to improve your sun light. Determinate strains also grow far better in pots find out if your plants are indeterminate or determinate. Hope this helps.