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Question by dmd42007: One of my tomato plants doesn’t look like it’s doing as well as the others, should I replace it?
Basically, I bought 2 roma tomato plants (as well as 2 beefsteak and 1 cherry) and 1 of them doesn’t seem to be thriving as well as the others. It doesn’t look like it’s dying it just looks rather weak and is kind of growing crooked compared to the others. Is there a cause for this? Should I replace it or wait and see what happens?
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Answer by Granny
It is early in the season. Just keep watching it. It may grow slower and end up providing you with late season tomatoes, when the other plants are done bearing.
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water it everyday, make sure it is in partial shade, and use Miracle grow for tomatoes. It will be fine. Place a tomatoe cage around it.
Pull the plant. Check the roots. Spray them with water. Check for root maggots. Get rid of any bugs on the roots. Re-pot the plant using sterile potting soil. Beef up the potting soil with Espoma plant tone, bone meal and a dash of wood ash. Feed weekly with watered down fish ferlizer and occasionally put a 1/2 teaspoon of epsom salts in the water with the fish fertilizer and water the plant. Foliar feed with this same mix. Comfrey tea works as a booster also. Check for bugs on the leaves. Look at the underside of the leaves. Spray with neem oil weekly for bugs and other leaf disorders.
It sounds like a runt. If you wanna keep it, try staking it and give it some weak-strength nitrogen fertilizer. Could also try fish emulsion.
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