Tomato and pepper plants wilting..

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Posted by ab2008 6 (My Page) on

Mon, May 20, 13 at 18:59

This was taken after I pulled up one of the pretty wilting plants to see if I could see what was going on.

This is one of the tomatoes, but I do have about 4 pepper plants that have done the same. Notice how the plant narrows just before it gets to ground level above the roots? Is this the act of any insects? Or could it be too much moisture? We have had a lot of rain the last couple of days and I just wonder if that's the culprit? Or perhaps today is normal than average after a few days of nothing but cloud cover and such?

I'm kind of at a loss for words because just a day or two ago most of these plants looked perfectly fine. They have been in the ground well over a couple of weeks now.

Most of the larger tomato plants look fine, this one was one of the smaller ones. Just seems odd...

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Posted by edweather Zone 5a/b Central NY (My Page) on
Mon, May 20, 13 at 19:25

My experience with too much rain/water with tomato plants is that they don't wilt. When mine drowned they just became stunted and didn't grow. Sometime the leaves will turn yellow with too much watering. Yours is probably something else, but I can't say what. You're right, the lower part of the main stalk near the roots is poor looking. maybe someone else will be able to narrow it down a little better.

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