So I have tried growing sara's galapagos tomatoes for the first time this year. I grew them from seed, and all of my other tomatoes have been doing very well - which is very exciting. These guys are turning yellow, stunted and one looks nearly dead. The largest one is setting fruit, but i am not sure if it will make it given its sad looking health. I'd love to do whatever I can to save this one with little baby buds!!!

This one that I will attach a photo of is in a container, and the other containers tomatoes receiving the same sun, wind, fertilizer and water are doing just wonderfully.

I have been giving it a kelp fertilizer (diluted, every few waterings), and while planting have amended the soil-less potting mix with rock dust, mycorrhizae, and an organic pelleted fertilizer.

Look at the lusty plants in thel ink. I grew it many times both for my SSE listings as well as my annual seed offers elsewhere. no problems

I'll let others address your sickly looking yellow leaved plants since I know it has nothing to do with the variety.

Since you did say that your other varieties in containers are doing well, I'm asking if you purchased the seeds, if so where from if you aee comfortable with that, or received in a trade. And I ask b'c there's always the possiblity of seed borne diseases.

it might interest some here to know that when Amy got back to the US she sent me the actual fruits, I don't know how she got them past customs. I felt I had time to get them planted for that season, no time to process seeds, so just took the seeds out of the fruits and got about 100% germination.

Any questions, here I am.

Carolyn, just went back and read again, What size is that red bucket and is it the same size you're using for the plants you showed otherwise, Maybe too small, and also asking about so much fertilizer as well

Of the seeds that germinated, about 2/3 of the seedlings died before planting out. Only 4 made it to plant out, one died within a week, 2 are nearly dead, and the best looking one is the plant in the photo.

I have about 10 plants in 5 gallon pails (the size of the sara's plant is in), and about 5 plants in 15 gallon pails. All of the plants (except sara's) are growing like crazy, are a lush dark green and are getting packed with fruit.

It must be a seed disease. The other tomato seeds that I got from the tomato blogger have grown into big healthy plants, so it must be just this one.

I shouldn't have blamed the variety. :) Thank you carolyn for saving these seeds. I hope to get to try a ripe one!!

I was assuming it was the variety because every other tomato variety is rockin' it.

The container is a 5 gall bucket, which is not a problem at this point unless it does not have drainage holes or the holes are clogged.

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Hard to say it's N deficiency when the plants are getting Kelp at every watering and pelleted fertilizer as well, I don't know what that's composed of, but I agree that the picture of Sara shows very wet mix and nor do I know how often they are being watered, so perhaps too much water for only a 5 gal container and if no drainage that's a problems as well. Which may explain all the yellow leaves,

Sara forms a very large rampant plant in my experience and would not be happy happy if kept in only a 5 gal pail but it looks too big to transfer at this point IMO.

Carolyn

I had just watered the plant before taking the photo - I only water when the soil mix is dry as far as my finger will go into the soil. My other container tomatoes are much larger and a dark saturated green colour, with lots of tomatoes.

It must be some sort disease of these seeds - i'll try to get sara's galapagos from another seller for next season.

Thank you everyone for your help!