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| Hello I am very new to this, this is my very first year growing tomatoes. I have read through the post and I am not really seeing what I have. So I am sorry if it has already been asked. We started with three tomato plants and all had this same look to them. The leaf will start to turn yellow and then the edge of that leaf will turn brown. Not brown spots on the leaf. It start on the cherry tomato plant and I started picking off those leafs but it would still move to other leafs (on the same leaf branch) so I started picking off those leaf branches and before long I had no leaf branches left. We got maybe 20 cherry tomatoes from that plant, which to me is nothing. Now that plant has nothing growing on it at all. This is our third and last tomato plant and I am hoping to save this one. It is starting to do the same thing so not sure if I should pick the leafs or not. This tomato plant is called a mortgage lifter heirloom. All three of our plants weren't planted until the third week of June, we weren't sure if we were going to try it this year. They are on our balcony/deck in a 25quart bucket (6 gallon) and get sun from 11am to 5pm and then partly shady until the sun goes down. I have been watering them daily but not heavily, and of course if it is raining I don't. Which we have had a lot of rain this summer. I have feed them 3 times since the two weeks after planting them (third week of June) We did have a problem with the green hornworm at the beginning but I hand picked all 12 from the three plants and I havent seen them again. Thanks for any help you can give me. |
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- Posted by Antoniad2002 none (My Page) on Sat, Aug 10, 13 at 11:03
| Here is also and picture of the whole plant |
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| Looks like yellow from over watering and lanky from not enough sun. Probably could use a feeding also, but that's the least of the problems. |
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- Posted by Antoniad2002 none (My Page) on Sat, Aug 10, 13 at 15:10
| Ok thanks so much. I will move them and hold off on the watering to see if this helps. And plus give them some food. Thanks!!! |
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| Over watering is a problem in CONTAINER gardening. Actually in hot weather you have no choice, especially it the container is small. As a consequence, the nutrient are flushed out every time that you water (more than should). For this reason, in container gardening you have to fertilize all the time. Some gardeners water their container plants with 1/4 to 1/3 strength ( add fertilizer to watering can). You do this every other time or atl east once a week. OTHERWISE, with a well drained potting media watering itsely is not the problem. AS long as the lost nutriens are replenished. |
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- Posted by Donna.in.Sask 2b (My Page) on Sat, Aug 10, 13 at 16:28
| You have at least six individual plants in a pot that can support two at best. Did you buy at the end of season, when they have been growing in their cell packs for a little too long and are already on the decline? In my experience, they never recover from their less than ideal start. |
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| Good catch Donna. Yes, 1 plant maximim in a container that size. Usually a 10 gallon container is recommended per plant. |
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