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Tomato plants suddenly wilted as if not enuf water
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<blockquote data-quote="CottageFarm" data-source="post: 1251451" data-attributes="member: 16552"><p>Take a look at them 1st thing in the morning. If they bounce back overnite, its a sun/heat thing, similar to greenhouse plants that see their first full day of sun. Im guessing you haven't seen much sun the past few weeks and the plants acclimated. Sun comes out blazing, with waterlogged everything, it stresses the plants. You can tent them with shade cloth or row cover/frost blankets, or just let them re-acclimate on their own. They'll get knocked back a bit, but they will recover.</p><p> </p><p>If they don't rebound overnite, its likely that theyre just too wet. Tomatoes don't like soggy feet, and it can eventually kill them. Especially if the soil temp is also much below about 65 degrees and heavy soil. If that's the case, your best bet to save them is to remove some of the soggy soil and replace with some dry, fast draining soil, like a commercial potting mix that has perlite or vermiculite added. If you have a sandy soil, any dry soil mix would be fine.</p><p></p><p>The rapidity you describe sounds unlikely for disease, though not impossible. That said, however, with how wet its been, I would recommend a preventative fungicide to reduce that risk while they recover.</p><p></p><p>If they don't show marked improvement within 5 days, I would get some more plants as a backup plan. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CottageFarm, post: 1251451, member: 16552"] Take a look at them 1st thing in the morning. If they bounce back overnite, its a sun/heat thing, similar to greenhouse plants that see their first full day of sun. Im guessing you haven't seen much sun the past few weeks and the plants acclimated. Sun comes out blazing, with waterlogged everything, it stresses the plants. You can tent them with shade cloth or row cover/frost blankets, or just let them re-acclimate on their own. They'll get knocked back a bit, but they will recover. If they don't rebound overnite, its likely that theyre just too wet. Tomatoes don't like soggy feet, and it can eventually kill them. Especially if the soil temp is also much below about 65 degrees and heavy soil. If that's the case, your best bet to save them is to remove some of the soggy soil and replace with some dry, fast draining soil, like a commercial potting mix that has perlite or vermiculite added. If you have a sandy soil, any dry soil mix would be fine. The rapidity you describe sounds unlikely for disease, though not impossible. That said, however, with how wet its been, I would recommend a preventative fungicide to reduce that risk while they recover. If they don't show marked improvement within 5 days, I would get some more plants as a backup plan. :) [/QUOTE]
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