Questions tagged [tomatoes]
Edible red fruit, cultivar of *Solanum lycopersicum*
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Deer issues with my cherry tomatoes
I planted Cherry tomatoes in my garden and the plant grew perfectly. However, I live in a deer infested state and all my cherry tomatoes have been eaten by deer for the past two years. This year I am ...
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What disease is this (tomato plants)?
I got these seedlings that i re-potted. The bigger leaves get white/yellow spots and the baby leaves go dark as they sprout and wilt very fast. I have a few varieties in small containers that seem to ...
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Can I save my tomato plants?
These guys (beefsteak tomato plants) were transplanted outside two weeks ago, and aren't doing well. Their leaves are yellowed and brown. I'm not sure if they're getting too much sun or have a mold ...
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What variety is this tomato with long, milky green branches?
I planted black krim tomato seeds and one of them came out like this:
Other black krim plants are very different. This has rounded leaves, long branches and is somehow milky green color. Does anyone ...
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Tomato Sprouts is this normal?
1st time growing from seeds indoor under grow lights. I started these tomatoes seeds 7 days ago. I read about leggy plants so I had them 3-4 inches from lights. Are they suspose to look like this? I ...
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Identify brown dots on tomato plants
Can anyone can tell me what this is? Tiny brown dots on tomato leaves and dark spots on some stems.
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Adjusting recommended sunlight hours depending on region and radiation level?
I have land in India (the tropics), in the hills, on a slope from 6800 feet - 5200 ft altitude (roughly). At that lowest point there's a stream of about 10-15m across. Generally my entire land is a ...
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Tomato leaf discoloration cause?
I am growing tomatoes early this season and I noticed some individual plants from two different species having a similar slight yellow discoloration appearance in their leaves. Any reading or visual ...
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Tomato plants: together or separate and replant?
I am growing some tomato plants indoor this season. I always burry 2-3 seeds together just in case one does not sprout. Each pellet containes the exact same species of plant.
Can the tomato plants ...
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How many Gribnoe Lukoshko tomato plants are suggested for 1 person?
When speaking about plants per person you see a list of plants suggested per person, but how many Gribnoe Lukoshko tomato plants are suggested per person when wanting to ensure there's plenty for you ...
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Growing tomato's and other plants inside
I've always started the garden season late and I want to change that! I figured I could start seedlings now growing them as indoor plants until April even though it's a little early to start inside.
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Can a half broken tomato stem heal with assistance?
I have round cherry tomato plants in grow bags. Recently while shifting the position to a better one, one of the plants got snapped to 90 degrees with half of the circumference of the stem broken. I ...
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Tomato Plants indoors over the winter
Here is a picture of my tomato plants on my south facing window in the UK. I started them far too late from seed, I guess I planted them in about July. By the time winter came they weren't anywhere ...
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Why are my tomato leaves yellowing and withering?
I have two tomato plants and two peppers in a hydrocultural system, going on a month and a half. The tomatoes initially grew really fast. Two weeks or so ago they started to wither away, leaves ...
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What's the difference between stacked and trellis when supporting tomatoes?
I was reading some article that said that stacked tomatoes yield less than those supported with trellis.
I tried searching for images for stacked and trellis tomatoes, but I see the same type of ...
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Is this a tomato plant?
I personally never grow tomatoes. I'm collecting some seedlings that grow wildly from tomatoes that people throwed outside. I couldn't figure out whether that small plant on the right is a tomato or ...
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Tiny thin black bugs with white stripes on tomatoes
Anyone know what these little black bugs with white stripes on their back are? (There's a larger version — please click the picture) They seem to be all over a few of my tomato plants and multiplying, ...
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Why are my tomato plant leaves turning brown, shriveling, dying?
This has been progressive over the last 6 weeks, leaves turning dry, brown and getting very thin and shriveling like paper on a Tomato "Blue Berries" cherry tomato plant.
The closest I could guess ...
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Do tomatoes produce seeds that are true to the parent plant's characteristics?
I had an unusual tomato plant this year with off leaf formations. It seemed to fruit reasonably well despite this. If I collect and grow on seeds from this plant can I expect to see similar ...
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Are there methods to grow adventitious roots at an arbitrary point of the stem?
Tomato plants are known to grow adventitious roots. I experienced it myself when a forgotten stem lied on the soil for a while.
Now I am curious if there are methods to cultivate such roots, other ...
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Is there any way to save delayed tomato plants before temperature gets too low?
We are entering fall, with rainy conditions and daily temperatures below 20 °C, and my tomatoes, though (or because…) tall and robusts, are just starting flowering. Even if next weeks are more ...
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Do plants need to be re-hardened after being brought back inside?
I have ~2 month old bell pepper and heirloom tomato plants that have been spending the last month outdoors in full sun. Unfortunately I'm leaving on a 10-day trip, and will be keeping them watered ...
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Tomato plant after neem oil application
My tomato plants stems had mealy bugs and with in an hour of my notice I started to spray neem oil liquid soap water and the plants now looks very bad and the leaves looks very dull. Will the leaves ...
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Would a tomato plant being shaded out cause smaller tomatoes?
I'm getting sweet 100s the size of my pinkey mail, when they often get the size of my first thumb joint. Could square foot gardening, and being shaded too much by the cultivars Big Zac/Mushroom Basket ...
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Mold on tomato leaves
I've noticed these moldy, fuzzy spots on many of my tomato plants:
I figured it is some sort of a mold problem, but I couldn't find which one exactly and what to do with it. The plants are on the ...
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What are the stages of tomato splitting?
We all know tomatoes split, but what are the different stages of them splitting? can they heal from the various stages?
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What’s wrong with my tomato plant?
I transplanted my tomato plant about three weeks ago, in a pot with potting soil. There is plenty of room in the pot as well. It is outside all day and the weather here is about 75 degrees at night ...
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Why do I have brown “jelly” and rotten smell inside my healthy looking tomatoes?
I have about 30 tomato plants of several varieties, all hybrid except for one heirloom. Every single tomato plant is having the same issue but my peppers, eggplant, green beans, and cucumbers are fine ...
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What is this plant? (sweet potato?)
A long while ago, I planted what I'm pretty sure was the head of a sweet potato that started growing.
The plant is still small but growing, and it has some small fruit-beginning (all green, but one ...
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Can I safely prune/limit height of tomato plant?
My cherry tomato plants are growing beyond any expectations - plants are almost 2 m tall and they will soon reach shading net above them. Plants are healthy with a lot of new flowers on top.
Is it ...
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Chrysanthimum-based pesticide killed my young plants
Recently, a pesticide that I used to treat a number of my young plants killed everything I applied it to. I applied it in accordance with the directions, and the brand is well-reviewed on Amazon, but ...
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How can I get rid of weeds in my garden?
Obviously it is my first time gardening and I have weeds taller than my tomato, pepper, basil and mint plants. Is there any chemical I can use without hurting my plants or any solution?
Also it has ...
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Is a virus, or something else, causing my tomato leaves to become shriveled, yellow and wrinkled?
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two tomato plants - one is some kind of a plum tomato, and the other is a black tomato.
the plum tomato's seed was taken from a freshly cut plum tomato (which was bought at the ...
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Yellowing lower tomato leaves
What is wrong with these plants? I’m moving in a month so can’t put them in the ground yet. The bottom leaves are turning yellow and starting to get brown spots.
I don’t know if I’m watering too ...
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White insects on tomato plant?
There are a lot of white insects on my tomato plants Lower base stem and some on leaves I wonder they useful or should I kill them or if they bad what are they called and how to to get rid of them.
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What pest is affecting my tomato plants?
This is the fourth year I've been growing tomatoes in my garden, but this is the first time I see this pest affecting my plants. The plants have black, brown spots on yellowing leaves. On some of the ...
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Tomato Plant Bugs
Does anyone know what bugs these are? These were found on the leaves of our tomato plants.
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Dry brown stem on tomato plant
I carefully transferred this tomato from a pot because some of the leaves are starting to dry out and the stem is turning brown, and it did not seem to make a difference. So I was wondering if this is ...
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How do we deal with abnormally heavy rain?
I just started gardening this year, and we've tried a few methods to see what works best, including a straw bale garden, compost bag gardens, and a tilled field. Things were going great until about a ...
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How do I save a tomato plant that had the top broken in half?
Somehow the top of a tomato plant of mine got broken off at the top of the plant and want to try to save it. The part that broke off is still green, but don't think it will do very well on that part. ...
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resources to identify tomato plants by leaves
I've got a few tomato plant teenagers with unknown variety due to bad organisation when we were planting their seeds :)
Are you aware of any resource available to identify tomato variety by their ...
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Is this a good Cherry Tomato spacing?
As the title says, is this a good spacing for cherry tomato plants?
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What's wrong with my tomatoes?
We've had tomatoes inside started for a while now. It's been almost a month since our last problem and now we're seeing this on some of the tomatoes:
I know tomatoes look scraggly often but this ...
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Why does my tomato plant have tightly shrivelled green leaves?
I have a Tomato Grafted Stargold F1 (Yellow Cherry) growing in my greenhouse. It has been in there for several weeks and it seems to have grown taller but all the leaves are very tightly curled in.
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My six-week old tomato seedlings don't look great. Please help!
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I am growing tomatoes from seed this year for the first time. My plants are under LED lights and are about 6 weeks old. The underside of the leaves is purple and ...
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What is best to use for mulch in a garden?
I bought some natural cypress mulch for my tomatoes and then I was told not to use it because it would steal nitrogen.
What is the best mulch and is there one that you can till in after the garden is ...
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Yellowish pattern on leafs of tomato seedlings
My tomato seedlings are experiencing discolouration on the leaves. I am unsure of what this could be. Any suggestions?
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Tomato leaves look… off with lightly yellowing leaves
We have some tomatoes which look... off, slightly yellowing leaves.
Is there anything we can do differently here? Or anything really obvious?
These plants have more or less lived under grow lights ...
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Why are my tomato seedlings dying after applying ammonium sulfate?
Why are my tomato seedlings dying? They just germinated then after a week some are dying? I added compost and a little bit of ammonium sulphate in each plastic bags. They are not yet transplanted. I ...
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Can a tomato plant break by its own weight?
I have a garden with San Marzano tomato plants which began budding, but recently there was heavy rain which tilted some plants at large angles. Some are using the ground as support. My question is, ...
