Why do my tomatoes crack when I bring them in the house? I don't have problems with them cracking on the vine. Only when I bring them inside. They're cherry tomatoes. I don't know if that makes a difference. I thought it might be the sudden change in temperature.
Tomatoes continue to ripen off of the vine, so if they are cracking after picking that have just ripened to that point.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/tomato-cracking.htm
This year I grew some Sweet 100's cherry tomatoes and for the first time ever. They grew 7 feet (no kidding)! They were obnoxious--what could cause this to happen? In previous years, this did not happen. Also, I had to thin the leaves frequently so te sun and air could ripen the tomatoes. Is this ok to do?
What you are seeing is normal. The expected height for Sweet100's is 8-12 feet tall. In previous years you may have grown a different variety that did not have that height potential.
Source: http://bonnieplants.com/product/super-sweet-100-tomato/
As long as you are not overzealous removing leaves I don't foresee it being a problem particularly if it did not impact your tomato yield/harvest.
I just planted two cherry tomato plants about 3 weeks ago and now they have little brown spots all over most of the leaves. What is it and should I pull them up and start over? I don't want to use pesticides. Thank you for any help you may be able to give me. Also, my bell pepper plants have white blotches on the leaves.
Make sure that you are cleaning away (and destroying) any old and dead leaves around your tomato plants. Avoid letting water stay on the leaves when you water your plants. Make sure that there is adequate air circulation between your plants to avoid mildew. You may want to make sure you are using a fertilizer that has the right amount of calcium for your tomato plants and that you're applying it correctly. Have a look at this tomato plant ailment key on this site to see which type of spot your tomato plant's leaves might have: http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/DiagnosticKeys/TomLeaf/TomLeafKey.html. You can also look at this sight for some possible treatments: http://garden.org/foodguide/browse/veggie/tomatoes_care/371.
I planted my cherry tomato plants upside down but they wilted from insufficient water the second day. They have no leaves but the stems seem strong. Will they get new leaves and produce or should I plant new ones? I realized that they were getting insufficient water due to my oversight of not wetting the potting soil thoroughly before planting. These plants are in a greenhouse in zone 5 and have been well watered every day since the leaves wilted that second day.
Given that your tomatoes have no leaves I would recommend that you feed them them with a fertilizer high in nitrogen to promote leafy growth as well as continue to keep them watered.
Before I had a chance to stake my large cherry tomato plant, the main stem broke off. Is it possible to salvage it by submerging the stem in water to grow roots? Or is there some other solution? The plant has many near ripe cherry tomatoes.
You can definitely try to splice it back together if the variety you have is more of a vine than a bush, but it won't re-root. There's no guarantee that splicing or splinting it will work, either, but it's worth trying. The tomatoes should still ripen even if the two pieces of the stem don't ever grow back together.
This article walks you through reattaching broken stems: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/reattaching-broken-stems.htm
And this article describes how to identify whether your tomato plant is one of the types where splinting, splicing and grafting are actually generally successful:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/determinate-vs-indeterminate.htm
What is eating my plants and how do I stop it? I live in Philly on the third floor of a row home. We have a deck where I started a garden. I've done this before in the city, higher up deck gardens, and everything had been fine. This time, something is eating my plants bald. One day I came home and all my morning glory leaves were gone (and some stalks). It had been there in the morning when I watered them, so it's not nocturnal. It happened to mostly all my plants except the cherry tomato plants. I put some cayenne pepper on the leaves and it seemed to deter them slightly....see attached picture. Before, that whole leave would have been gone. Please help, my little deck is so desolate without some green. Thank you!
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Neem Oil is good treatment for most pests.
Here is a link with more information.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/pesticides/neem-oil-uses.htm
I live in a townhouse community. I have a cherry tomato plant growing in a pot on my back deck. So far it has produced a couple of bunches of tomatoes. They are still small and green. 2 weeks ago our next door neighbor's house caught fire. The back end of her house was in flames and burned quite badly. My tomato plant was exposed to the intense heat from the fire and the smoke. The leaves became brown and wilted. A couple of the smaller stems look blackened. I have watered it. Some of the green has come back. I'm wondering if the plant is salvageable. Will the tomatoes be safe to eat if they do continue to grow and ripen? Or should we not if they've been exposed to such smoke? Some of the blossoms that were starting to come in died and couldn't be saved. But it looks like I have a branch that may be starting to produce new blossoms.
Trim away any dead or damaged plant material.
Give the plant a fertilizer application to help encourage new leafing.
Wait and see!