Need Tomato Plant Help!?

Question

I have 4 tomato plants, each in its own planter. Each get the same amount of sun and water, and the soil used for each is the same. Three are doing fine, but one is very wilty and the plant isn't as green as the others. Can anyone offer any help? The plant has a small tomato that is already getting red, but the plant looks like it's dying.

Answer 1

If you used regular soil from the garden, you could be seeing damage from a cut worm. These evil critters circle the stems of plants and saw them in half. It may be that your plant is only partially damaged.

You might try uprooting it, cutting off all the bottom leaves and suckers, and then replanting as deep into the ground as you can. Roots will form rather quickly all along the buried stem. It sounds like the plant is not taking up enough water or nutrients. Good luck.

Answer 2

It is most likley tomato early blight. Although most plants are resistant to this, nothing is 100%. There is no cure for this and it is very easliy transfered from one to the other.
Blight is a fungi, with tiny spores, it can live in soil from previous years , and in debri. I would suggest you get rid of this one right away. through it and the soil in the dumpster, wash your hands well before working with other plants. If you decide to use your pot again you need to sterilize with a bleach and water solution, and let it dry in the sun for several days. The blight causes to the plant to always look like it is burning up, thirsty,stunted, and it may produce a fruit or two but always it will die.
It could have already had the spores on the plant when you purchased it or your pot or soil could have been the carrier. The tomato is in the night shade family and any weeds that are in that same family can also carry the blight. such as black night shade, husk toamto, and jerusalem cherry. Be sure and give your plants plenty of room for the air to circulate around them.
I also would start protecting your other plants right away! You can buy a fungacide for tomatoes at any garden center or if they are completey healthy you can make your own..........2 teaspoons of baking soda in a spray bottle of water. Spray every other day getting all sides and do it early enough in the day that the plants will not be scorched by the heat of the day and that there is not any moisture left on your plant by nightfall.
God Bless
Grandma

Answer 3

It could be something like a blight or an insect that is working on it. You want to make sure to use potting soil instead of garden soil for potted plants. You may want to look at the leaves and see if they have holes in them. It could be from something like a Japanese beetle eating on them. If the leaves have yellow and brown spots on them, it could be a blight. One thing I found out is that you don't want to smoke around tomatoes. Tobacco has a couple of blights that tomatoes can get from it. If it is Japanese beetles, use Seven Dust. If it is a blight, Ortho makes some pretty good treatments for plant blights and I'd look in your local garden center. Also, if you over-watered, even one time, it can cause the roots of a plant to rot or die. Overwatering and underwatering is easy to do with a potted plant. That one plant may need more water than the others if it is wilting. Potted soil dries out quicker than garden soil it also can be overwatered more easily than garden soil because the soil is contained. So the watering has to be monitored more closely.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

pour more water and some fertilizers