Posted: 5/23/2010 4:54:20 AM EDT
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Okay frost are done and my garden is out. Its been out since last sunday. I must have put out too much fertilizer 12/12/12 as my tomatoes are on the ground. I watered them and they got back up then we got a rain and they are back down. Should I pull and replace or let them work there way out of it. They are still alive but look very sick.
I did this a few years ago using 28% and they grew out of it but when I pulled them in the fall and looked at them they had bad scars near the roots. Chinook3 |
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Are the ends of the leaves looking yellow/brown/burned? That would suggest too much fertilizer.
I don't think I'd pull 'em just yet. If the problem is too much fertilizer, you can't replant right away anyway. How many plants do you have in? I might consider picking up a fresh "test plant." Pull the sickliest of your existing plants and replant the test plant in that spot. See what happens. If that plant withers and yellows and you do decide you overfertilized, pull everything, water heavily over a period of a couple weeks then replant. FWIW, my experience with Romas is that plants that take an early hit such as this never end up being as productive as plants that grow uneventfully. They'll produce, but they won't produce as well and they'll be more susceptible to other diseases later. YMMV. Good luck. 
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What size were they when you put them in the ground? Do they simply need tying up? Reckon the rain weighed them down?
What type of tomatos? Are they spindly looking or do they have a decent size trunk. Some maters like cherry and other running vine types always fall over no matter how you tie them up. Romas grow so screwy I normally wait until they tell me where to tie them. Like Master Feral said, you should see some type of discoloration if they did in fact receive too much fert. I'd give another week and then make a decision. Rain washes most over fert problems away if they can make it through the initial kick in the butt....er roots. |