Paul Robeson looking less than perky. Does this look like wilt disease to you?
It just started showing these signs without any apparent cause ( pesticide, uneven watering , etc. ). All the others are looking fine for now. Would you wait, or pull it? 9a, southern US
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CitrusBelt
Disease would certainly be a good bet, but wouldn’t hurt to first make sure there isn’t a physical reason…..e.g. gopher ate roots, broken sprinkler pipe drowning roots, that sort of thing.
(I’ve had plants mysteriously wilt overnight in the past — weird, because fusarium/verticilium/etc. just aren’t really an issue where I am — only to discover that a goddamn gopher came in from 20′ + away without making any visible mounds in between the neighbor’s yard & my tomato patch!)
But yeah, if you’re confident that nothing has physically messed up the roots (or main stem), best to cull the plant immediately. Especially in your part of the country. Or at least, I would.
ASecularBuddhist
To me that looks like a gopher ate the bottom of the plant. Can you pull it out of the ground easily?
That happened to me last year and I continued to water it. And after sometime, it grew back.
CobraPuts
No reason to pull it, there’s no sign of disease. Sometimes tomatoes droop, just be patient and don’t under or over water it to compensate
False-Can-6608
My Paul Robeson did this exact same thing last year. I put it in a bucket of water and it just couldn’t take up water anymore. I think mine had bacterial wilt or southern bacterial wilt. I’ve tried to grow Paul twice…still haven’t tasted one. I didn’t try it again this year. GA, zone 8a I think.
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Disease would certainly be a good bet, but wouldn’t hurt to first make sure there isn’t a physical reason…..e.g. gopher ate roots, broken sprinkler pipe drowning roots, that sort of thing.
(I’ve had plants mysteriously wilt overnight in the past — weird, because fusarium/verticilium/etc. just aren’t really an issue where I am — only to discover that a goddamn gopher came in from 20′ + away without making any visible mounds in between the neighbor’s yard & my tomato patch!)
But yeah, if you’re confident that nothing has physically messed up the roots (or main stem), best to cull the plant immediately. Especially in your part of the country. Or at least, I would.
To me that looks like a gopher ate the bottom of the plant. Can you pull it out of the ground easily?
That happened to me last year and I continued to water it. And after sometime, it grew back.
No reason to pull it, there’s no sign of disease. Sometimes tomatoes droop, just be patient and don’t under or over water it to compensate
My Paul Robeson did this exact same thing last year. I put it in a bucket of water and it just couldn’t take up water anymore. I think mine had bacterial wilt or southern bacterial wilt.
I’ve tried to grow Paul twice…still haven’t tasted one. I didn’t try it again this year.
GA, zone 8a I think.