These assholes have it good, and you’re telling me that half my plant is gonna have crunchy leaves from not enough water while half are wilty due to too much?
Pictured is my prized “seedling”-WHO WAS PERKY AN HOUR AGAO-has the audacity to look terrorized for putting him outside for an hour today to start acclimating to outside 🙄 As if he hasn’t gotten preferential treatment from the start.
Quite dramatic if you ask me
My peppers and leeks aren’t doing this. BUT MY TOMATOES?! The problem children for sure
by NoSpoonsOnlyKnives9
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Don’t take it personally-tomatos really are dramatic.
Love your plants, and they will love you.
Academy Award worthy!
An hour in the full sun for the first time out is too much. Even overcast sun is way stronger than your grow lights, you really do need to baby step it. This guy will recover.
Hardening off should be slower. My SO starts with 15 mi. Then 30 for a couple days. Then an hour. Then 90 min. Two hours. Etc. Still lost some.
I would back off to 30 min tomorrow.
Hardening off sucks so much. But gradual is key.
Dramatic ass tomatoes being all dramatic and shit.
I, too, have dramatic tomatoes! My peppers can take anything I throw at them; my tomatoes’ demands would put a diva’s Green Room list to shame.
I just grow my tomatoes outside, starting as seeds. The ones that make it, make it. The ones that dont, dont.
For me it’s my cucumbers. 🫠 My tomatoes are more or less fine!
Over the years, I’ve learned gardening is a roller coaster. So it’s best to just roll with it, in my opinion, at least.
every year, it’s part of the experience
I just had a cutworm almost take one of my babies. Tomato plants are hella strong plants😅. The plant that almost got taken by a cutworm is doing ok as we speak.
Yep! This is the first year I’ve started tomatoes indoors. We used to direct sow them and they were always gorgeous with big, beautiful fruits. After this year, I’m never starting them indoors again and I’m sticking with what I know. They’re such babies
Tomato’s seem to be the only thing that go nuts for me but I grow them outside. I don’t even know what to do with all of them. They kept growing INTO winter…wild lil dudes
Every damn year.
You’ve clearly given it too much love and affection. My tomatoes thrive in neglect.
Tomatoes are the cats of the gardening world!
Yes mine is 2 months old and still barely 8″ tall
I have a pepper plant that keeps side eyeing me when im watering. Damn creeper reaper
Tomato plants are the Husky’s of the plant world.
I love planting tomatoes and basil together because they’re great companion plants and also both dramatic AF.
Mine are dramatic too! They really like being in the most prominent raised bed because the six plants I put there are huge and covered in flowers, the ones that I planted in the least visible from the road planter are wimpy, droopy, and making me look bad. Same exact water. Same exact light exposure. Spoiled rotten brats. Don’t even get me started on the lemon trees.
My purple Cherokee randomly unalived itself this week with 7-8 nice half developed tomatoes on it.. I could cry.
I personally feel victimized you’ve left the poor thing in a pot that small….
I started with 24 tomato seeds that sprouted. I now have 5 to go outside. My plan worked.
Mine are growing so slow.
Started 96 tomatoes in 2 inch soil blocks with good mix on 03/16, on heat mats. Germination was going soooooooo slow. Literally at like 50%.
Said screw it, started 49 more 10 days later with whatever soil I had and left them in the floor and forgot about them and left the dome on for a week. Was at about 90% germination and these little fuckers are twice as big as the first ones I started. Divas.
Tomatoes are such drama llamas.
I don’t think this plant have enough space in that pot
When trying to grows tomatoes make sure you grow it outdoors in wet soil tomatoes are sensitive plants I they really want extra space because the root of the plant grows up to 2 meters if I remember
Tomatoes do be dramatic, but at the same time they are the most nonchalant plants about being uprooted and replanted. I don’t understand them.
Yessss I grew a few strong tomato starts, went to transplant them to bigger pots and they all shriveled up and died within like two hours. I am so sad.
*raises hand*
I’m doing my own starts for the first time this year. I used a fan for a bit to help keep them strong. Then they all slowly fell over as I started hardening them off outside. It was probably a bit cold for them. They seem to be doing a bit better now, but some of them have stems that look a bit S shaped after falling over. I figure I’ll be burying the stem pretty deep anyway so it probably won’t matter? I guess I find out?