Pruned off all the dead leaves, and I’m left with bare vines and a lion’s tail of leaves. I know I didn’t do a good job keeping up with harvesting, feeding, and maintenance pruning (is that even a thing?). What effect does that have and what else did I do wrong?
by lundypup2020
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I think you answered your own question man
Tomato plants die. They just do. Harvest the fruit because that’s the point of growing them, or don’t plant them in the first place.
Those cages are awesome, where did you get them from?
Just saw someone’s post who experimented “pruning suckers” and how it affected yield. The ones that were pruned had significantly less yield.
I’ve seen maters that were naturally tall but imo if the plants are so tall from pruning that I need a ladder, then I pruned too much. I’d rather have a bushy, sprawling plant than a lanky one.
That container looks a bit small like it could overheat and dry out .
Use containers with more volume and possibly mulch the top to moderate temperature and evaporation . Watch your feeding , they don’t need too much nitrogen one smestablished and fruiting I change my ratio up ti increase blooms . Check your ph next year add lime if necessary . I always add bone meal under each new planting in addition to mixing in the soil for the season and plant food with beneficial microbes .. Keep ripe tomatoes picked if not a chemical signals are sent to the plant to die . The plants looked stressed and it is late in . the season
I mean, I see a lot of ripe tomatoes ?
Harvesting, feeding, and maintenance pruning
Nothing. Looks perfectly healthy other than some sunburn
r/tomatoecirclejerk
Why are those plants loaded with ripe fruit? Pick them and eat them. I’d start with that
I’m new to growing tomatoes but mine look like they’ve been beaten up. The tomatoes are still doing great, ripening, taste lovely. The tomato plants, however, are scraggly af.
Pruned to death.
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You over pruned, but the end of the season is coming soon so it doesn’t really matter.
Pick the tomatoes that already have color to it–it’ll continue to ripen. The rest will ripen just fine.
You haven’t eaten enough tasty ripe tomatoes if that many are still on the vines.
I don’t know how hot it was over the summer or how much you had to water them, but here in the north suburbs of Chicago early August was very hot and dry so we had to do a lot of watering. That leached a lot of nutrients out of the soil in our tomatoes that were in containers and their foliage was affected. If you weren’t feeding them regularly it could have the same effect in those raised beds which is why your foliage was damaged. Our in-ground plants did much better than the container ones.
My potted Sun Gold looks pretty similar at this point. Lots of new growth at the top, with the lower vines all barren, after I’ve pulled off everything crispy and brown. It probably would have done a little better if I were keeping up with the fertilizing every two weeks, or if I had them in the ground. But it’s okay. It’s just the late season.
When the weather starts cooling off in a few months, I’ll take some cuttings and put them in little pots to overwinter indoors.
I don’t see anything wrong, looks like a tomato plant towards the end of the season that just got heavily pruned. If anything I think you did a great job, those plants are loaded with tomatoes
You did the thing lol
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All of those tomatoes are ready to pick yesterday
I know it could have probably been better, but I see a lot of nice tomatoes I would love to eat 🍅
My mom’s garden didn’t grow almost anything this year. it’s usually like an endless flow of vegetables and fruits that we eventually have to start eating like maniacs(mostly me eating tomatoes and BLTs 5 times a day lol) or preserving them, so I wish this happened lol. We did finally get mulberries from the trees we planted and replanted from the one we had when I was a kid but I look forward to fresh tomatoes all year and don’t really eat them from the store, definitely not plain or on a BLT. Not one tomato 🍅 I almost cried eating my friends garden tomato with some salt and pepper last week.
Next year I am going to start my own garden so this never happens again. I’m thinking a tall setup like this, so I’ll be back to this sub for sure. Good luck next year!
Looks like you have blight
you let your tomatoes die
Those plants still look pretty healthy. Lots of fruit and an OK amount of leaves still. If I was going to take a guess, I’d say that the plants either dried out from heat or didn’t have enough water. If the plants get too dry they preserve new growth at the expense of the lower leaves.
The amount of fruit still left is insane. You should make them into something more prone to long-term storage like ketchup or pasta sauce, and can it.
Please tell me what the dusky brown/red cherry tomatoes in the middle photo are.