I’m thinking i can leave it as is since it’s still developing a lot of new growth. But what caused this? Did I not plant it deep enough? Is it diseased? I appreciate any advice! I have several others of these and they are standing up just fine.
Sweet 100 cherry tomato transplant (about 2 weeks ago planted)
Water thoroughly 1x per day
Full sun
by Global_Particular461
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If you cover the bend in the soil it will grow more roots!
Cut off all the branches with leaves that are touching the ground then bury that bend and stake it.
Either bury it that way or stake it upright.
It needs to be tied to a stake or placed in a tomato cage if you want it to grow upright.
Otherwise they sprawl along the ground.
The plant will do fine sprawling, but they take up more space that way and you will lose any tomatoes to rot that form against the ground.
Generally speaking, the best way to grow tomatoes is in cages (those cone shaped wire contraptions that start small and get bigger at the top.) Tomatoes like to vine and climb, so putting them in cages gives them somewhere to go and gets the fruit up off the ground.
Thanks everyone for all the help! You all are the best❤️ I’ll plant to remove the leaves touching the ground and bury the stem that is on the ground!
And also, I will use a cage! It’s not very visible but I actually do have one on this plant, but it’s so big the baby hasn’t reached the bottom rung of it yet lol. (I grew this breed last year and they are MONSTERS hence the gigantic cages haha)
while it is better to grow upright, tomatoes are vining plants and that is how they grow. But better results with the fruit if it is growing staked. However, as a point here, tomato plants are far more resilient than some make them out to be. We had some volunteer tomatoes pop up in a bed we had rotated to spring crops last year. We literally ignored them. They were lying all over, hanging over the side, we never once watered them at all here in MO with a long, hot, mostly dry summer. Still got a number of big, nice tomatoes off of them 🙂 We had an opossum get into our garden a lot last year and they tend to only eat ripe tomatoes, so we left those to try to keep them out of the others a bit, otherwise we would have picked a good number more off those 2 plants.
I left mine. You want to pick up fruiting locations so they don’t rot. Leaves shouldn’t be left in the ground either
These tomatoes need to be staked. Tomatoes don’t stand up on their own.