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Should i toss these tomato plants

dancindufasdancindufas Posts: 60
in Fruit & veg
Hello gardening guru's. What do you make of my tomato plants ? Will they recover and produce fruit or should i just get rid of them now? I'm not sure if its a watering issue or some dreaded fungal disease but after returning from my week away 3 of my plants have aged 100 years🤷‍♀️😱 i did have a very responsible neighbour water them daily and not all plants like this so looking for some advice please. 

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  • dancindufasdancindufas Posts: 60

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It doesn't look like blight and there is no brown on the stems. They look sunburnt to me. Was the GH ventilated? Has it been very hot? Maybe they were thirsty, did the neighbour give them enough? It is better to give them a proper watering every 3 days than a sprinkle every day.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I was thinking lack of water and sunburn too.
  • dancindufasdancindufas Posts: 60
    Thank you I'll hold onto them and see what happens. I think my greenhouse does get quite hot so maybe a ventilation issue with me bit being here to keep the door open.  Good to know you guys don't think anything nasty. Thanks for the advice x 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Even on not very warm days, a greenhouse can get extremely hot. Ventilation is really important. 
    I think they'll be ok. A few days of watering, air, and they should perk up. You can remove the dead foliage too. As already said, a good drink and then left for a few days, is far more beneficial than a tiny drink every day.
    The plants are already flowering, so you should get fruit from them no problem  :)
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have greenhouse shading up and it still gets hot but no direct sun on them, the one that’s already dead is in a far too small pot. Can’t tell what size those black  pots are but they need big pots or in the ground.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited July 2019
    Agree, looks like heat/drought damage which occurred a while ago, as the tops look to be growing fine now.  I would remove the damaged leaves as they are not providing anything useful to the plants now and are a potential source of infection.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    Had the foliage been watered ?
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