I have 2 Cherokee Purple and 3 Arkansas Traveler tomato plants that have, in the last week, started to go bronze-colored. The stems and the leaves are darkening, and the leaves are curling a bit and getting... tougher? almost rubbery.
There don't appear to be any bugs on... no aphids or...
I have Cherokee Purples in for the first time also.
One of them has decided to set a bazillion blossoms in one wee area. I don't know what happened... Siamese twin suckers? The topmost blossom was a big fat mutant double, until it went brown and crunchy and fell off. The rest are hanging...
There were some spare wrought-iron window bars in the garage of the house I bought. I tucked one end into the bed edge, and leaned the other against the fence. It's trellising cukes now... they needed some help at first to wrap their fingers around the thicker framework, but now they're...
This is a question I've had for a while, now...
Can you remove some suckers, root those, and grow a new plant? Or is the "clone" the same "age" as the Parent Plant (do tomato plants age? do they have a lifespan independent of seasonal conditions?)
I know you need a growth tip to do so...
If it had just been new growth that wilted, I'd've kept the plant. EVERY leaf was hanging like wet tissue, for 6 days. :(
I was worried it might be a virus (which one, I don't know... there didn't appear to be any discoloration beyond the odd burned spot from watering in the sun), and was...