Tomatoes are just not ripening correctly.... and the leaves are dying off... never saw that before

Man....so sorry...you MUST bring them in whenever ICE speaks.

He is a guru, see, and even his breath has the power to create or destroy.


Now delete THAT ICE ya lying pos.

I get no Tomatos since 2-3 Years,
no one is getting more than a Handful,
only the Tomatos from/ or in the Greenhouse working well!

Do you saw already: "Why in the World are they spraying"?
There is a Explanation inside for this Prob,
but it is also strange
because we have no massive Chem/Contrails here in Tokyo!

I tried this Year (2012) even some Seeds from my old Portuguese Stock
(they grow for Generations)
they start to grow, even have Blossoms but no Fruits!

Edit: Tomato Problem started before the Melt Down of F'Shima!



Last Edited by the mighty Atom on 08/20/2012 10:05 PM

Stop watering your tomatoes. Unless your live in a desert and are facing triple digit temperatures, tomatoes should not be watered every day.

Let the plants get a little dry, let them get worried and scared that they are going to dry up and die. Then they will start to ripen.

Start abusing and neglecting those tomato plants, or your never going to get any tomatoes.

Dozo o kudasai, please watch, explanation of the Tomato-Genocide is inside:



Last Edited by the mighty Atom on 08/20/2012 10:08 PM

My tomatoes are just fine.


Start pullin' lower leaves and top every growing vine at this point in the season.


Just go gang busters on them plants, mine right now have barely any leaves left just vine and ripening fruit.

bring 'em in

it's called a severe drought. my tomatoes plants did the same thing. I watered them everyday but they just rotted on the vine. they need at least one inch of rain per week which i gave to no prevail

bring 'em in

Thanks. Gonna go outside and degrade mine now. Tell them what worthless cherry tomato making pos's the are. Can only help mine

Watch it OP, folks in these parts don't cotton to well to tomato false alarms.

I have tomato plants that are loaded with tomatoes, that I have only watered once. We haven't had more than a couple of sprinkles of rain here since sine June, but they have deep roots and lots of natural compost in the soil.

People baby their tomatoes too much. They truth is that they like abuse.

Monsantos Tomato is growing normal because they are protected,
the old Plants, "the normal ones" didn't grow,
at least in my Experience!

Last Edited by the mighty Atom on 08/20/2012 10:19 PM

He's popped up again causing you grief? I thought all the ICE collateral was spent after the well blowout.

It was hot for tomatoes too. I think that stunted the cycle. The plants are taking a longer time to ripen and then produce more fruit. Conserving energy. 95+ and less rain is tough on them. Those temps have passed for us here but the growht pattern seems to have been set. I've got some cherry tomatoes that are real happy though. Smaller fruit? Also though, some plants that came up on their own in soil taken directly from the compost pile are dark green and bushy with a decent amount of fruit for coming up later than the starts. Whatever it is, I believe heat and lack of moisture was also pushing the limits of what the soil had in it.

I'm going heavy on the compost this fall.

+1 on the compost.

It's called heat stress. Cover them with a net next time or grow them under partial cover of tree's.

every single one of my hand started tomatoes died this year when I put them outside to harden before transplanting. Ditto my squash plants. I planted over 20 packages of flower seeds, which never came up. Not even one seedling out of 4 large packages of cosmos for example. My natural wild sunflowers produced a small showing and are undersizes, not much natural feed for the birds this year and they are dying too. Something is very very wrong. I AM an experienced gardner.

I have 4 healthy plants with more than 35 tomatoes. But they are all green. I can't get one to turn, some are bigger than my fist too, but green.? I dunno what to do, up here its getting cooler too.

My parents threw our tomato plants out too, they were getting all deadish but was thinking that could have been solved by cutting the dead parts off and continuing to care for it. Probably because of the hotter weather though. Or at least for us, it was pretty hot when ours were thrown out.

Fusarium wilt! Too late to bring them in. Best to just burn them at the stake.

It's called blight. It can come in overnight and destroy your crop. We had that happen 2 years ago. Now I spray with a fungicide beginning about the end of July - beginning of August. I live in Zone 3.

Which part of the country do you live? I'm noticing strange things as well (Canadian prairies).

The next time you have a ripe tomato, cut off the top and toss it under your tomato plants. The ripe tomato gives off a chemical which helps the other tomatoes turn ripe.

Will do, thank you!

Anything for a fellow gardener...