[Diana in Wisconsin]

10 Common Tomato Plant Problems and How To Fix Them

If you’re growing tomatoes you most likely encountered one or more of these common plant problems. We explain how to identify and fix them.

If you’re one of the three million people who planted a home garden this year, you’re most likely growing tomatoes. Nine out of 10 gardeners grow tomatoes, and that number would be 10 out of 10 if the holdouts would taste a fresh garden tomato and compare it to a grocery store purchase. Nothing beats the taste of a fresh home-grown tomato!

Many gardeners who grow tomatoes, however, encounter growing problems. This list of common tomato plant problems and their solutions will help you identify an issue—whether it’s just starting or already full-blown — and show you how to correct it, so you can save your tomato plants and harvest yummy tomatoes this year.

1. Blossom End Rot
2. Blossom Drop
3. Fruit Cracks
4. Sunscald
5. Poor Fruit Set
6. Catfacing
7. Leaf Roll
8. Puffiness
9. Early Blight
10. Viral Diseases

Descriptions and solutions at link:

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/common-tomato-plant-problems-28544

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[BipolarBob]

So far no problems. I have a Brandywine Orange tomato starting to ripen as the first to do so. Some of the peppers are starting to get some size - finally. And a squash will be ready to pick very soon - watching every day. Probably my most successful garden ever.
Usually I'm fighting Blossom End Rot or horn worms. I save all of my egg shells throughout the year and crush them into the fall and spring every year and bury them in the garden. Perhaps that warded off Blossom End Rot.

[NautiNurse]

Be good to your tomato seedlings, and they will be good to you. Calcium/Dolomite mixed into the soil at planting. Water at consistent intervals. Leave enough space between tomato vines for air to circulate.

[AFB-XYZ]

I would add blister beetles and gophers to that list. Personal experience with both last yaer.

That said, I’m going to do something nutty and try — even as late in the growing season as it is — to start a few tomatoes from seed. Fingers are crossed! :-)

[daniel1212]

Thanks. With the exceptionally cool and rainy June then the toms that get spattered with water from the roof (LL has not places a gutter system) are already showing the yearly blight:

Usually this shows up in early August, and trying to sterilize the soil and spray with copper-based spray does not work. Cutting off the bad leaves enables the new growth to be free of such, but the season ends before real recovery can take place.

But most of the garden is still doing well, thank God.

[metmom]

This is the first year in about ever that I have not planted tomatoes.

I have so many canned that I didn’t need to, so I am focusing on other veggies.

And it looks just as well with the weird weather we’re having. With all this moisture, the blight would destroy the crop anyways.

[Pollard]

1. Blossom End Rot
2. Blossom Drop
3. Fruit Cracks
4. Sunscald
5. Poor Fruit Set
6. Catfacing
7. Leaf Roll
8. Puffiness
9. Early Blight
10. Viral Diseases
11. EXTREME HEAT ???

That misting with water idea is starting to sound good.

[spankalib]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QzLIjL1u4

It is to laugh...