How to Save Overwatered Tomato Plants FAST- Follow These Steps!
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- How to save overwatered tomato plants. Follow these simple steps! My Giant Crimson tomatoes weren't looking too hot.. They were actually looking pretty wet!
Here is how I saved my plants within 24 hours.
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Thanks TONZ!!!
Excellent solution for what could have been deadly for my tomatoes!
Works every time! Those roots just need to breathe
New sub...thanks for the tips...I always am guilty giving my tomatoes to much attention 😒🤣👍
You look like double O7 and are talking about tomatoes. HOW COOL IS THAT!
I've been doing this awhile and had a tomato plant that looked/felt just like the one featured in this video.
I have it ingrained in my head that I would see yellowing with overwatering, but what you presented makes sense based on what I encountered. That particular tomato plant was not salvageable with transplanting though - too far gone.
I have focus issues so I think I watered a set of plants again thinking I had not watered them before.
Definitely appreciate the overview. I am in zone 6A in MI.
With the smaller pots you can really feel the extra water weight in them. Then the soil starts repelling water. I think soil really becomes the issue vs. watering methods. At some point soil gets tired and doesn't allow water to drain right. Especially in small containers
@@FastGardeningMichigan Yeah, I usually try to pick the pots up and feel for the weight, but I was probably either in a rush or distracted.
I actually pulled it up earlier today. It was in a smaller container. That's when I got a good sense of how waterlogged the soil was, but now I can troubleshoot by sight/feel and not double down on the watering. 😏
Yellowing leaves are (most often) a sign that the plants have NO nitrogen left in the soil. They need a light fertilizer (a 10-5-10 or 10-10-10 is fine - at HALF or QUARTER strength)
1st number is (N)itrogen
2nd number is (P)hosphoros
3rd number is (K) Potassium
Nitorgen is needed to make chlorophyl. Yellow leaves = Leaves that can not make chlorophyl.
❤wow that was awesome 😎
Thanks!
Awesome thank you.
Thanks for watching! Hope this tip helps
Why not just wait a day or two till the soil dries itself off in the sun? Or even out a fan pointed at the ground it to drastically speed up the drying process? You can even take a pencil and poke holes in the soil on the outer edges to speed it up even more
Plastic containers do not allow air in fast enough to dry once over watered. The best practice is preventing it from happening but if it does this will prevent permanent damage like root rot.
How long would you say you should wait after doing this to start hardening them off for outdoor planting?
As soon as they perk up they're good to go. Usually a day or two
You could have just repotted into a larger pot with dry soil and the moisture would wick out into surrounding soil
Ah man. And then you watered directly on the soil you just dried out instead of around outer edges
great
When this happens to my tomatoes plants I just replant them in the new slightly bigger pots. The new soil takes care of the excess moisture.
A lot of overwatering happens due to root bound plants. Not enough airflow through the soil
Exactly! I was thinking I overwatered but it was something else. It was hard to pull them from the pot to transplant. the roots were so dense!
My plant has grown 3 feet height in a big pot in California sun (have few fruits coming too) and seems I over pruned it 5days ago. Now the leaves are drooping just like in video. How do I dry the soil in my case?
If the soil is wet you can gently remove the tomato from the pot and break up and trim the roots. Give it fresh soil to fill the new space. Tomatoes are forgiving when it comes to disturbed roots. I don't grow in containers because tomatoes will fill any size and get root bound.
Where do you get newspaper in todays world lol
Gas stations!
Yeah kinda a joke but are getting hard to find. Thanks for the tips.
1st impressions:
00:50 - Roots have not become slightly root-bound just yet, a d I LIKE to let them bind a bit, because it causes the top's growth to accelerate, which gets the plants established to make food with LOTS of leaves - FAST.
So, ordinarilly this one is a bit early, but I'd just go ahead and up-pot that puppy a d NOT water it in - simply tamp the soil in the newly prepared pot with a solo cup just packed with soil (to make the cup ridgid), and form the recieving soil around that, then pull the "dummy cup" to make a perfectly sized recievimg hole.
1- Dump plant from cup
2- Flip it into the waiting hole while displaying what an accurate shot you are - because shot placement matters! :)
Also, when plants get over-watered, moving them to a sunny window with a fan blowing up "in the general area where they are" will cause them to loose a LOT of excess moisture from their leaves because they *do* transpire - and havimg moving air near them makes them chew through watwr much faster.
Ive found the solo cups to not be friendly for drying out over watered plants. I started drilling more holes in the side for this reason. My new method is to actually let plants WILT from lack of water, then water. In my experience lack of water is less destructive than too much
@1:10 Man, I LOVE IT! If left on when they go to ground, THAT would also encourage DOWNWARD growth - which definately can incrwase drought tolerance!
This is AWESOME!
Why does the "Like Button" onlh work once per video? Can ypu fix that?
heh
@@johnw5242 haha I had to watch it again. The older videos are less professional. At some point Ill need to revisit these and remake them. Still one of my favorite tomato fixes besides the root bound repair. Proud to say I've never had a tomato die on me! Ive even planted freshly germinated ones that were extra in a cell or block and they do better than the aged plants I grow
FWIW - I honestly believe the newspaper trick plus putting them upright in the bigger pit fulled with wadded up newspaper would give great result, too. Knce the roots dry a little wirhout the cup - they'd perk right up. Just keep the lights off the roots and they'll be fine.
@@johnw5242 you are right!
Can you do this with plants that are much larger already?
Yes but it's harder. Larger plants do not like to be moved once established, especially in the ground. If a plant has filled a container with roots it will hold together. Otherwise you're losing soil and roots come apart. But people do transplant larger plants with success so seems feasible. Taking the risk is worth it rather than roots rotting away and plants dying. Just make sure you replant in loose, fertile soil and don't disturb the roots too much
If the roots are not filling the container - warmth - keeping the plant in an area whith low humidity (if possible) - and MOVING AIR (a fan) can be VERY helpful in assiting the soil drying out.
Soil temps can be safely elevated to 85 or 90 degrees F and the roots will LOVE IT. Root rot loves over-watered soil. You NEED to let soil dry out between waterings starting as soon as seedlings have their 2nd or 3rd set of "Real Leaves"
Even if you loose some - DON'T GIVE UP. When learning a new skill, people need to resolve themselves to the fact that, we'll likely going to "throw one away."
Thank you! That’s encouraging!
What if the plants are really bigger
Same process. A lot of times over watered is confused with root bound. Unpotting, trimming roots, and fresh soil solves both
Great tip to know too much H2O.
Water and sun are 2 things people claim tomatoes love BUT I find that to be incorrect. My tomatoes love a half day of shade and days or weeks between watering
the newspaper wasn't loud enough lol
I was hoping it was louder! This is old. I've come a long way since these videos, I hope 😂
Or just don't water it for a day or two in this fucking heat wave 😤 lol
Im worried about my tomatoe plant its looking horrendous
It was 104 here in central ca.
@@felix64able water
In extreme heat it's so hard to keep consistently watered....I'm having that trouble here in Ohio...drip system probably the best bet
@@toddjohnston4788 best to do it at night
I overwatered my seedlings but they’re not even this big. I’m hoping this will work on them.
It will! Should dry out faster as well. The smaller plants are tougher sometimes
My tomatoes are all wilting....😢😢😢..I've tried everything....light watering....everything..
Is it hot out?
@@FastGardeningMichigan Yes but I'm in the Caribbean...sometimes it rains alot and then sometimes it's extremely hot.
@@nicole4eva111 I've always found wilting a sign of root stress. Whether it's roots rotting due to too much moisture or roots getting too hot because soil isn't covered. If it's extremely dry they'll send the water to the roots to conserve moisture. In containers, wilting is usually root bound and root bound traps moisture leading to root rot. Everything has to do with the roots with tomatoes! They don't love heat and water as much as some believe
@@FastGardeningMichigan OK....I think I'll have to try them in bigger pots in the shade because it's extremely hot here sometimes. I'll keep trying. Thank you for responding.
How about the curling inwards?
Inwards is usually underwatered, heat stress, or herbicide damage
@@FastGardeningMichigan may I kindly ask what is the home remedy fixture?
The branches are okay therefore the leaves curl like a (C) shape? Example like your (C/U) Facing Downward.? Hope this description helps to clarify?
@@michaelsj8949 give them some water and shade. They should be noticeably better within an hour if its just heat stress and water. If they stay curled or branches look twisted there may be some herbicide residue in the soil mixture. Common with manure or compost since most livestock eat straw that's been sprayed.
@@michaelsj8949 are these tomatoes in the ground, or in containers?
Piece of cake if you got tomatoes in pots. 1/2 of TN got flooded 3 nights ago and now mine are all wilting. The dirt is all soup. Wondering if I'll lose my entire crop.
They could be dug up to dry although that is quite the effort. Trimming off rotted roots and heavy pruning to compensate for a smaller root system.
He forgot to add aspirin and calsum
I do not add that stuff. There are natural options that can satisfy any benefits those can bring. In this case just drying out the roots and potting up fixes sad tomatoes!
What if your tomatoes are in the ground and water logged?
@@aimeebronson6150 stop watering them