Way too many plants for the lil pot. To have any chance of harvesting anything, remove all but 1, and top that pot right up. You could seperate into different pots. Bigger the better
commndoRollJazzHnds
Might help to take it off the wall
box_of_carrots
Yellow leaves are a sign of overwatering.
As another commentor said, your pots are way too small with not enough soil. Replant them in bucket sized pots and fill them almost to the brim with a mix of soil and compost.
mcguirl2
Couple of problems, they have run out of space and they have run out of nutrients.
Those pots are fine for starting off seedlings but unsuitable for growing on tomatoes to maturity. You have to pot them on into larger pots as they grow, sometimes more than once.
An indeterminate tomato plant can grow 8ft tall. Each individual plant needs quite a big pot to thrive, think 12L bucket sized.
Honestly I think it’s too late in the season now for these to catch up to the point where they would develop fruits and ripen in time before frost, even if you transplanted them now. I’d probably just cut my losses here and try again next year. They’d want to be this size in March-April, not August.
Finally, always fill your pots right to the brim with soil. Those are less than half full so there’s nowhere for your plants to develop their root systems. The trick when filling a pot is to fill it up to the brim, then tap the pot onto the potting bench or on the ground a few times so the soil settles down a bit in it, and then top it up to the brim again before planting. It’ll still sink a bit over time, but that shouldn’t be more than a couple cms.
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Way too many plants for the lil pot. To have any chance of harvesting anything, remove all but 1, and top that pot right up. You could seperate into different pots. Bigger the better
Might help to take it off the wall
Yellow leaves are a sign of overwatering.
As another commentor said, your pots are way too small with not enough soil. Replant them in bucket sized pots and fill them almost to the brim with a mix of soil and compost.
Couple of problems, they have run out of space and they have run out of nutrients.
Those pots are fine for starting off seedlings but unsuitable for growing on tomatoes to maturity. You have to pot them on into larger pots as they grow, sometimes more than once.
An indeterminate tomato plant can grow 8ft tall. Each individual plant needs quite a big pot to thrive, think 12L bucket sized.
Honestly I think it’s too late in the season now for these to catch up to the point where they would develop fruits and ripen in time before frost, even if you transplanted them now. I’d probably just cut my losses here and try again next year. They’d want to be this size in March-April, not August.
Finally, always fill your pots right to the brim with soil. Those are less than half full so there’s nowhere for your plants to develop their root systems. The trick when filling a pot is to fill it up to the brim, then tap the pot onto the potting bench or on the ground a few times so the soil settles down a bit in it, and then top it up to the brim again before planting. It’ll still sink a bit over time, but that shouldn’t be more than a couple cms.