Pictures 1&2: The past two weeks two of my tomato plants have been rapidly shedding leaves. At first I thought it was normal but they continue to turn brown and fall off. The tomatoes seem fine though. Is this normal?
Picture 3: this seems to be happening to this plant as well, but much slower and seems more 'circle of life' type shit.
Picture 4: bonus! Picture of one of my big juicy bois!
Full disclosure, I asked chatGPT a few weeks ago, it brought up some fungal problems and/or blight. In order to counter that I've started adding CAL-MAG to the water once a week or every other week.
by Irish_Astronaut
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I would guess your containers are rather small and the roots are drying out too fast, causing the plant to prio the fruit and shed the leaves
I would say the root zone may lack oxygen.
Potentially too wet, causing root rot.
The calcium or magnesium deficiency could be also due to that. The tugor pressure of your tomato is looking weak, I guess they have also a water uptake issue.
But maybe its soon end of their life cycle.
Pots too small
Ive worked in tomatoes and it looks a bit like early stage of an tomato russet mite infestation. Ruined whole parts of a harvest one year. Not sure though, could also be defiencies in nutrients / root growspace.
A single full-grown tomato plant that is flowering and especially growing fruit can drink 2 liters of water or more a day. My guess is that the multiple plants you have in a tiny box are not getting nearly enough water but likely not enough nutrients, either.
Hi where did you get your tomato cage/ stake?
Mine look like this when they get spider mites