My tomato’s as well as peppers got exposed to 35 degrees for a night, stems seem solid all leaves are wilted and damaged looking. Should i cut all wilted damaged leaves or leave them be?
by z283848
My tomato’s as well as peppers got exposed to 35 degrees for a night, stems seem solid all leaves are wilted and damaged looking. Should i cut all wilted damaged leaves or leave them be?
by z283848
9 Comments
35 degrees didn’t do that, those plants froze. You can try misting them with water several times a day for a week. Check for new growth. If you have new growth than you can cut of all of the wilted leaves. If you don’t see any new growth in a week, your plants are dead.
I’d start over with the worst plants
Idk I’ve had tomato stems that snap off and sat for 2 days all wilted and horrible looking. I grabbed them and potted them. About a week later they have fully rebounded. I wouldn’t give up hope yet. Maybe start some new seeds if you have extra just incase?
That soil looks pretty compacted which would most likely affect if the tomatoes would recover or not.
Get rid of those plants and start over
u/Cali_Yogurtfriend624
replacement transplants if interested, op.
This exact thing happened to me in late March in Houston this year. We got down to 39° a month after our average last frost date, so most of my garden had been planted out for about a month. I didn’t cover because I didn’t think 39 was a danger and the wind was blowing so hard, I was afraid the frost cloth would do more damage. Came out the next morning to the exact thing you did. My cucumbers didn’t rebound but the peppers and tomatoes did recover.
As long as the stems look healthy, leave the plants and the damaged leaves and fertilize with a high nitrogen liquid fertilizer (this will encourage a fast rebound of new leaf growth). Then, when you start getting new growth, you can prune off the damaged parts. A month later, and you can’t even tell anything ever happened to the plants. Everything is huge and fruiting beautifully.
Frozen plants. Just get new ones. These aren’t worth it.
Im sorry. Those tomatoes look pretty dead. Theyre very sensitive to frost, and this is definitely major frost damage.