I've a tomato plant which was growing really well but,the leaves at the bottom have started to go yellow help
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If you have fruit below the leaves and are big enough to eat cut the leaves off. Known as leafing this will allow the sun to help ripen fruit when it stops raining. If plant is small could simply be lack of water, feed with tomorite or somthing similar available at most garden centres.
your over watering it
Just pluck off the yellow ones and let the green leaves grow with joy.
A little yellowing is normal on most plants during the growing season.
You'll know there's a real problem if yellowing of the tomato leaves affects more than half of the plant. Then the yellowing leaf condition may be an indication that the plant is not able to produce sufficient chlorophyll or its chlorophyll is being destroyed. Chlorosis can be caused by by root damage due to poor drainage, overwatering, drought, excess chemical fertilizers, disease, air pollution, sucking insects or too much shade. Eliminating these conditions would allow the leaves of your plants to turn green again.
Since too much water in the soil and limited oxygen can kill the root system, check to make sure that your plant is not absorbing too much water. However, if you've had a drought & your plant hasn't been getting enough water, then watering is the answer. Make sure your tomato plant is not in too much shade or getting too much fertilizer. Also check for insects.
Your plant is probably just going through the normal yellowing that takes place as the tomato grows, so check things out & don't worry.
Good luck! Hope this helps.
Hi there,
It may not be as simple as over-watering. Try this link and see if this is of any use.
Cheers and Good Luck!
Lucy
Are you feeding your tomato plant? They are high Potash feeders. Being underfed will make the leaves go yellow, although if just at the bottom it could be just dying off naturally.
(the leaf, not the plant).
The same thing happens to my tomatoes every year. It never seems to stop them fruiting, I just trim off the yellow leaves.
Quite normal for leaves at bottom to yellow. Pluck them off. I remove quite a few leaves from plants actually, in order to let light in to help fruits to ripen. Also cuts down on the watering, which helps also. Keep feeding little blighters cos they are like babies. Kept warm, fed and watered, they cause much less grief. Enjoy the fruits of your labours.
This is common, just pinch them off
check for whitefly and other aphids; they can cause this, but so can overwatering and lack of magnesium. Try feeding with Phostrogen tomato food, and remove the yellow leaves.
Try Epsom Salts, and no i`m not joking.
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