Tomato plants broke in half after storm?
Question:We had a bad hail storm this week! All of my tomato plants broke in half (the stem) they were about 16- 20" tall. Will they still still grow?
I planted 12 of them!
Answers:
Yes! they will grow back. If they just broke in half the plant will respond just as though they were pinched at a young age. When they resprout at the break, there will be two new shoots. Make sure you remove one of them so that you end up with one central leader again.
Even if most of your leaves are tattered, I would leave them on the plant until it resprouts new leaves, then remove the tattered ones. A good shot of fertilizer will speed up the process
You will need to remove the broken half. If there are tears in the rest of the stem - as opposed to a clean break - then no, they won't re-grow. Sorry to give you the bad news. I know that frustration, I've lost lots of gardens to the weather.
Im sorry,
but they probably wont grow back if the leaves are ripped off
because the leaves take in most of the sunlight to give the plants energy. I encourage you to keep trying to grow them.
Hope this helps!
Try a splint...Use a popcicle Stick or simular item and bandaide it..Hopfully that will work...
They will grow back, just keep watering them!
If you cut the plants off where the brake occurred you can re-root them in some potting soil and then replant them in the garden when they start rooting. If they weren't very far along, you might save some time by buying replacement plants.
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Good Luck and Happy Gardening from Cathy and Neal!
It's possible they may survive. Cut off the damaged part and wait and see. Hope they come back!!
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