I think transplanted 11 tomatoes to the garden more than a week ago and they all seem unhappy comparing to all of the ones that weren’t transplanted. They all have closing up leaves, light green leaves, and purple veins are showing. The only thing that I can think of is lack of nutrients, but which one? In the cup tomato were feed with light liquid fertilizer. The garden has manure, and some chicken pellets were put under the ground when transplanted.
by N7Stars
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To clarify, the ones are in the cup are feed with light liquid fertilizer only ONE time more than the ones are in the garden. They stay at the same environment. But the cup ones always wilted at 3-5pm when it’s hot, the garden ones are fine. The cup ones stay outside at night too but have a roof.
The temperature is from 47f-77f (9c-25c)
Have you always put chicken pellets with your transplants? If so, is this your first time experiencing this issue while practicing that?
The way the leaves are folded (like a taco) makes me thing environmental stress. That could be more sun, more wind, or even just a drier environment. Oddly, the color makes me think of what mine look like when the potting soil I use is too heavy and not draining well. Once I was out of perlite and used extra vermiculite to ‘compensate’ – those plants reacted a lot like this in terms of the color.
So I would guess it may not be a nutrient issue but might be environmental. Feet too wet, head too dry … I would look at that before possibly overdosing nutrients. We keep having nights in the 40s here so all my plants are looking peeved.
You r experiencing nitrogen and phosphorus deficiency..organics take 2..3..4 weeks to break down and become available to ur plant..I would put a 1.5 tablespoons of a 20 20 20 liquid inorganic fertilizer in a 1.5 gallon pump sprayer and spray each plants foliage and give each plant a 10 or 15 second drench base of each plant where the stem meets soil..water soluble inorganic fertilizer is available instantly to the plant..do this and watch in about 3 days the complete 180 the deficient plants..plants don’t know the difference in organic or inorganic truth me..once u get them thru this time of stress u can return to organics..people must understand that organics have to be broken down by microbes in ur soil and if the soil is cool it takes even longer for nutrients to become available to whatever plant it is..with all that said always think 30 to 45 days ahead when using organics..I start all my plants from seed and I use inorganic water soluble fertilizer till transplant..I then use alfalfa pellets in the soil and I make alfalfa tee with a small amount of of molasses to speed up the tea fermenting plus it ad some iorn as well..you want this to work off for a good.week before feeding tomatoes…if it doesn’t stink like crazy it’s not done working off..go feed your tomatoes asap..