Your tomato plant looks terrible. Let’s narrow this down. Find the symptom that matches what you’re looking at — you can do this standing next to the plant, phone in one hand.
What the Hell Is Wrong With My Tomato?
Where is the problem?
Fruit
- Black or brown bottom
- Splitting or cracking
- Won't ripen
- Spots on the fruit
- Misshapen fruit
- Tiny fruit
- Fruit dropping off
Leaves
- Curling upward
- Curling downward
- Turning yellow
- Turning brown
- Spots on leaves
- Holes in leaves
- Wilting leaves
- Distorted new growth
Flowers
All flowers problemsWhole Plant
- Wilting
- Stopped growing
- Dying from the bottom upward
- Very tall, very little fruit
- Generally miserable
Bugs
All bugs problemsI Think I've Killed It
- I overwatered it
- I forgot to water it
- I overfed it
- I pruned first and Googled afterwards
- It might be dead
Can't see your symptom?
Start with water. Push a finger 5 cm into the soil and find out whether it's bone dry, pleasantly damp or swampy. That one check explains more tomato problems than everything else combined.
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