Nitrogen Deficiency - Tomato

Tomato Tomato

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Why are lower leaves yellowing and then wilting? Is this normal for tomatoes?

Lower leaves yellow, wilt and then fall off.

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M

Hi Allan Benamer ! It looks like Deficiência de Nitrogênio

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I'm going to apply fertilizer but how long do you think it will take to recover?

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Agreed, the plant will focus nitrogen reserves on the newest growth, this the lower leaves will begin to yellow. The lower leaves may not recover, but being that it is a Tomato, you can prune those off. Feed your plant a good all purpose plant food per the instructions on the bag and it will stop the yellowing.

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I pruned them and I'll now fertilize them.

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I'm now seeing fungus gnats and more leaves wilting. Could that be a problem as well?

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Your soil may be a bit too moist of you are seeing fungus gnats. I usually keep the bottom foot or so of my mature plants completely pruned clean, and then continue up the plant leaving only the branch directly under the lowest fruit set. A $15 moisture/pH/light meter may help with troubleshooting

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I actually have one of those meters and I've been trying to not water the plants until it measures moisture below a five on the meter. I just pruned the wilted leaves off so it looks a little more trimmed now. I've been applying AzaMax as a foliar spray as well.

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D

Sounds like you are on the right track

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It seems that adding fertilizer, using plant food, watering less and pruning the bad leaves worked! Here's the plant now!

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Excellent! Glad to hear it is recovering

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