Volunteer tomatoes

[Sarabear]

My hubby discovered about 12-15 little volunteer cherry tomato plants. I transplanted them into a pot and fertilized them but they are all very wilted over now...not sure what I need to do to get them back perky again. Any suggestions of what I need to do to get them better established?

 

[linuxman]

Give a little water and time. I find that th[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]e the volunteer tomato plants are very hardy, and will bounce back with a little time, and maybe some crushed eggshell.[/FONT]

 

[Eggcessive]

The biggest thing this time of the year when I plant or transplant a tomato plant is to water it and cover it with a flower pot or newspaper to shade it for 3 days, then uncover it and it will do fine. You can also break suckers off your other tomatoes and stick them in the ground with the same treatment, and have more tomatoes.

 

[3 NH reds]

I found this plant growing last week outside of one of our coops. Now the funny part is we never grew tomatoes over there.it is flowering so we will see.

 

[linuxman]

That's a tomato all right. Have you ever grown tomato's? Or maybe put some in the chicken coop, or compost pile that the chickens have access to? Those are all ways to spread seeds. (Personal experience talking)

 

[3 NH reds]

Didn't grow any last year. Best I could say is maybe they had some tossed in the run one day and one of them pooped it out and I tracked it out.

 

[katsdar]

Has anyone ever seen a tomato sprout like this before, this is really weird. You can even see where there are more sprouts under the skin.

 

[3 NH reds]

That is weird, you could go to tomato dirt.com and see if anyone else has seen this.

 

[katsdar]

I contacted the site you suggested and am waiting on a response. I pierced the skin to help the other sprouts come out and they have all emerged. So strange, makes me wonder if this is one of those genetically modified tomatoes. My neighbor bought this from our local grocery store.