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schvantzkopf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> > Unfortunately there was a very hot spell and by the time I had got to
> > them they had seriously wilted. I opened the greenhouse, moved them
into
> > the shade and gave them a good drink of water. Now a lot of them have
> > crispy brown leaves and are looking somewhat dead.
> > Are they beyond salvation.
> > I would welcome any advice.
> > Many thanks
> > Chris
>
> They sound dead, fortunately tomato plants are cheap. I tried to raise
> tomatoes from seed last year because I wanted to grow some heirloom
> varieties. They all keeled over and died before I could transplant them
> so I went back to the old reliable garden center plants.
What he said... but....
Was there any sense of revival in the first few hours?
Tomatoes are a very vascular plant and if there's going to be a hint of
revival, it usually happens pretty quickly.
When is dead, not dead?
What we'd do, depends on the answers to the above questions and our time
frame...
Likely we'd move to plan B right away and if there was any hint of life
in the plants, we would continue to care for them for awhile.
If they survived, we'd have even more tomatoes........ :-)
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