Help! Floppy tomato seedlings

Tibbie's_mum

Following on from my floppy pumpkin seedlings, my tomatoes are now floppy. I know I've probably overwatered them and not given them enough light, but is there anything I can do to save them now?

TIA

Lotus-eater

Drain the pots of water and just leave them, they should pick up again.

valentina

I would try and salvage the best ones and pot them into some fresh compost.

Jake'sGran

Valentina's idea is a good one. It just might work but in my experience seedlings - any kind - don't usually pick up once they become unhappy. I sowed some oldish tom seeds two weeks ago and noticed today they have germinated but I think tomatoes are easy compared to other plants. Good luck anyway. I swore last year that I would not grow tomatoes again. There were just too many.

forgotmyname

They did badly here last year, 1st tried 3 years ago & we were giving them to anyone that spoke to us. Following year weather not so good & not as many, Last year was dreadful hardly any toms.

gillian62

My tomatoes were awful last year too. It was the worse year I had had growing them. Glad to think that maybe it was a weather thing, rather than try and work out what I had done wrong!!

Lotus-eater

Have they picked up yet?

Tibbie's_mum

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Have they picked up yet?

I haven't had a chance to re-pot them, but have left them on a sunny windowsill to dry out and they seem to have picked up. I'm not that worried about the majority of them because I have more seeds and can try again. But I only had 7 Sungold seeds, which had all germinated, but my OH had murdered 1 when fiddling around with his mangetout seedling. I really don't want to spend any more money on seeds as I have plenty, but I was really looking forward to growing that variety.

Thanks to everyone who posted, I'll let you know how it goes.

Jake'sGran

forgotmyname wrote: »

They did badly here last year, 1st tried 3 years ago & we were giving them to anyone that spoke to us. Following year weather not so good & not as many, Last year was dreadful hardly any toms.

Were they outside? I did read a lot of comments about tomatoes not doing well last year but discovered that people were talking about ones grown outside. I haven't got room for these really so mine are always in those black tubs from Morrisons inside a unheated greenhouse.

Lotus-eater

Tibbie's_mum wrote: »

I haven't had a chance to re-pot them, but have left them on a sunny windowsill to dry out and they seem to have picked up.

So they have picked up then.

If they are in the right size pots, you don't need to re-pot. Just don't overwater them.

ALIBOBSY

If they go a bit leggy you can always repot but with some of the stem buried. This encourages more root growth and thicker stems so stronger plants.

I only water any of my seedlings once the compost has dried out (but not to the point were it is so dry it shrinks away from the sides of the pots). They seem to bounce back better from a little underwatering, than over watering.

ali x