How to Save Overwatered Tomato Plants FAST- Follow These Steps!

How to save overwatered tomato plants. Follow these simple steps! My Giant Crimson tomatoes weren't looking too hot.. They were actually looking pretty wet!

Here is how I saved my plants within 24 hours.

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[lendadallas]

Thanks TONZ!!!
Excellent solution for what could have been deadly for my tomatoes!

[toddjohnston]

New sub...thanks for the tips...I always am guilty giving my tomatoes to much attention 😒🤣👍

[wmluna]

I've been doing this awhile and had a tomato plant that looked/felt just like the one featured in this video.

I have it ingrained in my head that I would see yellowing with overwatering, but what you presented makes sense based on what I encountered. That particular tomato plant was not salvageable with transplanting though - too far gone.

I have focus issues so I think I watered a set of plants again thinking I had not watered them before.

Definitely appreciate the overview. I am in zone 6A in MI.

[mallatobuckthecanine]

You look like double O7 and are talking about tomatoes. HOW COOL IS THAT!

[lendadallas]

How long would you say you should wait after doing this to start hardening them off for outdoor planting?

[anubhavsinha]

My plant has grown 3 feet height in a big pot in California sun (have few fruits coming too) and seems I over pruned it 5days ago. Now the leaves are drooping just like in video. How do I dry the soil in my case?

[fionafresh]

Can you do this with plants that are much larger already?

[Zonatapio]

Why not just wait a day or two till the soil dries itself off in the sun? Or even out a fan pointed at the ground it to drastically speed up the drying process? You can even take a pencil and poke holes in the soil on the outer edges to speed it up even more

[johnw]

1st impressions:
00:50 - Roots have not become slightly root-bound just yet, a d I LIKE to let them bind a bit, because it causes the top's growth to accelerate, which gets the plants established to make food with LOTS of leaves - FAST.
So, ordinarilly this one is a bit early, but I'd just go ahead and up-pot that puppy a d NOT water it in - simply tamp the soil in the newly prepared pot with a solo cup just packed with soil (to make the cup ridgid), and form the recieving soil around that, then pull the "dummy cup" to make a perfectly sized recievimg hole.
1- Dump plant from cup
2- Flip it into the waiting hole while displaying what an accurate shot you are - because shot placement matters! :)

Also, when plants get over-watered, moving them to a sunny window with a fan blowing up "in the general area where they are" will cause them to loose a LOT of excess moisture from their leaves because they *do* transpire - and havimg moving air near them makes them chew through watwr much faster.

[lidiabatorski]

When this happens to my tomatoes plants I just replant them in the new slightly bigger pots. The new soil takes care of the excess moisture.

[richardsanchez]

You could have just repotted into a larger pot with dry soil and the moisture would wick out into surrounding soil

[shayinla]

I overwatered my seedlings but they’re not even this big. I’m hoping this will work on them.

[localunion]

Where do you get newspaper in todays world lol

[coachtim]

Piece of cake if you got tomatoes in pots. 1/2 of TN got flooded 3 nights ago and now mine are all wilting. The dirt is all soup. Wondering if I'll lose my entire crop.

[jdssurf]

the newspaper wasn't loud enough lol

[nicoleeva]

My tomatoes are all wilting....😢😢😢..I've tried everything....light watering....everything..

[KB-]

Or just don't water it for a day or two in this fucking heat wave 😤 lol