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Had to transplant my 7 foot tomato plant! Will it make it?!?

I've had my tomato plant in the ground for a few months now. It's grown over 7 ft tall and pretty much took over my whole garden. I had it fenced it, but had a bad storm and the wind took the fence down and the tomato plant sprawled out all over the garden. I tried to restake it with the fence, but it didn't work, it was just too big! Since we needed to do SOMETHING, my husband dug it up, severed it's main root, and replanted it, letting it sprawl on the ground. He put good fertilizer in it, and we are hoping for the best. It has a bunch of small tomatoes on it. It looks dead right now, but a few people say it may come back around with enough sun and water. What do you think?!?!

Public Comments

1. How hot is it where you are? If it is really hot then it is not likely that it will come back especially since it had tomatoes on it.
2. This was a pretty drastic move, and I don't think it will go well. It's summer and hot, the plant was huge and had fruit on it, the main root was cut, and fertilizer was a bad idea. Too many points against it. You would have been better off just leaving it where it was, even if it was on the ground. At least it would live.
3. Next year DON'T buy indeterminate plants. You won't have the problem
4. This should be of help to you with more advice on that. http://www.ifcga.org/tomatotransplant.html