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- Does it recover in the morning and evening? If so, the roots are struggling to take up water.
- Is the soil bone dry, or has it stayed soggy for days?
- Check the base of the stem and the roots for galls, brown streaks, or a rotten smell.
Most likely causes
From the pests and diseases recorded for this plant, the ones whose symptoms match, most serious first. Symptoms alone rarely confirm a cause, so use the linked page to check the signs and treatment.
Bacterial Wilt
Leaves wilt while still green during the day and recover in the morning and evening; after a few days of this the plant dies. Cut the stem and stand it in water and a milky white bacterial ooze streams out in threads.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Bacterial WiltFusarium Wilt
Lower leaves wilt during the day and recover morning and evening, and this cycle repeats as the plant dies back. Cutting the stem reveals characteristic browning of the vascular tissue.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Fusarium WiltVerticillium Wilt
Only one side of the lower leaves yellows and wilts, and the symptom moves up the plant. Stem vascular tissue turns pale brown and the plant dies without ever growing well.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Verticillium WiltOther possible causes
- Root-knot Nematode — The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up a…
- Etiolation — Internodes stretch long, stems are thin and leaf color is pale. The plant topples easily a…
- Southern Blight — The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrou…
- Root Rot — Fine roots rot brown to blackish brown, growth stops and the lower leaves yellow. The plan…
- Waterlogging Root Decay — The plant wilts even though the soil never dries, and the lower leaves yellow. Pull it up …
- Fertilizer Burn — Leaf margins scorch brown soon after fertilizing and the whole plant wilts. Root tips turn…
- Sclerotinia Rot — The crown, stem or head rots in a water-soaked way and is covered in white cottony myceliu…
Other symptoms on this plant
What other growers did about it
A page like this one can tell you what cherry tomato plant wilting is and what to try. What it cannot tell you is what actually happened to someone who had it on the same plant, at the same point in the season, and what they did next.
Gadenin is a free garden journal built around that. You photograph the plant, tag what you are seeing, and the entries line up by date for each plant you grow.
- Tag the problem and the app tells you how many other growers have logged the same thing on the same plant.
- Growers who make their records public can be followed, so you can read what they did and how it turned out.
- Next season your own entries come back at the same point in the year, so you check the plant before it starts.
Free on iPhone. Recording, tagging and reading public records cost nothing.