I need to take more pics, but I repotted my roma tomato plants today and went ahead and added a stake. They are a good 12+ inches tall now. My heirloom plant had a mishap yesterday and I went out to find it with the stalk severed. I put it in water over night and tried potting it today. We'll see what happens to it. The stalk didn't wither overnight and the lower leaves looked a bit perkier. It has a couple of small roots still attached. It was close to 14 inches before it wilted on top.

I replanted my third pot and have some cherry tomato plants started. I'll replant one of those and another heirloom plant when they get a little bigger.

Sounds like everything is going great there, FK! If it ever stops raining, I might be able to get things into our rather muddy garden

Aphids can be a pain. Did you know that female aphids are born pregnant?!?! That's why they reproduce so quickly (or rather is a contributing factor )

Here are a couple of pics from my tomato plants. The one with limited leaves is the one that got damaged a week ago or so.

I don't have a clue what's wrong with this plant. I'm thinking that I may have overwatered. I watered yesterday and I'm waiting until tomorrow to water again. With the repotting, I wasn't sure how much to water and for how long. If there's something else wrong, could you let me know and what to do to try to fix it?

It looks like that one mich have a leaf blight. Mine get this on occasion. That branch looks like it's going to be a sucker branch any ways, and so I don't think it would be terrible if you broke it off. If this blight is on the entire plant, then you obviously cannot do this.

I don't know. . . I don't have a ton of experience with plant sickness

So maybe some fertilizer and some bug spray? *forgot the appropriate name for that stuff* I was thinking aiming the bug spray at the dirt and not the leaves. Could it be a symptom of the transplanting? Shock or something?

I was wondering and wanted to ask y'all, how reliable are those Buzzy Seeds instant-plant things, with the dried dirt and everything in the pot, for flowers? For vegetables, so far my experience with them has been on the more negative sides, but I noticed they have Marigolds, Sunflowers, and those other pink flowers whose name I can't recall presently... Help would be appreciated! (and tips on planting and keeping flowers, since my method has been plant, water, watch grow... )

Kat, that sounds like as good a plan as any.

AITB: I wouldn't give them much of a chance. Some of the flowers will come up from those things, but it will take a lot of time, and the results won't be spectacular. You'd be much better to buy some annuals from your local garden store.

I don't have a clue what's wrong with this plant. I'm thinking that I may have overwatered. I watered yesterday and I'm waiting until tomorrow to water again. With the repotting, I wasn't sure how much to water and for how long. If there's something else wrong, could you let me know and what to do to try to fix it?

It just looks stressed to me. Nothing wrong with it at all. The one I snapped off a few weeks ago looked the same on the lower leaves but the top ones look fine.

So maybe some fertilizer and some bug spray?

Didn't you tell me you fertilized them just a couple weeks ago? Make sure you're reading the directions so you don't over-fertilize (very easy to do) which can burn the plant roots and kill the plant.
Also, if you don't see bugs munching on the leaves, no need to apply bug spray either. I've successfully killed more plants applying spray than I have just letting the bugs eat the plants.

ETA: My sister is informing me that I am incorrect about the leaf blight. She says they're leaf miners which I've never heard of before. She may post here shortly to fill you in on all the gory details. If not, I'm sure Google can help you out.

They are indeed leaf miners. They're bitty bugs that eat around in distinctive curvy patterns in a leaf. They're not usually not fatal to a plant... I'm not actually sure what product to suggest for this actually, most systemic insecticides aren't safe to use on anything edible. You could try seven dust but since the insects are physically inside the leaf you probably won't get good control.

I think Bayer has one systemic product marked for orchards and vegetables that would work but I can't remember the name of it, just where it is on the shelf at work.

I hate pesticides anyhow. Just let the plant tough it out.

Aslanisthebest, I'm not actually familiar with that product. But from looking at their site, it's pretty much like starting your own plants from seed all in one kit. So it's most definitely just "instant" like they claim. It would just be fun to watch everything growing if you don't want instant gratification.

I fertilized before I transplanted. I did a very light coating in the new pots, but not very heavy.

Thanks guys. As it's not a big deal, I'll leave it at where it is and go from there. I don't remember when they actually sprouted at this point.... mid March. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they will reach maturity sometime between now and the end of this month?

You might start getting some flowers by the end of this month, Kat (judging by the pictures you posted) but that's a big maybe. Even if you do get a good batch of flowers blooming, that first group of tomatoes to harvest seems to take FORVER, but once they start, they just keep coming and coming and coming. I'm not sure what the growing season is like down there, and how it compares with the one up here. But if a plant your size was in Ohio, it would have flowers within one month's time, and ripe tomatoes within two months time.

Just make sure that you water that thing like crazy once it starts making tomatoes. During 90 degree weather up here, I had to give each plant at least two gallons a day or they just wilt up, and those had in ground root systems, and weren't in pots!

Yours are definitely big enough to go into the ground at this point, Kat. Is that an option for you?

Nope. I don't really have a location to plant them that would be full sun. The home owners association would likely fuss if I put them in the front flowerbed.

Thanks Digs.

Well then you might want to consider upgrading to larger pots. Because I can tell you right now that those pots will cause your tomatoes to become root-bound within a few weeks. Tomato plants have very deep long roots, and if they can't stretch out you'll never get anything off of them. The smallest tub that I've ever been able to grow a tomato in is a 25 gallon barrel. . . you might be able to do it with a smaller one, but I'm not sure.

Depends on the tomato plant and the size of the tomatoes I think. I've seen tomatoes grown quite successfully in pots/planters MUCH smaller than 25 gallon barrels. But I'm no expert on what you actually need.
I too am going to try growing my two tomato plants in pots this year due to the fact that last year they got a TERRIBLE case of tomato blight and barely made it through June. Should be interesting.
To show off the awesomeness of the tomato plant, I thought I'd share a couple pictures.

A few weeks ago, I discovered one of my tomato plants had some pretty significant damage on its stalk and was causing the rest of the plant to look sick. I cut off the tomato just above the damage and stuck it in a jar of water....

Here it is just over two weeks later....

In other news, the pepper plants in the greenhouse are putting on baby peppers like mad. My goal is to get them in the ground this weekend, along with the tomatoes, eggplant, and tomatillos. Don't know if I'll have enough time to plant all of them, but I'll sure give it a try!

Tomato plants can do that?!! I knew that works with lots of stuff but I never thought it worked with tomatos...

Unfortunately for me my parents forgot to water my plant at home which means its pretty much dead...

One of my plants here is also withering, but it's resprouting, cloning, whatever you want to call it too, so I'm trying to figure out the best thing to do for it... I'll try and attach some pics later, for advice.

At least my cactus is doing well, that's what I like about cacti, you don't have to worry so much about forgetting to water them...