Rick This year i am growing indian princess nasturtiums, orange bell peppers, mammoth dill weed, garlic chives, Texas sweet onions, yellow bell peppers, vine strawberries, california wonder bells, serrano peppers, jalapeno early organic peppers, san marzano maters, bush strawberries, early girl maters, cherry maters, a dwarf lime tree, and a partridge in a pear tree. :> tobacco use on plants...sprinkle dry tobacco around the outside of the container and even inside it if it's big enough. Never get itt where it will ever drain on any roots and you'll be fine. peace - Steve

Hi Marion, Do the stems feel soft an mushy? If so then yes. Cut to healthy tissue and replant. Lucky for you these guys are easy to propagate and should be just fine. If they aren't soft then I would just leave them out, just like you have in that pic, to dry/air out and for any roots that did get damaged to callous over before the repot. Do the same for the other succulents you have in that pot. Be as gentle as you can. Its hard sometimes though. Especially in standard store bough mix that gets hard and compact. So, do the mix like I said. And if you have to leave the plants out of the soil for a few days while you get everything together - that is just fine. Then repot all of them into the new mix. Remember to use either pumice or perlite. I have never found pumice in my area, but some say they prefer it over perlite. Unfortunately, I have never found an easy way to pot several plants in one pot. I feel like I always make a mess. Just be patient with the process :-) p.s. here id a photo of my burros tail - a very similar plant. I get annoyed sometimes that it is so fragile and the leave break off from even a gentle touch. But I just toss the leaf in the pot and it grows a new one. So these guys are super easy to propagate!

Thanks everyone for the responses! I was concerned because it seemed as if the leaves were yellowing/shrivelling up quite quickly. While the photo I posted on Monday didn't have any shrivelled up leaves, a couple leaves were starting to yellow and the plant has lost a large amount of leaves since I first got it. The temperatures have been between 15C-25C the last few weeks. Last week had some colder days so I had to bring them inside for few days. My plants are on a balcony so they get some morning light and late afternoon sun. At least 4 hours of afternoon soon - probably more. Thanks again for your help!

I wouldn't fret too much about some yellow leaves here and there. Your toms look fine to me. My toms can sometimes look pretty shabby as the season progresses. That said, you want to avoid killing it with kindness. You might be getting some fried roots with a small black pot in direct sun. Water might not be penetrating the newspaper barrier on top of the soil. Tomatoes are resilient enough and do well enough if we just leverage their will to live. :) I grow toms year round in EarthBoxes using Dr Earth organic tom & veg fertilizer (5-7-4). One of the tenets of organic gardening is the use of water insoluble forms on nitrogen (Dr Earth fits the bill). Weekly/weakly fish emulsion and such is fine as well as a supplement, but not necessary. Organic EarthBox tomatoes: