to gardengurl49 I live in the tropics and had exactly and precisely the same problem which I solved by bringing the coleus into the house. It was in bright light outside and simply did not like it. Each evening when I went to water it already had some but was very wilted. So I brought it in doors and presto.. it does not wilt now. When instructions for plants say 'full sun', or bright light then here in the tropics it does not apply because the sun is hotter. The same for any country, full sun in the North is far weaker than in the south. Let any plant tell you what it is happy with. If it wilts it needs more shade.

Yes, I added bark mulch just before this week of all rain. Maybe it was the combination of the bark mulch and all the rain. Hopefully they will recover. I'll move some bark mulch away to see if it improves. Thanks.

The paler, variegated sections of the leaves seem to be more sensitive to their environment around them. I would highly recommend rainwater, or reverse osmosis-filtered water. My preference is for collecting and storing up rainwater because it's essentially free. These past couple of days have dumped buckets of rain all over my whole state (Arkansas), as well as many others. I have run out of one gallon bottles to store all of this fresh water in, and I had to go buy some more juice. I like the Sunny D bottles because they have a good handle on them and I can fit six one gallon bottles perfectly into the crates that I store them in out in my garage. I started collecting rainwater for my carnivorous plants, but since then I have began using it to water my other plants that are sensitive to tap water as well, including my Hawaiian spider plant. Since then, all of the problems that I was having with it have all gone away.

Dave, Thank you. I know they are leggy :( unfortunately, it's one of the only spots where I can actually grow halfway decent tomatoes other than the wood bed in the side yard. As a result, I always plant the more productive cherry type tomatoes knowing I will get a decent harvest, albeit smaller than if they were full plants. I promise though that they actually look worse than normal because I have cut a ton of leaves off because of early blight. It was one of the only options to control it because up until about the last week or two it literally would rain every day or two making applying daconil nearly impossible and I honestly didn't feel comfortable applying it that often. We got over 3" in a week about 2 weeks ago... This bed actually has problems retaining moisture because it is full of wood/bark mulch as it was when I bought it. I know that is bad and I was going to change the soil this year, but an injury earlier in the year made that plan a bust. I will be putting in new soil next year. When I pulled the one plant up, and checked the soil, it was fairly dry, not bone dry, but not saturated either. today was actually the first day I watered my plants since planting (other than to feed) since I planted them. It has been almost a week at least since it rained, and with it this hot, I thought it was a water issue. The ones wilting from the heat though and very mild and barely noticeable with only the top leaves showing problems in the absolute midday sun. As for the mulch, I do not know anything about where it came from other than it is straw that was bought from a hardware/ feed store up the street. It has been on the plants for 2 months since the day I planted them. The ones in the wood box bed have the same mulch and no problems are seen. I'm just wondering if I should pull the plant up or let it be? Do you think it could be a result of the miracle gro? That was the only thing that changed before this happened. Also, if it was bacterial wilt, would the cutting have recovered like it did? I'm not sure what to do at this point... Dawn