Okay, I'll stop putting them out for awhile. Is there anything else I can do to help them recover? Sorry but I don't think you understand what we are saying. You cannot radically change the environment of a plant without damage. The damage is done now since they weren't hardened off first so you might as well leave them out. The damaged parts will die and fall off but the new growth will slowly replace it and should be ok . Taking them back inside only to move them back out side later on will only reverse the progress made and then cause more damage. Plants need to be very gradually - over a period of 7-10 days - exposed to the the outside when they have been grown indoors. This is called Hardening Off and there are FAQs here as well as lots of internet info about it.. They never go from inside directly into the bright sun. Rather they go in slow steps from inside out into the world. First to sheltered shade like a screen porch or under a deck, then into shade protected from wind and high temps, then into light sun for a few hours, and gradually over several days into more and more sun for longer periods. And once they start out they don't go back indoors again except briefly in the case of severe storms or such. Dave

Hi! :-) I have had a lot of success with Mater Magic organic fertilizer. I never have any blossom end drop or leaf issues. I water when the first 3 inches of top soil are dry. Also, thuricide for caterpillar control. Both are OMRI approved organic. Here are some pics of my early girl three and a half weeks ago when I planted and a recent picture. If you have questions, ask away! I've been through just about everything under the sun when it comes to tomato plants! Good luck :-) Day 1 Day 18

I leave some leaves on, and take some off. If there's chance of disease or fungus, I remove them. However, if the chance is low, they stay on. The reason for leaving them on the plant is that some nutrients are mobile. The plant will extract the water and the mobile nutrients to use in another part of the plant, seal off the petiole, then drop the leaf.

But...but...but... it's only baking soda! Is it bad for seedlings? I read somewhere that they use baking soda spray for gnats and other tiny insects. Re the black fungus, my camera can't show it very well but in the last photo, the tiny leaf is black on one side. I'm thinking of separating them from the rest of the healthy seedlings. I hardened them the past few days although yesterday, we had a lot of rain so I wasn't able to take them out. Maybe it wasn't as gradual as I thought? Because I left them out the whole day today. The medium is compost with dried rice husks. The cups have holes on the bottom and drain fairly well.