Thanks for your thoughts! Last night I did take off the bottom branch & amazingly this morning the plant has perked up again!

The drooping can be from excess water in the root zone. Some of my container plants do that after very heavy rains, especially if the containers are sitting in saucers. As the water drains off, the plant perks up. Probably nothing to do with the pruning, although the pruning is a good idea because keeping damaged leaves on the plant is generally a bad idea unless the plant doesn't have enough healthy leaves to photosynthesize.

Thank you, I had considered that. Unfortunately this afternoon it quickly started to droop again. As Silverstein once said "pull it!" So I did. I couldn't stop thinking there was some kind of fungus climbing up. I replanted the pot with a few young tomato plants about 6" which I had grown from seed. We shall see as nothing I've planted this year is really growing well; which I believe is from the fact that we have had very little sunshine & way too much rain. Even the ginger hasn't started to grow. If we get an hour or two of sun per day that's about it, so this summer doesn't appear it will be very productive! Maybe this year I'll be able to get in more rest!

There is no fungus I know of that looks that that. It really looked like classic burn. Maybe atypical pest damage.

Drooping is also not a symptom of any foliar fungus. It's a root issue.

The rain could be a problem. I would double-check the drainage in that pot before planting anything else in there. Dig down all the way to the bottom and make sure it's not sludgy, compacted, etc. down there. Otherwise, your new plants will just continue to droop of you continue to get lots of rain.

Thank you for your comment. When considering your original comment of sunburn what bothered me was that we haven't had a lot of sun, so how would just a few hours of morning sun per day cause it? You had also mentioned the plant may not have been hardened off, but the store I purchased it at always has their plants outside & not in a greenhouse so I didn't feel further limits were needed. Perhaps I'm wrong?

The container is the same one I've used for years with success tomatoes so I believe it has enough drainage holes. in planting the new tomatoes I plan to keep an eye out for any new problems. Thanks for your help

All I know is that the pattern of leaf damage is not like any fungal or bacterial foliar disease I know of. It really looks like some kind of burn to me. If not sunburn from sun alone, then burn from droplets of a liquid that pooled on the leaves. Possibly atypical fertilizer burn, although fertilizer burn from soil fertilizer usually manifests at root tips and edges. But excess fertilizer would also cause wilting/drooping, which is why I mention it.

But as I said, it could also be atypical pest damage. It wouldn't be aphids or mites--damage from those pests doesn't look like that. It would be something that chews, like a beetle, grasshopper, etc. Occasionally, very young caterpillars leave damage that looks something like that. They'll be under the leaves and very well camouflaged.

PS--you won't find aphid eggs on plants. The aphids that attack tomatoes reproduce through giving birth to live clones once they're on the plant. If you found eggs, they were from something else. I wish you'd kept a photo of what you found.

Thank you for your interest! Lucky you I DID take a photo before washing off the eggs, hope you can figure it out. I hope you can see them, they are most prevalent along the top leaf stem. With all the rain we have been bombarded with black flies; maybe it's from them?

As per the fertilizer burn I think you are correct on that because I had freshly added it before transplanting. Put in some 10-10-10, bone meal & some Osmocote ( 15-9-12 and also has trace elements of Magnesium, Sulfur, Boron, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum & Zinc). I really appreciate all your help!

I added arrows to help you see the problem! Thanks

Houzz photos have terrible resolution, so I can't say for sure what that is. But it doesn't look like eggs or pests. It looks like residue from some kind of spray or dust that has flowed into the channels of the leaf and settled there.

I'll try one more time enlarging the photo, sorry I don't know what size photo requirements your site has. I don't know why my first photos came in nice & large & these come in small(just when we don't want them to) I even tried both two button to upload. If your computer has any kind of photo program such as Paint you may be able to save the photo & zoom in on it to see that the leaves are definitely covered in eggs. Besides if it was something that blew on the plant then all my other plants would show the same thing, which they don't. Well, thanks anyway for all your hard work. I'm learning a lot here.

It's not my site. All I know is that Houzz reduces down any photos we upload. It makes it very hard to make out fine detail.

But FWIW, if that's definitely not grit or dust or precipitate from a spray, the most likely culprit is very young whitefly nymphs or maybe mites.

Maybe the greenhouse had a problem with whitefly or mites and sprayed sulfur or malathion. When the sprayed leaves got exposed to strong sun one day, the leaves burned. Some pesticides are notorious for burning leaves. If you google images for "tomato foliage pesticide burn", you'll see many photos that resemble what you have on your leaves.

Thank you again for your reply. It's a shame you can't get a close up. Anyway I think you are on to something about where I purchased the plant, they may have used a pesticide. I try to grow organically & use neem oil if needed. Because of having so many flies after the rainstorm I'ld guess they are fly eggs. I didn't see spider webbing for it to be mites (I do get them but usually at the end of summer where I am). So I guess that settles it. Thank you again for all of your input, it's been a helpful experience. I'll definitely recommend this site to others! One last thing I'll share, here's the sunset from last night seen from my back yard porch. May all your days be filled with a beautiful ending!

Do the brown spots contain a bulls-eye pattern, like this:

I can't tell from your photos, but if you see a bulls-eye pattern, your tomatoes probably have Early Blight. https://www.planetnatural.com/pest-problem-solver/plant-disease/early-blight/

Sorry. Check out the link above. Copy the picture and paste it into a program that handles pictures. Then enlarge the picture to see the pattern.

Thanks anyway but no, it's not early blight. I did post a large pic at the beginning for all to see. I pulled that plant but coincidental you should reply as I was just out taking a photo of a DIFFERENT Tomato plant I'm curious about....why the top leaves are wilting yet the rest of the plant looks healthy. Don't see any evidence of pest damage. It has grown up quickly though so maybe that has something to do with it. Any ideas ?

Did you get bad storms moving through recently? It looks like it could be from some kind of mechnical damage.

Oh yeah, we've had way too many storms lately & way too many cloudy days. The last storm was a few days ago so I didn't water it for 2 days. This morning the sun was out strong so I finally decided to water it. At that time it looked fine. It was AFTER the watering about 4-5 hours later I noticed the wilting.

As you can see I keep my containers on a porch & usually pull them back away from the rain when possible so I'm in control of the water level & I don't like relying on Old Man Weather, he's too disagreeable lately! Did you mean mechanical damage, meaning exactly what?

I meant physical damage from wind, heavy rain drops/hail, etc. Given that the leaves look a bit shredded and the wilting is accompanied by no discoloration at all and is clearly very defined and very limited to just the topmost growth, I would suspect the damage to the circulatory system in the top area of the plant from a storm or even an animal or wind or someone accidentally hitting that part of the plant. Perhaps the compromise to plant circulation didn't become evident until the weather got warmer and drier and the transpiration demand increased.

Thank you for your reply, that makes sense. So now how long should I wait to see if it will perk up or should I remove those branches?

I'd cut off any leaves that are totally limp. By which I mean not just hanging down but totally floppy with no turgidity in them. They're probably not going to recover or, if they do, they'll have to come off anyway as they'll develop yellow and brown patches.

What's the variety?

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