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Can I bring them back to life?

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TimeForMy10thCuppa · 30/05/2019 20:29

My mum picked me up a few tomato plants and popped them in the garden. She told me about them but I completely forgot. The leaves are all wilted. Is there a way to bring them back?
Also I was in Morrisons earlier and they had a strawberry plant reduced to 10p and another plant reduced to 25p. So I picked them both up. The strawberry one has plants bits coming through but again look very wilted.
The other one has a couple flowers on it but they are rather crispy sounding.

As you can probably already tell, I'm not green fingered. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Fucksandflowers · 30/05/2019 20:49

Soak in a sink full of cool water for a few hours then plant them out in the morning and water regularly would be my advice.
Hopefully they will recover

LazyLemur · 01/06/2019 12:20

If they are wilty, green and soft, they'll probably recover if they are given a good water.
If the leaves feel crispy or papery or like clingfilm, the leaves have had it but the plant might not have.
They usually spring back quickly with a good drink.

If they remain wilty and start to look proper dead even with a lot of watering, they probably have fusarium wilt and should be destroyed (although it doesnt sound like this is the problem)

I had a pepper last year that got way too dry and leaves all died, but after a week or two of TLC sprouted a whole new set of leaves!

Strawberries send out continuous new leaves and flowers from underground, even if the top leaves look crap. Keep them cool and wet until you can see new healthy shoots coming from the middle. This can take a little longer. I'm doing this right now with some bare root strawberries I was sent about a week ago and they are starting to look fab.

Plants are tough little things and want to live. With poorly plants I like to keep them in their pots on an appropriate not too sunny not too shady windowsill where I can keep a close eye until they have recovered sufficiently. Keep very wilty ones in the shade.

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