Herbicide damage plants (update)

[duajones]

As I have already posted, I had 3 plants that were hit with overspray by a neighbors lawn service. One didnt make it (Black and Brown Boar) and two survived (Cherokee Purple and JD's Special C-Tex)
While they were stunted badly, they bounced back in a big way. They both are now larger both height and width wise than their sister plants that recieved no damage, and they are just loaded with fruit. And while most of my other non cherry plants are already struggling badly to set fruit ,these are still flowering well and continue to set.
I am completely surprised by these tough customers, I figured plant size and production would be no where near the other plants.
Its almost like the early stress made them even stronger in the long run.

[kath]

Sorry about your Black and Brown Boar, but it's amazing that the others seem better than ever. About 1/2 my plants were severely frost damaged, but I left some of them in place to see what would happen, and they all sprouted side shoots all the way from ground level up to the top; some of them even kept growing from the tip. I never realized how tough tomato plants are until this year! Hope we don't have any more disasters ahead.

[matertoo]

Glad things went well for you and your toms. I've seen this happen before in cases of accidental herbicide drift. Competing weeds got zapped by the herbicide, leaving your tomatos to grow competetion free from weeds.

Happy Matering,

Paul