When I was trying to grow some tomatoes because I wanted to have some fresh food in my house, I wasn’t having much luck outside.
The main problem with the outside was the sun unfortunately. Even though the sun gives the plants life it’s also the killer of things. In this case, that was my tomato plants. The area I live in is really sunny and the heat here in the summer has been very hot and hard to deal with. Because it’s been so hot and hard to deal with, it’s been really taking a toll on my tomato plants. They had wilted so badly that I really didn’t think they would come back but decided that I was going to give it a shot. So I took them inside and I gave them a lot of extra water and I put them in the shade. I still put them near a window so they could get some light but I wanted them to be mostly sheltered. I know this might sound weird but I thought the plants might be hot so I even turned on my air conditioning system to help cool them down. After about a week it passed I noticed that the wilting went away and they started to come back. After a few weeks they were doing great and they looked like they might even produce some tomatoes soon! Now after a couple months I’ve gotten some tomatoes from these plants that I brought back on the brink of death. I know that watering and having the sunlight be close to them but not too much to kill them helped immensely, but I like to think that the air conditioning system helps them too by keeping them cool. I know the air conditioning system always helps me when I’m hot.