The sun has cooked the plants - my fault because I didn’t move them out of the blasting sun and put them in shade part of the day. We have already had 105 days a few weeks ago. I found out from Johnny, I screwed up, that full sun in Texas does not mean full sun like in places farther north. These new tomato plants are in a large container and it has wheels so I can move in into shade for the hottest part of the day.
Part of my learning problem has been, I remember my father planting everything and it just grew and produced. That was farther north east Texas. Corn grew, beans, green peas, onions, tomatoes from seed, black eyed peas, beets, turnips, potatoes, figs trees, peaches, plums, hogs, - he put the stuff there and it grew in the ground or in the pig pen. It’s only now I found out there must have been more to it than sticking seeds in the ground.
He didn’t move anything out of the sun to shade but maybe that east Texas being farther north, the Longview area, was not as bad as it is here.
And that, my FRiend, will slap those people hard who buy survival seeds and do nothing but store them away. Too many believe that when the time comes, they'll merely toss some seeds out in the backyard and be eating full harvests two weeks later.