I guess three things I try to do are
1) supplemental feed with good tomato fertilizer higher in phosphorus and potassium and including micro nutrients like calcium and magnesium, and probiotics
2) try to keep up with foliage disease by preventive spraying (milk spray, beneficial microbes and probiotic spray, eggshell/shellfish vinegar spray) and removing affected leaves especially if the disease start affecting leaves above fruits — I don’t want to remove entire leaf so I try to remove leaflets - BEFORE; AFTER; REMOVED LEAFLETS
3) Once the hot days arrive and we’ve had some tropical storm remnants blow through, I start seeing the “hot weather pests” like hornworms and pinworms.
- Hornworms are difficult to spot but if you look over your plants regularly and feel like some leaves are missing or just don’t look right, start looking for hornworm poop
- Pinworms can be found by looking for dried up leaflets and translucent spots. Sometimes two leaflets are stuck together. They multiple rapidly if allowed to matuere, so be diligent