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Transplanted my tomatoes into 7-gallon grow bags on Sunday of last week (8 days ago).
- DIY potting mix w/ approximately equal parts store bought garden soil, peat/coco mix, and compost, w/ a few handfuls of perlite and a touch of granulated all purpose fertilizer mixed in.
- Mid-Atlantic region of the US (zone 7). They currently sit on my back porch, which faces northeast and gets about 4 hours of direct sunlight per day before they're in the shade. Weather has been mostly sunny w/ highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s.
- I watered them right after transplanting plus two more times since then (no fertilizer, just straight from the tap or hose), so about every third day.
Is this transplant shock or do I have some other problem? I've tried following this guide (Why Your Tomato Leaves Have Brown Tips), but since the brown tips affect all the leaves (oldest and youngest), I'm unsure of the most likely issue, so in the absence of a clear indicator I'll likely just keep doing what I'm doing and hope for the best.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Clarified some things and fixed a few typos.
Yeah, I knew this would be an issue, problem is I'm on the northwest side of a duplex, and the short stretch of southwest-facing facade that I have are my driveway and garage. Only about six feet of my mulch bed wraps around to that southwest side (and it's already occupied by other plants), so for now, all my veggies are on my (northeast-facing) deck, but since they're all in containers, I might repurpose that little stretch of southwest-facing mulch bed, and I could potentially line my driveway with containers. The other caveat is that my driveway is slightly sloped, so... definitely not ideal. It just so happens that all the veggies I'd want to grow (tomatoes, peppers, cukes) love sun, and my physical environment is oriented the wrong way to maximize daily sunlight.