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A full grown tomato needs, at the minimum, a gallon of water a day. If you are container gardening, then your plant relies on you for everything. It is critcal that you separate the plants into separate containers and give them enough fertilizer, but not so much that you burn the plant. They are from the nightshade family and love heat. Peppers and eggplant are also from the nightshade family. Make sure they get plenty of sunlight. Take a gallon milk-jug, pierce the bottom with a heavy gauge needle about 10-20 times. If you have enough room in your pot, bury it beside the tomato, exposing the spout. Now fill this up daily. Purchase some l powdered Miracle Grow Fertizer. Follow the directions and add this to the water you put in your milk jug. Tomato plants need nitrogen to develop their foliage, phosphorus to develop their fruit, and potssium to develop their root systems. They are heavy feeders and do well with a 10/10/10 fertilizer. The first number is nitrogen, the second is phosphorus, and the third is potassium. Take a wire coat hanger and straighten it out and stick it in your pot. When there is a thunderstorm, it will act as a lightning rod and pull the nitrogen out of the air and direct it to the root of your plant. You may have a disease, but it is more likely that your plant is starving to death. Make sure you do not allow any blossoms (when you get them) to stay on your plant until it is healthy again. Just as you wouldn't want a sick woman or a child to have babies, so it is with your plant. Pluck all the dead leaves off your plants. Good luck.