I am supposed to prune tomatoes? I recently sprayed my plants with an organic spray - they are infested with tiny spider mite looking critters, and the day after I sprayed the leaves were turning brown. Today the leaves were dead, so I trimmed them off. Is this ok?? I have tomatoes on all varieties of plant at this point, and they look good, just the leaves are struggling.
Thanks!

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Claire

You can tell if you have spider mites if you hold a sheet of white paper under the leaves and tap the leaves. If there are tiny red critters crawling around, they're probably spider mites.
If the leaves are totally eaten up, I would clip them and drop them in soapy water. If there is still some surface area of the leaves, and most of the leaves are infested, I'd spray...but find out exactly what you have, and use the most appropriate spray. Brown leaves, or dying leaves, could be caused by many things, including spraying the wrong product at the wrong time of day.

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Dave
Even my growlights are getting restless!