Can You Grow Tomato in Malaysia?

I believe everyone knows a tomato plant. But did you ever grow it? Well, I tried to grow it numerous times since the beginning of last year but none of them succeeds to survive. Now I'm going to share some of my experience of keeping this plant.

Most of the tomato plants able to succeed to grow as seedlings with beautiful green leaves. The tomato seed I got was from Australia. During this time onwards, you have to always keep an eye on the small bugs which would sucks on the back of the leaves. It was white in colour. If you did not control well, they would multiply in a flash speed which might cause the plant becomes weak.

This was one of the tomato plants that grew tomato fruit in the end. I always trimmed the lower branch near to the soil which was not good for its development. In addition, I also trimmed off the sucker off the plant.

I noticed tomato plants showed by those Youtuber has rather large and green leaves than mine. My tomato plant has rather small leaves.

I triumphed when I saw the first fruiting of my tomato plant. While I expected more as those flowers nearby start to bloom too, I came to disappointment at last.

The other flowers dried and dropped to the soil. That's the only one left on it.

To be honest, I started with 11 seeds and only 8 succeeds to seedlings. Well, from these 8, I propagated through those sucker at the plant to have more tomato plants after they died one after another. With sucker, you could save your time as they grow faster than a seed.

The most common problem was those shown above. Once you saw one of the branches withered, the other would follow too, and this happened only within a few hours of time. They immediately died on the same day.

It was said tomato plant needs a lot of bright light. But I would like to say it could be true in a colder country but not in Malaysia where the weather at the day time could reach 32-degree Celcius. Putting the tomato under the full sun might make them withered as well besides the virus attack mentioned in some websites.

There was another problem with the bugs too as shown above. They made a fine black line within the obvious white line at the leaves. What I did normally when I see this would be trimmed off the infected leaves and threw in the garbage immediately.

I searched through the website and found people using neem oil to spray on it in an organic way without pesticide. This neem oil is not killing the bugs immediately but would able to stop them to propagate which considered as biological control.

My only tomato starts to turn red when still small.

It was approximately 3 cm in size.

Thus from my experience, it was not easy to grow it in Malaysia such a hot weather country. But I heard of a hybrid variety which stands against that virus and bacteria attack as well as the hot weather. I yet try to grow it. Any of you grow tomato before? Share with me your experience if you have!