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Damage on Young Plant. A large tomato plant can survive damage better than a young plant, but even a small plant can recover from a broken upper stalk. If the stalk, or stem, is damaged under the lowest branch, however, the plant will not survive.
If your tomato is in a large container, you may have to water more than once a day during the worst heat. Any plants -- flowers, herbs or vegetables -- growing in containers will dry more rapidly than if they were in the ground. How often you water will depend both on the size of the container and what you are growing. But frequent watering poses a problem, too: It leaches nutrients through the soil.