I really goofed up!! I was cutting off the yellowing leaves on the bottom of my tomato plant. Twice, instead of CUTTING them off with my clippers, I PULLED them off, and managed to pull off some of the outer layer of the main stem. Now I'm afraid that I may have done damage that will allow diseases and pests to enter my plant. Do I need to do something to fix this? Thank you for your help!

Someone may come along and correct me but I've done that and nothing happened except the area that was cut dried up and the plant carried on just fine.

pinkruffles said:I really goofed up!! I was cutting off the yellowing leaves on the bottom of my tomato plant. Twice, instead of CUTTING them off with my clippers, I PULLED them off, and managed to pull off some of the outer layer of the main stem. Now I'm afraid that I may have done damage that will allow diseases and pests to enter my plant. Do I need to do something to fix this? Thank you for your help!

Nope, I do that all the time and nothing has ever happened. It's good to avoid it because it can, in theory, allow diseases in, but it's pretty unlikely anything will happen. It'll dry out and become pretty impenetrable like a scab pretty quickly.

I do that all the time. Wait and see. But I know in California I don't have any problem.