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I read I could speed up the hardening off process by putting the young veggies out on a cloudy over cast day for three days in a row. It was a perfect opportunity because the forecast was cloudy and light rain on Saturday, and cloudy on Monday and Tuesday. Saturday was a light rain, and cloudy day and they did very well,  today ( Sunday)  I worked, and of course It cleared up this afternoon and sunburned some of the tomatoes. Now the forecast is clear and warm, 89 by Tuesday.  I'm not starting over, so I moved them to a spot they will get mostly filtered light.
It seems like I should cut off the badly burned leaves.  The tomatoes are about 2' tall ( yes I started to soon and have repotted them twice now) and have a great root system, so I'm pretty sure they will be ok.
What would you do?    Thanks
 
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If there are a lot of sets of leaves and the plants only got burnt on the top part, they will likely all survive! Can't hurt to trim off the dead stuff if you're worried about buggy critters investigating or bothered by the look, but in my experience tomato plants are also good at healing some after damage/ "separating" the dead part on their own until it's crumbly dry and the rest is fine.
 
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I have found that misting the leaves with the plants in the shade sometimes helps to restore the leaves if they are not too far gone.

I have even lightly brushed leaves with a wet finger to bring the leaves back to life.
 
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In my experience, tomatoes recover pretty well though they might get stunted if they weren't big enough to start off with. My tomatoes are usually 1' or taller by the time I'm hardening them off and I've burned them a few times. I'd let it get a new set of leaves and then bury most of the plant anyway up to those new leaves.

I like whatever shortcuts I can find! I usually stick my plants on my shady porch for a few days to weeks until a cloudy week comes along and then I plant them out. My life is too short to spend hours moving plants back and forth for increasing amounts of time each day. If the plants can't survive my rough treatment, then onto the next variety!
 
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I find that plant leave get burnt or they can boil.

Apparently and others can correct or confirm for us, but if they have had a good drinking prior to a sun burst, the immature leaves can boil with all that fresh water in their new developing system.

So best to let them drink and process the water overnight, so that risk of boiling is minimised.
But leaves etc still can get burnt because of heat and shrivel up to flakes.

My two bobs worth.
 
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