Author Topic: What's wrong with my tomato plants? (Read 5826 times)

gardenqueen · « **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2006, 17:08:31 »

Sorry I posted the pic before I had written anything! :-[

My plants had looked healthy until recently but now the leaves are marked as shown in the pic.

Larkspur · « **Reply #2 on:** July 04, 2006, 18:54:46 »

Hi looks like mosaic virus to me but perhaps someone else has a different opinion. Hope so, since there isn't much you can do if it is.

valmarg · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2006, 19:13:42 »

could be magnesium deficiency, and a dose of epsom salts would help.

valmarg

gardenqueen · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2006, 19:27:07 »

Thank you for the possible causes. Having looked them up I am inclined to agree that it is magnesium deficiency suggested by Valmarg.

I will try the epsom salts treatment. What ratio of Epsom Salts to water would I use please?

OllieC · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2006, 20:17:53 »

IIRC, "Tomorite" has Magnesium Oxide in it, as I'm sure other feeds do too. Might do the trick if you're feeding anyway.

greenfingered fiend · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2006, 23:54:49 »

If there is one thing I know a bit more about than anything it's Tom's.

I think it's Magnesium deficient too.

GF

umshamrock · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2006, 10:19:57 »

mine have the same prob! i just got back from the drug store and am now armed with epsom salts. how much should i use?

Apple Dumpling · « **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2006, 11:18:17 »

Dr Hessayon says spray with epsom salts at half an ounce to a pint of water, or use a foliar spray containing magnesium.

tim · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2006, 13:27:36 »

Don't want to counter the advice given but are we not over-reacting a bit? I regard this as the norm.

supersprout · « **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2006, 13:30:52 »

:-[ glad you said it first tim, all my greenhouse toms look like gardenqueen's! :o

tim · « **Reply #11 on:** July 06, 2006, 18:04:36 »

Referring, of course, to the lower leaves.
If they were like that all the way up, I would think again!

supersprout · « **Reply #12 on:** July 06, 2006, 18:57:19 »

Definitely the lower leaves tim, the upper leaves are too curly to tell ;)

tim · « **Reply #13 on:** July 06, 2006, 20:32:13 »

Something's afoot - never known the top ones go curly.

djbrenton · « **Reply #14 on:** July 06, 2006, 23:11:55 »

This was common last year on our site and there was no concensus about what it was. Some treated for magnesium deficiency, others with Bordeaux/Dithane. Everyone seemed to 'solve' it anyway. This year I've ignored it and so far it doesn't seem to have affected fruit or plants so I'm continuing to ignore it.

BTW has anyone else noticed this? Around our site, a wide variety of tomatoes seem to be growing less bushy than normal. Last year by now my plants were crowding each other. This year they're taking up less space despite being as tall and productive. It seems to be common so I'm assuming it's weather related.

greyhound · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2006, 00:53:48 »

I never worry too much as long as the trusses look OK. I figure the leaves are there to take all the flak. Some of mine are really curled up, but they have been subjected to some extremes of temp. being outside since mid May. They've all got plenty of healthy looking baby toms nevertheless.

tim · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2006, 06:12:18 »

The speckling or the curl, dj?

djbrenton · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2006, 10:07:44 »

It's the speckling that seems more common the last couple of years.

tim · « **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2006, 10:27:06 »

supersprout · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2006, 15:56:46 »

Tim - curly leaves at the top

but respectable fruit below?

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