Damaged tomatoes

[greenscrump]

Hello all,

I have been putting my tomato plants outside during the day for the last couple of days as have no ventilation in conservatory.  They were fine yesterday but today I came home from work and found this - could it be wind damage ??  Also, I've been watering them when the sun disappers so don't know what the brown marks could be... any help much appreciated  :'(

brown marks.......





wind damage??

[greenscrump]

[tim]

So far ahead!!

If you hadn't said you water after the sun, scorch would have been a thought for the first two.

I've seen No3 but can't pin it.

[greenscrump]

thanks Tim - I thought that the first two looked like sun scorch also - but don't see how ???  could 3+4 be cos of the wind bashing the leaves against the canes  ???

[tim]

Wait for the expert!

[Tee Gee]

At first I would have said water scorching particularly as we have a hot spell lately, alternatively I thought that they may  have been in contact with overspray from a herbicide(weedkiller)

Then I did a google and I think it is Tomato Leaf curl virus


Have a read of his http://tinyurl.com/23a66p and see what you think!

[greenscrump]

thanks Tee Gee - how depressing !!  The early pics on the link certainly look a lot like whats happened to some of mine, I shall 'quarantine' the affected toms and see what happens next, they all seemed so haelthy and happy until this afternoon  :'(

[Chris Graham]

i had the problem with scorch on my plants but cut the sections off and they have really started to come on well.

[Robert_Brenchley]

How would the plants have got virus this early? Reading the website, it seems to be spread by sucking insects, like many plant viruses.

[greenscrump]

I'm not so sure it is the virus, some of the leaves of the affected plants look similarly battered but they have no other symptoms.  I lined them up in the bath today - nice bright bathroom and not too much wind (from me anyway!!) - and they haven't developed anymore scorch/frayed bits.  Maybe I didn't harden them off early enough before I left them to the elements ??

ChrisG - I cut off the battered and scorched looking bits today and they look so much better.  :)