Despite identical treatment - grow bags - indoors - 2 varieties, both small plums - wilting tops. Sickly looking.
Tim a lot of people are complaining of sick toms this year i presume you have the greenhouse ventilated adequately we have had a warm snap from being cool all i can say is sorry and hope they recover for you as you had problems with blight last year as well
Tim, If you don't then ::) Are they on the same side of the GH. Ours differ from one side to the other but must admit they don't look that bad, maybe it's the heat
1. Certainly they first drooped in the heat - my fault - forgot to prepare. But 13 other varieties are fine??
2. Vents? 24 in 30'. Plus door. I'm a venty person. Plus shading - a bit late!
3. Position? Some on sunny side, others in middle.
Never ever had this before.
I have three types of plant, long keeper, bulgarian purple and beef steak, that look similar to the one on the right, as if they had been sprayed with weed killer.
I put it down to greenhouse being very hot when they were babies, but just guessing, , potted up the Bulgarian purple and put it outside to see what happens, flowers look ok but plant looks very ill and weedy.
I notice that I have one Costoluto that's gone that way.
Could your grow bags be contaminated?
This is a bit like what ours looked like last year in soil with aminopyralid contaminated manure
QuoteCertainly they first drooped in the heat - my fault - forgot to prepare.
Don't worry Tim we all get those moments.................correction I get these moments ;D
Thought for today!Having grown Tomatoes for more years than I can remember I am wondering if the 'body' has been bred out of some of the varieties?
I am a bit of a traditionalist and mainly grow the tried and tested varieties that have been around the UK for years, and never had problems like those that are about today.
I have one new variety this year and one of my plants has succumbed in a similar manner!
It is a new variety (can't recall the name) that was on display at Tatton park show last and I tasted it and liked it, so much so I wrapped the seeds up in a paper tissue and saved them.
I germinated them this spring and they performed like the rest of the varieties I have grown.
It is an interesting variety in so far as it looks quite different from the others in the greenhouse. It has a very bushy growing tip, the leaves form about 2" apart.
Personally I think it is a bush variety although I am growing it as a cordon.
Waiting now to taste the fruits of my labour.
By the way I have named it; Tatton original isn't it? ::) it will go well with the other varieties I have named.
Namely;
Feurta...............from a tomato I brought back from Feurtaventura in the Canaries
Calahonda ..........ditto a village of Calahonda in southern Spain
Eddies...................ditto I got from my mate Eddy
Josie..............ditto grown by a lady on our allotments.
I save the seed each year from a tomato taken from each variety to prolong the strain.
Before anyone tells me that they won't come true to variety let me tell you
'I dont care' ;) ;D
I like them, my family likes them and people I have given 'tasters' to like them.
Even my grandson who up to a couple of years ago wouldn't eat a tomato .........he likes them!
And to me thats what growing for yourself is all about!
Sorry Tim....I'm having another one of those moments and rambling again! ;)
hahahaha! You tell 'em TeeGee! And I like the way you name your tomatoes.
Keep going, TG - I read every dot & carry you write!
In passing - forgot to say that in one bag, one of the 3 plants is perfect.
Curiouser & curiouser??
How odd...that would certainly suggest it was the plants at fault rather than any external factors. Are they showing any signs of recovery/worsening yet Tim?
Funny coincidence Tee Gee, I call one of mine Secretts as I bought some toms from their garden centre in Guildford and liked them, saved some seed and when growing they have close trusses about 6-8 inches apart and a nice strong plant.