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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.

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.

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

valmarg

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The speckling or the curl, dj?

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

Ah!

Tim - curly leaves at the top


but respectable fruit below?