Container plant turning brown on top

Fert1 · July 19, 2008

My Cherokee Purple that had been doing so amazingly well in a pot has recently taken a turn for the worse. We've already gotten a good many, large, luscious tomatoes from it, but now I've noticed that the very top leaves are turning brown and shriveling. The stems also have a brownist cast. I didn't know if this was a disease or something caused from growing in a pot.

It's not the same disease symptoms I see from plants in the ground. Has anyone experienced anything similar? Have any ideas as to cause?

Even if I never get another ripe tomato from the plant, it has already yielded as much as any CP I've grown in the ground, (prior to the disease problem). So I would still have to consider the experiment a success for the most part. I just wish I knew what was going on with it now though. I'd love to get even more tomatoes from it if possible. I don't think it's lack of water, because it is no hotter now than it was the first week of June, and it made it through that heat wave just fine.

So any ideas?

July 19, 2008	#1
Fert1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Upstate SC, Zone 7 Posts: 543	Container plant turning brown on top My Cherokee Purple that had been doing so amazingly well in a pot has recently taken a turn for the worse. We've already gotten a good many, large, luscious tomatoes from it, but now I've noticed that the very top leaves are turning brown and shriveling. The stems also have a brownist cast. I didn't know if this was a disease or something caused from growing in a pot. It's not the same disease symptoms I see from plants in the ground. Has anyone experienced anything similar? Have any ideas as to cause? Even if I never get another ripe tomato from the plant, it has already yielded as much as any CP I've grown in the ground, (prior to the disease problem). So I would still have to consider the experiment a success for the most part. I just wish I knew what was going on with it now though. I'd love to get even more tomatoes from it if possible. I don't think it's lack of water, because it is no hotter now than it was the first week of June, and it made it through that heat wave just fine. So any ideas? __________________ Holly