extreme leaf curl?

[My Foot Smells]

one of the cuttings of cherokee purple is displaying some extreme leaf curl on new growth. temps have been in the 60's with a little rain.

thinking about yanking this one - but wondering if any one knows what is going on. i usally experience some leaf curl during very hot weather, but conditions have been ideal lately.

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[TightenUp]

looks like someone sprayed some herbicide near you

that's the only one showing this?

[My Foot Smells]

Yes. Have three cuttings, rest I started from seed. No chems, only have one neighbor several yards away. This is one of the cuttings, so unsure of growing practice or mother plant. I was skeptic of taking them, but another expert gardener. I've never grown a tomato plant from a cutting (why), so now thinking of yanking that dude up. I have 50 on standby I grew from seed.

[ginger2778]

This may be interesting. Yours looks like broad leaf herbicide damage, but several things mimick that. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/v...st-or-Curl.pdf

Regardless, you should pull that one, it's not ever going to do well.

[My Foot Smells]

Thanks Ginger, good article by tamu. Have had lots of wind, but this is the only one that has any problems, the plants from seed are textbook at this point.

It's hard for me to tell, as the plants from seed have tripled in size since transplant and the cuttings have sat there like a bump on a pickle. Probably more mental, as I am used to monitored the progress in stages. Just b/c you stick a big stalk in the ground, doesn't mean it is better, imo. I received them in pretty poor shape, but they perked up when caretaking in the gh. ppl are "impressed" by the early size, but the others are catching up quickly. The lanky cuttings just seem out of synch with natural progression.

Regardless, will yank her this morning and replace with some fresh stock. Not into nursing at this stage of the game.

Probably won't do a cutting again unless the other two produce without incident.

[Cole_Robbie]

I bought some bagged compost one year that gave me plants like that. It either had herbicide contamination, or its mineral content was off and had one of the minor elements in far too much quantity.

[My Foot Smells]

Possible, but who knows. This is what you get when you take plants from other people. You bust your rear trying to get your garden right, and then everyone wants to donate something to have you grow - as to take some sort of partial credit.

My garden expeirment is not only one of growing things, but also try to create an oasis for enjoyment. Obviously, gardening is a great hobby to decompress and is therapeutic; a much needed benefit in today's society.

I love nature and learning things. But maybe in modern day gardening, everyone is real quick to pull the trigger on herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides. Tomato plants were here long before any of that stuff and probably be around long after mankind has done themselves in. Personally, I try to lay off the juice; but there are times I indulge. Blight can be a real booger down here, but through trial and error, I find that well drained soil is essential. I grow in raised beds on top of modeling clay. Those that plant in the ground, the just succumb to planting more plants to overcome - one method I suppose.

[creister]

I had a few plants that did that a few years ago. It happened when they were a bit larger. I let them grow for a few more weeks, they didn't improve or decline, so I pulled them out.

[Locomatto]

Several years back I had a touch of roundup drift over my garden from an open field 50 - 100 yards away. They looked just like that ... waited all year for them to recover. They never did.