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Old July 29, 2009   #1
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I have a couple of fall tomatoes that are not doing very well. I have tried everything I know to do but nothing seems to help. This is a magnified picture of a leaf and frankly I don’t know if this is normal. They just keep wilting even though they get adequate water and fertilizer.
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Old July 29, 2009   #2
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I'm not used to seeing tomato leaves up that close. Could you back it up a bit?
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Old August 1, 2009   #3
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Here is the picture of the poor thing and an adjacent tomato unaffected. The sick tomato is a solar fire and the other is a Bella Rosa. The new big dwarfs (not shown in the picture) are doing well with no problems. Out of the eight tomatoes , only three are sick. Karpes
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What does the stem look like in the inch above the soil line?
I would look there for signs of systemic disease.

The twisted up leaf in the upper left corner looks a bit like
a virus-infected leaf (pull immediately in that case, as it
is probably carried by insects), but it could just be the end
result of an advanced systemic infection that started in
the soil.
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Old August 3, 2009   #5
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Thanks Dice
I did pull all three of them and they did not have a good root system. It took only a slight tug and they popped out of the ground. To the burn pile they go.
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