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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 27
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I plant a bunch of tomatoes (in containers), and things go pretty well. I get some leafminers, but no aphids yet this year, and no mealybugs. It's been reasonably cool in the evenings, and only in the mid-80's during the day.
But... My plants start to look sickly. Bits of them turn yellow. Bits turn brown. Some random spots pop up, and bits start curling in strange ways. Then, I'll get maybe 10 tomatoes total out of 5+ plants (tho this year I've got nearly 40 plants, and therefore hope to get ~80 tomatoes). This year, I've already executed two plants that were looking C/TMV-ish (they were fern-leafing). I've been pulling TONS of leafminer infested leaves off (in some cases nearly stripping the plant). And I still have these leaf issues going on: Can this be related to the water quality (it's pretty heavily chlorinated after the flood), or my care (I'm not consistent about ANYTHING, tho I do water heavily 3 or 4 days out of 7, and fertilize every couple weeks with seaweed or fish emulsion as a soil drench),or the lack of sunlight (they get sun for about 6.5 hours - I'm on a covered, NE facing balcony)? The recycled soil in the pots? Admittedly, the ones having issues seem to be the ones in pots with older soil... Am I just not suited for tomatoes? <sniffle> ![]() |
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