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Old May 19, 2012   #1
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Default Grainy white-silver-gray stuff curling leaves

So I've got something stunting one of my tomato plants, it's currently about half the size of all my others. It seems to be curling/tacoing all of my older leaves while it develops a grainy looking area around the edges of the leaves.

It ranges in color from a whiteish silver on some leaves to a darker gray on others.

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Old May 20, 2012   #2
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Spider mites.

See http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7405.html
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Old May 24, 2012   #3
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hmm... put it under an x45 scope and didn't see any of them, but the damage does look similar to a few I found on google....
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are u talking about the fuzzy lint looking stuff? if it was spider mite webbing you definitely could see those if you look close without a scope because the time they put out webs there already pretty big and very visible to the naked eye... plus you would have spotting on the leaves and i don't see that... from what i can see looks like a fungus of some sort... i think its just the early signs of it though... hows the humidity where your @
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If you have spider mites, I would recommend commencing spraying the undersides of the leaves with this:



Available at SummerWinds in most of California.

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sprayed with some organic copper fungicide on these plants and they seem to be doing much better, so it was likely some type of fungus. However now I am dealing with some type of wilt on my other plants... not getting any breaks this year
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Oh and humidity is usually a non-issue where I'm at.
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