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June 6, 2007 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Pennsylvania Zone 6
Posts: 461
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Please look at these pics. Is something wrong?
I took these pics today. The 4 plants shown are 2 Uglies and 2 Moskovich. The Ugly on the left looks great as do the Moskovich in the middle. The Ugly on the right looks bad to me. The leaves are rolled up and they and the stems have a purplish tint. It has been this way for about 3 weeks. As you can see it has a lot of fruits and blossoms. It just doesn't seem to have many new leaves and the leaves it does have are pretty bad looking. The first pic is of all 4 plants. The next 4 pics are of the bad Ugly. The last 3 pics are of the good Ugly.
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June 6, 2007 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: PNW
Posts: 4,743
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See
http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/hort_inq...leaf_roll.html Here is a page with photos of leaves on tomato plants with mineral deficiency symptoms, not mentioned above: http://4e.plantphys.net/article.php?ch=5&id=289 Usually leaf curl is environmental, a reaction to stress from too much water, too little water, root damage, rapid temperature changes, etc. (I don't know how you get too much water in a self-watering Earthbox; don't those things have overflow holes in the sides?) The hints of purple on the bottoms of the leaves are suspicious, though. That could be a mild mineral deficiency. (Tablespoon each of kelp and comfrey leaf in the water? At worst, nothing happens.)
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June 6, 2007 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2007
Location: South Central Kansas
Posts: 14
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Purple on the stem is an excellent indication of potassium deficiency. Shot of Epsom salts mixed in with a low nitrogen and high potassium and potash fertilizer should get him happy again.
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June 13, 2007 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Abilene, TX zone 7
Posts: 1,478
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This spring, I had something similar, and concluded my plants were hit by chemical herbicide drift. They grew out of it, some have produced, others have not. I don't know if this is a possibility in your area.
At first glance, I thought my plants had mosaic virus, which didn't make sense. Good luck. |
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