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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2019
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Hi tomato heads,
Just wondering what causes this kind of growth? It seems kind of random, where it happens to plants that are treated the exact same way as others but they don't get it.... Thanks for any help. ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Victoria. Australia
Posts: 543
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The bottom one looks like a virus
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Tomatovillian™
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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Viruses, as well as some fungal and bacterial diseases, can be transmitted via infected seed.
So that is how it can affect one plant and not others. KarenO |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: West Coast, Canada
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you might check for spider mites - keep thinking I see web bits ......
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hampton, Virginia
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The root ball of these plants is not getting enough room as the Planting pots are too small. Causing your plant to develop stress-related growth that brings fort infections and fungal development.
If I was you; I would start over. Thoroughly clean your planting pots. Use a larger planting pot for your future Tomato Plants.
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Tomatovillian™
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I do plan on putting healthy plants into bigger pots or the ground, but thought it was fine to start them off in such sized ones. Thanks for the input. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hampton, Virginia
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Hello Master Shake
If you are planning on transplanting the 2 plants in the soil of a larger Pot or directly in the Gound in your outside garden, cut off all infected areas of both plants you showed us. All the Historical Heirloom Tomato Plants I dealt with, will generate new growth. Maybe your plants will survive too. It will look like a "Little Charlie Brown Christmas Tree", but may survive the Ground Transplanting Season in your area.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Germany
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Had this look on a plant, were Spider mites, start at 1 plant and then they go to another.
Is when my plants are indoor too long. The mites do not like higher humidity. But tomatos hate humidity too. Seperate from rest, but maybe to late. Plants usually get well after planting in garden. But are of course then a bit slower. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: australia
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I'm not going to lie, tomatoes have been the bane of my gardening existence for a few years already....
I try to stay level headed, but my visions (dreams) of success have just been beaten down into the dirt for 3-4 years, one problem after the other after the other, and it bleeds into my frustrations with my other garden projects.... Still, when my blood cools down, i try to take some kind of lesson away from whatever happened, what else can you do?? Will be planting fewer tomatoes next season, until i get what i consider a good successful season completed.... until then, i'm focusing on other vegetables that don't give me as much trouble. Thanks again peoples. ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Victoria. Australia
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Try dumping the tomato seeds you have and get some new stock and get off to a fresh start.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2007
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The ones that aren't growing properly.
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Location: Hampton, Virginia
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If you are going to trim off all infected leaves "Do Not Cut Off the Very Top Of The Plant.
You will see new growth if you do not cut the top off, Amen!!!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: wisconsin
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This is one of the reasons I grow tomatoes in Earthboxes. In over 15 years, I have lost a total of 4 plants to disease.
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