Is there something wrong with these leaves?

[CLa]

I see the same thing on a few plants. Especially Purple Russian. But also on Cherokee green and a bit on one of the sungold stems. Here is a picture of the leaves near the base (older leaves). They looks good.





But here is the newer ones that look interesting, kind of dry maybe?

[missionrandy]

Hi,

How much fertilizer are you feeding the plants?

Randy

[Suze]

Originally Posted by CLa

But here is the newer ones that look interesting, kind of dry maybe?

Do the leaves actually feel dry, maybe along the edges?

Possibilities that come to mind include herbicide damage, or perhaps a virus. Tomato plants are extremely sensitive to even small amounts of herbicide drift. Then again, sometimes new growth on a plant can be a little puny looking if the plant is under stress.

[daylilydude]

Trust me i'm no pro at this but your info says your in Louisiana which part i ask because if your area got flooded with the yukkies that might have something to do with it and from what i seen from that storm it might take a while for it to get leeched out of the ground .


Disregard this if your growing in pots are you didn't get flooded on the grounds i don't know about the grungies .

[CLa]

Well, no chemicals used around here as of yet. No fertilizer but the potting mix I used was sea-green for vegetables, has a .04 .03 .01 slow release, don't think that could be it. Well they are all in the ground now, so too late to shield them from the sun, we will see what happens.

[missionrandy]

Hi,

Potting Soil mixes with slow release fertizer, sometimes can burn new growth! If possible mix soil with no slow release, in or around the plants as good as possible and wet well with plain water.

[Tomatovator]

I got similar looking leaves last year and never did find out what caused them. I blamed it on my neighbor's lawn treatments (overspray) but I was never sure. Most of the plants eventually grew out of it. I took sample leaves to several local nurseries that grow tomato plants but never got a definate answer. One place thought it was some environmental cause and another felt it was some sort of virus.

[sirtanon]

I second Tomatovator - That looks suspiciously like herbicide drift. Keep in mind, that stuff can drift in the air for well over 1/4 of a mile, and all it takes is a little to hurt your plants. Tomatoes are very sensitive to the stuff.

Just keep taking good care of them, like you would with any other tomato plant.. and they should eventually grow out of the problem.

[rzr]

Cla lives around farmland and possibly they still use cropduster planes. Either way its possible herbicide could have come into his dirt from the farmland.

[CLa]

Well, no crops in the fields at the moment, so kind of doubt thats it. But, if it were we would be talking more like a mile away. But I'll ask around, maybe something I don't know about. thanks for the info, who knows, maybe it is the potting soil that is releasing too much nitrogen.