OR they are sensing the shorter days and are preparing for winter. Look closely, most everything is currently preparing for winter. Our trees are setting buds, thickening bark, adding caliper, all in preparation. Very few trees will grow straight through. Our freeman maples grow right up to summer solstice, then stop.They add caliper while growing, but then stop for about a month or so (no doubt now growing roots) followed by an increase of caliper again. Our Oklahoma Redbud, grows to solstice, then adds caliper.Tulip Tree grows and adds caliper until solstice, then stops and I assumes grows mostly roots. Point being, is that while the pattern varies, once the days begin to grow shorter, changes are triggered and you can not expect the same unvarying behavior. You seedlings need to be preparing for winter, and top growth is not preparing for winter plus uses resources that need to be stored away (part of what drives a caliper increase) for next spring. The Weed-B-Gon was a coincidence. Correlation does not prove causation. Arktrees

It does sound strange to have this one plant be affected, but I do have 5 others of same variety right next to it, another in the the house garden and none of them are looking like this even though we had almost 3" of rain this week. I will try to get out back with the camera and take a picture of the plant and its neighbor. I'm wondering since this is a cherry tomato (wish I remembered which "doctor", I figured I'd know from color so just planted alternating colors, I know which reds are the GD and which are SS100, Camp Joy is farther south, yellows I only have 2 Ester Hess - marked - Galinas is PL, Dr. C is not) whether I should replace but I don't know which to replace it with, I have 1 Green Dr left in 6 pack and 1 Dr. C that looks good (put in garage this week to protect from storms and DH didn't water so the other isn't looking good). But those may be stunted from being rootbound so long, and I do have 6 others of this variety (5 next to this 1 and 1 in house garden) so guess I can wait to see if it recovers. Just bugging me not knowing what/where this came from, worrying now that entire crop of tomatoes and beans may be at risk (if not this year then in future) if a neighbor is spraying and it's drifting out to my "back 40". Farmer to east of us just sold a large parcel of his land (I don't know how much, know it included barn) supposedly to 1 person who is building there, but has more acreage for sale sharing a property line with us. More land (60 acres) for sale on our road, the owner's DD (and SIL?) were walking it the other day, got lost, called police who sent 4 cruisers "listen for sirens" they told them on cell phone. They came out by my garage, cruiser came down driveway, I went out to find middle-aged couple (woman younger than me but man looked older) standing in my driveway. They said they'd seen a roof and headed toward it, police came to meet them (3 other cruisers in cul de sac where my cousins were shooting hoops). They refused lemonade and water, decided to walk back to their car 1/2 mile up the road rather than take ride in cruiser. I think they were embarrassed. But DH and I are wondering what else is going to change as land gets sold around us - more herbicide drift, more wildlife being driven our way, more "lost hikers" (lady wasn't dressed for woods, had low hiking-type shoes w/ lug soles on but short socks, capris - hope she checked for ticks). Just glad they didn't run into the mama bear with twin cubs the neighbors up that way have seen. People didn't have map with them or they would have known that once they went behind a couple houses to south of their ROW they were off her mom's property (grandpa's old farm subdivided years ago). Of course, they didn't figure out that if they went in the ROW and headed south (to the right) that if they turned right again (west) they would have come back to road, I guess they wandered east a little and lost sight of the houses/road, probably looking for the marker. Good thing they didn't head straight back (for longer or at all) east or they might have ended up at that other farm miles away, been really lost as there are 100's of acres back there. I don't know how much is wooded (most of our 96 acres) but a lot. With at least 3 adult bears (tagged) we've individually ID'd plus some juveniles from the past years' cubs. Not to mention coyotes who are getting upset from the construction since I've heard them during the day.

Be warned that we are seeing significant damage to live oaks in this region (Florida) following use of herbicides containing metsulfuron methyl. The Scott's Company replaced atrazine with msm in their "Bonus S Weed/Feed" against our advice, and had to recall the product after a few months and pay homeowners for damage to lawns. No mention of payment for oaks, but it should be happening... Here is an extension article we wrote on it: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr400 Beware if you use these products (Blade, Manor, Mansion etc.) near oaks.

I do see some changes to the edges of the healthy plant you show for comparison purposes--some very slight thickening/puckering/browning. Could it be that the roma variety isn't as good at dealing with hot, dry wind and it's in a location that's less sheltered than your other plant of the same variety? this plant sits pretty much in the middle of my garden and nothing on the outer perimeter have shown any kind of damage. Tomatoes are particularly sensitive to herbicides. If your perimeter plants are less susceptible, it's possible they'd show no symptoms but your tomatoes would. That said, it seems unlikely that only the one plant would be affected by drift. My best guess is environmental or less likely but possibly a virus. What does the very newest growth on the affected plant look like?