Help: Tomato leaves curling and flowers drying up
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Comments (5)I regret to disagree with Sinfonian but tomato leaf curl can just as easily be caused by too much water as too little. ;) Tomato leaf curl is a common problem. It is physiological response of the plant to stress - any stress. Too much fertilizer, inconsistent soil moisture levels such as the excessive rain you have been experiencing, pest problems, or excess pruning. The important thing is it is not harmful to the plant, usually cures itself with time as the plant matures and the weather stabilizes, and it doesn't interfere with production. You will find many discussions about Tomato Leaf Curl over on the Growing Tomatoes forum and I have linked some of them for you below. Once your weather stabilizes, mulching those plants well will benefit them greatly. ;) Dave Here is a link that might be useful: Tomato Leaf Curl discussions......See MoreTomato leaves curling and flowers are falling
Comments (1)Has it been hot lately? It looks like heat stress. Maybe your sprinklers are not getting the water deep enough. Try letting a hose barely trickle and leave it at the base of a plant for several hours. If that plant seems to improve, you can do it for the other plants....See MoreTomato leaves curling up
Comments (1)Tranger, Tomato leaves turning yellow with no other apparent symptoms merely indicate some sort of stress, and yes, that includes excessively wet soil. If any brownish/blackish/purplish splotches, blotches or circular lesions appear along with the yellow leaves, then it would indicate a disease issue, and at this time of year, normally a bacterial or fungal one. The leaves curling upward is known as physiological leaf roll or leaf curl and it is caused by several things, including moisture stress, temperatures that are too cool, herbicide damage or there's another one called nonparasitic leaf roll, but then the regular leaf roll is nonparisitic too so that's a silly name, isn't it? Leaf roll also can be caused by the sudden onset of very hot temperatures after a period of much milder temperatures. Based on the kind of weather we've been having, without seeing your plants, my best guess would be physiological leaf roll caused by all the rain. There is a disease called Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl and there's another 'curly leaf disease' called Beet Curly Top Virus but most of the time they aren't what you're seeing with leaf curl, especially since your yellow leaves are on one plant and the curl is on another. The rolling or curling usually resolves itself 2 or 3 weeks after the heavy moisture fell, but I've seen it go 6 to 8 weeks if the rain keeps falling and falling and falling. With the warm, dry weather currently in our forecast, your soil should dry out fairly quickly and then you'll see the plants unroll or uncurl. Dawn...See MoreHydroponic Tomato Leaves are drying up, Help!
Comments (0)Help, my hydroponic tomato is slowly dying and losing one set of leaves every few days. The lowest branches starting to dry up one set at a time. The top leaves look healthy though. Any idea why? No noticeable pests. Lots of water (this is a wick system) with ph of 5.5 and and 2500 PPM of the standard hydroponic plant food mix. I note that the pH is a bit low so I added more tap water which increases the pH to 6.2 and 1500 PPM. Oh, and it's starting to flower. Is that a factor? Email Comment...See Moregorbelly
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