What happen to my tomato leaves? Please help!

Jack Mak

3 years ago

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vgkg Z-7 Va
3 years ago
Check the underside of the leaves for any webbing, to me it resembles spider mite damage (best guess). Google up images of SMs on tomato plants for comparison.
vgkg Z-7 Va
3 years ago
I just now noticed what appears to be tiny mites on the lower pic's leaves (little beige colored specks, esp on the left).
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It is called 'tomato leaf roll' and you can find lots of info about it over on the Growing Tomatoes forum here or by Googling that term. Basically it is a physiological response of the plant to stress but poses to real threat to the plant over all. Once the source of the stress goes away so does the condition. The causes of stress can be as simple as the fact that it is young and growing or as complicated as poor soil drainage problems, excess nitrogen fertilizer, too much or too little water, etc. It is fairly common in early spring with young plants exposed to spring weather extremes. Your plant appears to be rather leggy which makes me question if it is getting enough sun and it could also use some mulch to help stabilize the soil moisture levels. Dave
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I just found this forum today and the URL to your pic isn't working for me. Anyway, about powdery mildew, if the baking soda mixture didn't work, try neem oil. Neem is great stuff and you can now find in almost any store that has a gardening section. It's approved for organic gardens. You can soak a plant down with it and not burn it. It kills fungus, mites and insects but isn't a poison.
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I am wondering if, with all this rain and accompanying overcast skies on the east coast, our plants' "outside cuticles" are not really adjusting to outdoor sunlight but are getting sunburned when they are exposed to bright light for short periods of time. If ten days pass with very little bright sunlight, they're quite likely to develop new growth that isn't used to it. It seems to be happening for a lot of people who say they hardened off their plants before setting them in their permanent home.
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It looks like you have a few inches between the top of the pot and the top of the mix. You haven't told us what variety/ies you're growing, so we can't recommend how large a pot they'd like (and I am not an expert in that sort of thing anyway), but I'd just like to point out that if the experts say you need a larger pot, you do have room to add more mix at the top (tomatoes will happily grow additional roots higher up on the stem).
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
3 years ago
tomatoes are not really house plants... and it wont be easy trying to make them such ...

so there could be a myriad of issues making the plants weak ... allowing for an infestation of other problems ...

if they were outside .. how did you 'clean' them.. before you brought them in ... in case there is another try next year ...

have you isolated them yet??? ... you dont really want to spread this to all your houseplants ...

how do you plan on caring for these absolute full sun plants indoors all winter??? ..lights.. humidity ... outgrowing the small pots they are in .. etc ...

im sure there is something there.. but im not convinced you can 'see' a spider mite.. in a pic ... or im wrong.. whatever ... lol

it will be a fun experiment.. and you will learn something for sure ... but dont get upset.. if you fail .... the learning is for next time ...

ken

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What happen to my tomato leaves? Please help!

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