O/T sick tomatoe plant

Nancy Howell · May 27, 2009

Planted some more 'maters on Sat. The leaves on one of them are curling under, mostly at the top of the plant. Its not wilting, but doesn't look good. Any ideas?

bruster · May 27, 2009

Hi Nancy!
I transplanted mine 2 weeks ago, but with the hot dry days, they took a week with evening watering before they started looking like they were coming back around (compost tea helps)

E.B. Haymakin' · May 27, 2009

Do you use epsom salt on the plants. My tomatoes didn"t do well until I started using epsom salt on them.

BigMarvfromGa · May 27, 2009

I"m having the same problem Nancy, the upper leaves curl but the leaves still stay green. I have been using a product called Daconil (1 to 2 tablespoons per gallon) which helps. If I could a day without the rain, I could probably cure them with it

greenbeanman in Kansas · May 27, 2009

Kansas State has just updated a tomato informational page. You might see if your tomato ill is described in it. Link below. Note that it is a PDF. Foxit will bring it right up.
Kansas State Tomato Leaf and Fruit Diseases and Disorders

Nancy Howell · May 27, 2009

I googled daconil and it may be some nasty stuff. From reading about it, it looks like it may be a fungicide.

There is nothing on the leaves - no discoloration, spots, etc.

Easy fungicide is 4 tablespoons baking soda to a gal of water. I might give this a try next w/e.

Nancy Howell · May 27, 2009

No, but I've heard of it. What's the application rate?

Coloken · May 27, 2009

Greenbeen, would you check that address again..brings up side dressing for me, not disease.

greenbeanman in Kansas · May 27, 2009

So sorry I didn't realize that part of the newsletter I received had another url in it.

The correct one is below.

Oh well, my mistake so two for the price of one. lol
Correct link.

Coloken · May 27, 2009

Any kind of stress can do this. I doubt you have any nasty viruses or such yet. I would remind every one that too dry can cause wilting, but so can too much water. Tomato forums says more tomatoes are over watered than anything else.
Kenny

glennster · May 27, 2009

nancy, throw a couple tablespoons at each plant. my nursery buddy said you can grow tomatoes directly in epsoms salts, its magnesium sulphate. they like it.

Nancy Howell · May 27, 2009

googled tomato diseases and got a great hit with pictures, but none matched what this plant is doing. Here's the link, maybe it will be helpful for some of you.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver.

ddl · May 27, 2009

http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/CoopExt/4dmg/Pests/Diseases/tomaprob.htm

At the bottom of this page is leaf curl

El Toro · May 27, 2009

Too much rain on tomatoes is worse than not enough. Here are several of my plants I grew from seed. I used old rotted straw for weed control. I used shredded paper and grass clippings too. I used Rapid Gro or Miracle Gro when I transplanted them to the garden. Several weeks later I gave each plant one teaspoon of Root Blast that has a low analysis of 2%N, 1% Phosphate and 2% Potash. I use heavy reinforcement wire for cages too as it makes it easier to pick them. You can do a search for Root Blast. Hal

This is the Chad cherry that gets about big as
a 50 cent coin.

This is a Big Beef plant. My wife bought one of these last year and I saved some seed and planted
the seed back in March. They're not the Beefsteak tomatoes.

Mike (WA) · May 27, 2009

You have to be careful about putting that extra "e" on the end of "tomato". Hope you're not running for office- remember when Dan Quayle insisted on spelling it "potatoe" at the spelling bee? That was the beginning of the end of his political career! ;>)

twopop · May 27, 2009

versarium wilt a vascular disease,if you bought them all from the same grower,they will most likely all do it eventually.pull it up and destroy,replant with one from differant grower.

unless you smoke and touched the plant with nicotine on your hands.

pull it up

Nancy Howell · May 27, 2009

The individual leaves are not curling or rolling, it the whole branch and its only the top 2 or 3.

From the end to where the branch comes out from the plant is curled under like its been in a hair curler. I've never seen this before. So far its just one plant.

James Howell · May 27, 2009

Here's a picture of what looked like healthy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TQ3pC9W1o4&feature=related"> tomato plants </a>grown in NE Texas many years ago.

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Never produced any tomatoes so the fellow just piled them up and burned them.

kyplowboy · May 27, 2009

Them don't set fruit till up in the fall. Not good on a sandwiich but I have heard tell they are good dehydrated.

Dave

bc · May 27, 2009

Yup. Looks like the classic ditch weed tomato plant. Bet the guy hung around to clear his sinuses while he burned them. Then he got the munchies and wished he had some tomatoes. Growing five or more of those ditch weed tomatoes is a major felony around here.

Traditional Farmer · May 28, 2009

Probably not a whole lot can be done for them now.I use a product called Neptune's Harvest fish/kelp mix that I mix up and dip the plants that I'm getting ready to transplant usually makes them take right off.

bruster · May 28, 2009

Wow James! My BIL grew those in his mother's garden 35 years ago and told her they were TREE tomatoes! He got rid of 'em after they got buds, cause they didn't smell like tomato plants! He replaced them with some hot peppers (mom never said a thing!)

Hobo,NC · May 28, 2009

I have some do'n that but they are green with no other problems.

A trick I learned this year and it works great,,, when you plant yer mater cut the bottom out of a gal. milk jug and set it over the plant,,, leave it till the plant starts to grow out the top/lid of the jug,,, tried it and did not loose a plant,,, the plants took root and look great when the jug was removed

tjdub · May 28, 2009

Nancy, it's probably just transplant stress. It seems like this happens to all plants that I start in my house. Is that what you did? The seedlings I buy don't suffer from this so much because they're pre-conditioned for the temperature changes. With my own seedlings, even though I take my trays out of the house all day when it warms up to condition them, they still suffer when transplanted. I don't bother with leaving them out at night, since they might as well be in the ground at that point. Give them two weeks and they will probably make a full recovery. Also, make sure you don't over-water them. Tomato plants seem to suffer if you water them too often.

Doug in Illinois · May 28, 2009

Looks just like some of the volunteer tomato plants we get every year back at the Nebraska farm. They never seem to set any tomatoes either, but sure seems to draw the fruitcakes out to harvest it. DOUG

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