It is hard to diagnose problems on tomato leaves. It can be anything.

This chart maybe help you, check it out.

Silvia

Here is a link that might be useful: tomato leaves problems

Well, I took some cuttings down to my local garden center and they seem to think, wind or to much/little water. They suggested removing the mulch from the containers. Wind, well not much I can do, there is a hurricane cruising past us a Florida will be getting allot of that for another day.

That makes sense, and also there is nothing we can do for the wind. I am getting a lot of wind too. I would rather have the cold, is less damaging to the plants.

I stopped using mulch in containers this season and I noticed that the plants look better without.

It is probably underwater the problem if you are using the 5-1-1, with the wind we are having I made sure everything is watered through, especially the tomatoes in containers.

It will soon pass and plants will return to normal...

Silvia

Funny you should say that, I was at Mounts botanical gardens and spoke with someone there who does not much tomatoes in containers. So half my tomatoes are mulched and half not now. The two that were affected were different varieties then everything else I am growing. Now that it is cooling off, maybe mulch not so important. Maybe just have to water more often with the wind like you said.

I can't mulch my containers or they'll suffer quickly from PM/DM and blight. This is because I'm so close to the water that I have an extremely high humidity. How far are you from the coast?

Tom

mmmm.... About 1/8 mile or so. Probably 6 blocks.

That's close enough, don't mulch, you'll be better off for it, and keep the surface soil as dry as possible...if you're retired water in the morning. I'm not retired and right now I don't have an automatic watering system so I'm forced to water late afternoon, worst time in the world for those of us close to the water with high humidity....

Tom

As of right now, most everything is watered via drip which is connected to my sprinkler system. So (as by law) I water Saturday and Wednesday. As the plants get bigger, I am sure I will have to start hand watering a couple of extra days a week. But I have been checking the soil with a moisture meter, and am seeing the soil dry out. Which is good, cause normally it is registers wet. I think removing the mulch is making a difference.

How often do you water? Are you using well or city?

I was watering with city water, when I switched to well water I swear that is when the plants started to take off. City water seemed to be stunting the plants. It is some hard water, maybe xtra minerals the plants are loving or lack of chlorine.

I have reclaimed water but would not use it on the veggies. If it's not safe to drink it sure can't be safe to put on the veggies, and during times of drought I've noted the salt load is rather high, very smelly, so that for sure can't be good for plants either.

Unfortunately I'm using city water and I think it was Ricky who said it was the chloramines in it are the culprits, retarding growth. I do see a big difference when it rains and when using water out of the rain barrel but that just takes too long, not practical at all....I do want to put in an automatic system so I will obviously be using city water for that. I've had to water every day up until now but as it cools down I'll be able to back off to every 2-3 days.

Tom