I am almost positive that I had an herbicide problem that ruined my tomato and pepper seedlings last year, and I thought I had gotten past it, but I must be one of the most ignorant gardeners out there. I had some 2-4D in my garage, and last year I had mixed it close to my seedlings. I threw out the herbicide this year but not until December 2008. Even though the container was not opened since maybe September of last year, I know fumes could have been present because you could still smell the fumes from the outside of the container.

Here is a link to the pictures from this year. All of my seedlings seem to start relatively well, but develop symptoms around 6-9 weeks. The new growth just seems to be slightly deformed. It is not as bad as last year, but still evident. In the pictures are two tomatoes. One older Rutgers plant showing symptoms and one younger that looks good. There is also a 3rd Big Beef plant that shows less severe symptoms. Also, if I top the plants off, they seem to grow pretty normally from the suckers (this worked some last year).

I think I can salvage the year by getting plants out of the garage, but I would like to eventually grow my tomato and pepper seedlings in there as I have no problems with any other plants.

Please help

Here is a link that might be useful: Tomato Pictures