please help! :(

16 years ago

I have had such good luck with my mater plants since I have been growing them from seed, but this year I have yellowing leaves from bottom of plant to midlevel. No spots whatsoever, just yellowing! I do see some whiteflies and tiny green bugs on underside of leaves! can they be doing all that to it. The toms are solar fire, Im in zone 8. We just had a hard rain yesterday and they seeem worst!! I have 47 mater plants and not all of them are doing this, but they are planted together. They are about 3 ft tall, and have larger than golf ball size toms on them. Any help will be apreciated. I will try to post pic, but can't promise i know how. thanks again. Darlene

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terrybull
16 years ago
We just had a hard rain yesterday and they seeem worst!! too much h20.
digdirt2
16 years ago
Agree the most likely cause is too much water. Next most likely is not enough nutrients, specifically nitrogen.

Whiteflies can spread disease as can aphids (the tiny green bugs) so you need to treat the plants for both of those. You can do some Google research on them by name or use the search here to read about both and the recommended treatments.

Dave
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darlene4022
Original Author
16 years ago
well, I'm figuring out that it is not too much water, but some kind of disease! the leaves are yellowing and turning brown, the stems are brown with some kind of maybe mold or something, which disease could this be? I have tried to upload pictures to no avail. any help apreciated.
Darlene
taz6122
16 years ago
Download picture to photobucket or any other hosting site then copy the HTML code from under the picture and paste it in your reply here.
Bets
16 years ago
Darlene,

To include a photo in your post, use the following code:

Replace the Web address above with the URL of your image.

It's a good idea to use a reasonable size photo, say about 320x320 or so.

NOTE: If you use an image hosting service such as Photobucket, Flickr, etc, copy the image URL by right-clicking on the image, not by selecting the text in your browser's address bar. The image URL should end with .jpg or .gif Don't copy the Web page URL.

Hope that helps.

If you use Picasa as a host, let me know, I have directions for their site too.

Betsy
tdscpa
16 years ago
Betsy:

I hate to intrude here, but I use Picasa, and could use help. Have been totally unable to figure out how to post a photo, rather than a link.

Would appreciate an email with instructions.

Tom
darlene4022
Original Author
16 years ago
trying to post pics, disease toms! which disease? any info will help. it has ben a few days since these pics were taken, but it took me that long to figure out how to post pics, thanks for the help with how to. the plants stems have brownish color to them, the flowers are dying on the stem. the leaves are yellowing, but no spots. I thinking maybe some kind of wilt? any help would be apreciated. I grew these from seed. thanks again Darlene

Here is a link that might be useful: