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Tomato problem I've not seen before....

16 years ago

Sorry..I don't have the camera at present. I have four tomato plants. The one most affected is Parks Whopper, which is of course, loaded with green tomatoes. The leaves turn a bright yellow, which gradually spreads and then the leaf turns brown, usually starting at the edges, sometimes in a kind of circular pattern, but most of the time the whole leaf just turns brown and then the yellow progresses down the stem. I only use seaweed for fertilizer, I don't get the leaves wet, I don't use Roundup anywhere. Fruit not affected. The other plants have had leaves affected but nowhere near as badly as Parks...which is nearly nude at this point...I've even cut whole branches off. Doesn't discriminate between old or new growth..some of the branches most affected are turning yellow themselves and are covered with "dirt" like knobs that are brown..they resemble the green or clear nodes you usually see on tomato stems, only much more...my eyesight is not that great, but they do not appear to be insects and are not moving but attatched.

I have studied TAMU's tomato problem solver and the descriptions just don't fit. If I don't figure out something soon, I may just cut the plant down and fry green tomatoes (Unless they will ripen on the windowsill...but they are still green green...) in an attempt to save the other three.

Help?

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