Several different problems. With pics.

14 years ago

Hello!

Our tomatoes are starting to have problems and I hope I could get some directions. This is our first year garden. We dug up some lawn and added a foot of composted cattle/sheep manure. We planted them out in late april and they did great until 2-3 weeks ago (except for the specled roma that always seemed wilty). All the plants show older leaves curled upwards. The Black from Tula looks like this:

It started in the lower leaves and is slowly spreading upwards.

The other Black Krim looks like this:

It's just the new growth.

The Specled Roma always looked like crap but now worse than ever:

Very wilty and sparse spindly new growth. The first two pics is off a shoot that I took off. The rest of the plant don't have that.

Symptoms get worse in wet weather and I added Miracle grow tomato fert only to see if I could correct deficiencies but I could not notice any change really. This is our first garden and we still trying things out.

Also I almost forgot. It's not a tomato leaf but we have these white marks on almost all out plants and we don't know what it is, anyone?

Thanks for taking your time!

Johnn Mpls

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Comments (6)

cole_robbie
14 years ago
Did you add other fertilizer besides the manure? It looks like you have nutrient deficiencies. The last pic looks like thrip damage.
l979
Original Author
14 years ago
Yes, I added Miracle grows Tomato fertilizer once or twice to see if it made a differens but nothing really happened. Also we've done worm compost tea every three weeks where I also add a little bat guano (10-10-2, 0-12-0) and sulfate of potash(0-0-50).
Thrips... where're all my beneficial buddies to eat them...;)
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ncrealestateguy
14 years ago
I agree with Cole Robbie. Nutrient deficiency and thrip damage. The thrips are found inside the tight buds and the flowers. Blow your breath into a flower bud and you will probably see them. The nutrient problem may not be a deficiency but rather an imbalanced ratio of nutrients.
l979
Original Author
14 years ago
I'm not sure what to do know. Could fertilizing add to the imbalance?
dickiefickle
14 years ago
Looks like a curly top disease, then too much watering ,then Late Blight , check and match up from this link

Here is a link that might be useful: tom disease ID
edweather USDA 9a, HZ 9, Sunset 28
14 years ago
I don't have much experience with disease and insects, but the really dark plant looks over fertilized, and the very light green one looks under nourished.