Hi!

Any idea what's going on with my Black Krim tomato plants? All new growth above the first flowers is densely packed, kind of curled, but not really curled, more like wadded up.

I am growing six Tasmanian Chocolates and six Black Krim tomato plants from seed. The TC are doing quite well, while all six of the BK began well but all new growth above the first flowering is densely wadded up, kind of curled but not really. Looking this issue up on the internet suggest curly leaf disease, however, the difference with mine is that they appear very robust, not scrawny and spindly? I do not use pesticides. Too much nitrogen maybe? It's curios the TC plants are not exhibiting this behavior.

Technical details:

First time growing tomatoes as an "adult." :p

Coastal Southern California, zone 10a

Both varieties are growing in home-made self-watering containers using landscape fabric and buckets, varying from 3-7 gallon of soil.

Soil is 5-1-1 (bark fines broken down to 3 parts fine bark mulch and 2 parts seedling orchid bark, peat or coconut coir, perlite or pumice). peat/coir and perlite/pumice depends on which bucket, as I ran out of one while prepping the soil. All soil was amended with some local organic worm castings, espoma lime, and a bit of Dr. Earth all purpose fertilizer (4-6-5) and downtoearth neem seed meal (6-1-2)**. The soil was prepared and moistened one month before transplanting seedlings to it to allow for pH stabilization. When seedlings transplanted, root hole was dusted with 1T Extreme Gardening Mykos. Transplanted to these final containers at beginning of june (~4 weeks ago), they were buried deep and have grown strong in nearly 4 weeks... until now.

Fertilizing began two weeks ago using urban farms texas tomato food weekly, 1T per gallon of water, each plant receives about 1/2 gallon fertilized water, however, I am beginning 2x/week now since the plants are 2ft tall. Six of each variety growing next to each other, the area should get about 9-11 hours of sun... except for all the june gloom in the morning here in so-cal :) with lots of wind in the afternoon. I may have given all tomatoes a spritz on their leaves with DynaGro Foliage Pro while I was tending to other plants (my actual garden soil is poor). I checked pH a couple weeks ago and depending on coir vs peat mixes, they ranged 6.4-7. I can check again if recommended, however, I'm not seeing correlation between the varying peat vs coir.

Thank you for any help :)

** I know these numbers aren't ideal for tomatoes, but thinking was they were close enough to a balanced fertilizer for initial boost to the plants, with actual feeding to follow from UF TTF. Also, I understand organic fertilizers are tricky and possibly ineffective with container plants, however, consider temps here have been consistently temperate and the soil is well aerated with landscape fabric-based "grow bags".