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Hi, This is my first year with a "real" garden. I have 15 tomato plants that I either have staked with three stakes to form cages or are actually caged. Two or three plants right in the middle of the row have really been struggling. I will see one day that the tips of the leaves on these particular plants are starting to yellow, the yellow eventually creeps up the whole limb and kills it. At first I just let them be but the limb died so then I started breaking them off when they turn yellow but they keep doing it. I don't think that I am over watering them because there doesn't really seem to be any problems with any of the others. Do they have some kind of disease or fungus or something?? What should I do?? I am in Zone 7 so any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Amy
I'm also in Zone 7. I lost two of my maters after the late cold snap. The nails went in the coffin about two weeks ago when it dropped to the 40s one night.
One mater survived and is setting fruit nicely. I pulled the dead and dying ones and replaced them.
The sweet peppers struggled as well but seem to be recovering now.
Hey Marigold, Have you heard of the virus that is hitting Virginia Tomatoes? They are talking about it over at GG. Not sure where Amy is but could that be it? Crabbergirl
Another Zone 6b/7er here. Check this link, cause without proper "photo id", you won't know exactly what you're dealing with. Click on "tomato" for lists and follow links to photo gallery of tomato problems:
Another method is to snip some leaves and take them to local extension service. They can ID right away. Many of them, however, still offer only chemi-kill solutions to problems. That's where either [u]we[/u] come in or any other source of organic solutions to which you can refer.
Post back and let us know exactly what you find out!
Hi everyone, Thanks for the info. I checked out all of the sites mentioned above and didn't really see anything that fit what is going on with mine. I think I am going to try to take some pictures and post a link (can we do that) and see what you everyone thinks. *Some additional information that I probably should have mentioned in the beginning... The affected plants have many limbs that are not affected on the whole plant, these plants have tomatoes growning on them and they look good no spots etc, and the leaves don't have any holes or anything either.
hey, i think i was wrong about the blight. but this new culprit i found looks promising as your problem from the looks of your pics. check out 4.Fusarium wilt on the link below. it has pics that may help you identify.
this link tells about disease resistant varieties and crop rotation as means of control if either of these fungal diseases are the cause http://ctr.uvm.edu/ctr/gd/gd18.htm
hope this helps. it looks like it could be what you have.
Well, Amy.......you've still got us puzzled?????:| My first thought on seeing your photo, was "chlorosis" Either "tomato chlorosis virus" (which is spread by whitefly), or reg-lar ole chlorosis: iron deficiency.
Having said that, though, here is yet another link that may be of help in i.d. of problem. This ones got veez-uals!
Ok, it did sort of look and sound like the Fusarium wilt but I think I will take a piece of it down to the Cooperative Extension Agency and see what they think. I will let you all know what they say. Thanks again for all your help!!
Yep, I do keep a rather, "Ahem" extensive library (written & puter filed) of garden sense & nonsense!
But, (I guess) by nature and past work experience in news & p.r., I'm into research. Plus.............. I :x doin it! And it's an added "rush" if I know it's gonna be of some benefit to someone!!
Like the signature says: "Knowledge Is Power!".......and I've found that by providing some info for someone else, many times it's in areas I wasn't familiar with in the first place. So I gits ed-u-mu-cated by osmosis!
I have another comment/question about Fusarium Wilt if that's what you're dealing with here.
I've been told the metal basket supports will carry FW over the winter and start it on your new plants. I was also told washing the baskets in a mixture of bleach and water before putting them out each season will prevent this.
Does anyone know the correct mixture of bleach/water? And since I have pool chlorine, what about a chlorine/water mixture ratio?
