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Tomato leaves spotty and curled
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Posted by westgate 8b Brit.Col. (My Page) on Tue, Jun 23, 09 at 11:55
| I posted this on the "tomato" forum, but thought I might try here as well. I've grown tomnatoes without problems in the dry interior, but have just two Beefsteak in pots in my sunny patio area here. Both have done very well and I have a dozen small tomatoes coming along. Water only soil and no rain on the leaves. The bottom leaves on one plant are turning yellow, spotty and curling up. Help! Is this a major problem or can I ignore it? (I have separated the plants by several feet, in case it is contagious.) |
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RE: Tomato leaves spotty and curled
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- Posted by bboy z8 WA USA (My Page) on
Tue, Jun 23, 09 at 15:11
| Friends who grow tomato plants under cover north of Seattle cut the bottom leaves off soon after planting in order to interfere with one of the blight problems they are prone to here. They may look ridiculously over-pruned at first but they say they develop well anyway. |
RE: Tomato leaves spotty and curled
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| That sounds like a good idea.... I'll cut them off the affected plant and keep an eye on the other to see what develops (other than tomatoes, of course!) |
RE: Tomato leaves spotty and curled
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| Fine Gardening has an online piece on tomatoes, and the author recommends pruning all the branches below the first flowers, as soon as the first flowers appear. I have two tomato plants in containers on the deck, and I tried this with one of them and not the other. Same species, same age, etc. The one I pruned per FG instructions is doing much much better. No spotty, curled, or yellow leaves. And many tomatoes as compared to only a few on the other one. These are Roma tomatoes. |
RE: Tomato leaves spotty and curled
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- Posted by bboy z8 WA USA (My Page) on
Sat, Jun 27, 09 at 15:46
| Branches, or leaves? Pruning the branches is to grow the plant as a single-stemmed vine. Cutting off lowest leaves is for disease prevention. |
RE: Tomato leaves spotty and curled
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| I've just been taking off the leaves, as I want a bushy plant.... my pots are too wobbly to hold a tall vine. They seem to be thriving, anyway! |
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