Water issue or disease?

10 years ago

Hello! I'm a newbie when it comes to gardening and was wondering what is affecting my tomato plants at the moment. One of em is really bad, two others are kind of in the midst of getting there, and my fourth is just starting.

I have done a bit of google fu but been unable to find anything that looks similar to my plants. The worst affected is about a foot shorter than the other two, but that might be because of its type? Unfortunately, I do not know what kind of plants I got (just a few different sorts...?)

Anyway, without further ado...

Now, the pictures sort of look like mold (?) but in person it doesn't look fuzzy or anything. It looks like the leaves got bleached pure white. The stems look fine, as do the flowers on the other plants.

^ this one's the least affected.

They were planted late may/early june.

Someone said they maybe weren't getting enough water (usually every 1-2 days... ish). They're in the sun a fair bit. The first week or so they were planted it was straight rain, but it's been around 20-30C since. Someone else figures it's a really bad infection. If it's the latter, should I pull them? Or can any of them maybe be salvaged? S:

Thanks in advance for your time.

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drtomato
10 years ago
sun scald- water the soil, Does not do anything to get water on foliage but promote disease and sunburn
edweather USDA 9a, HZ 9, Sunset 28
10 years ago
Agree with sunscald. My first thought was that you had a lot of cloudy cool weather and then hot and sunny. Not a big deal anyway. Don't pull them, they're doin' good imo.
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Windmill_Key
Original Author
10 years ago
Oh, that's a relief! ... On the one hand I'm glad they're apparently not infected...
On the other I'm a little ashamed I may have helped hurt the poor things haha. Oops.

Thank you both for the advice! (:
seysonn
10 years ago
Did you sprinkle granular fertilizer around the base ? !' I can see some there. Probably few fell on those leaves and burned them. Those leaves are too tough to get sunscald,, IMO.
The last long shot picture shows a healthy, normal plant.
Windmill_Key
Original Author
10 years ago
I have used some sort of food twice now (10-10-10?) and that stuff I tried my best to keep only at the base of my plants. But as for fertilizer...
I had a tiny bit of dirt left over in a bag from quite some time ago and my mom unceremoniously dumped it in between of my two left-most plants, so that's probably what that is (not sure it was fertilizer though? S: It wouldn't have gotten on the two right ones, in any case, and a few of their leaves are whitish too~