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Urban Tomato Mystery - Spots on leaves in apt plants

wendybird70
16 years ago

Hello all you tomato gurus! I have a real urban mystery. I have started several varieties of heirloom tomatoes in my fifth floor city apartment. The window gets ample natural light and they were doing quite well for weeks.

Then, suddenly, I had an infestation of white flies. This totally baffles me. Odds are, I guess, they hatched from the potting soil. I can't imagine they were flying by my fifth floor apartment, wandered through the screen, and thought "Hey fellas, we hit the jackpot!" But who knows?

In a crazy, non-organic fit as I was about to leave town last weekend, I very gently and sparsely sprayed a few of the larger ones with some evil, bad, no-good murderous pesticide. The whiteflies have abated, but in no way moved on to someone else's apartment.

In the meantime, my tomatoes have developed this weird yellow spotting with darker spots on the edges and in the middle. Not uniform. Not on every plant. And again, these are all indoor plants.

So this could be the flies, the pesticide or something else completely different.

Any thoughts would be so appreciated! I'll include one photo and links to the rest.

http://richtwes.homestead.com/files/wendybird5/tom1.jpg

http://richtwes.homestead.com/files/wendybird5/tom2.jpg

http://richtwes.homestead.com/files/wendybird5/tom3.jpg

http://richtwes.homestead.com/files/wendybird5/tom4.jpg

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