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    Help for my Cherry Tomatos

    Hi all! I am new to the forum and I hope you will be able to help me. I have 11 Cherry Tomato plants which I have grown from a seed in containers. Once they were big enough and the weather was good I took them out in the garden. They were fine, but from some time are showing signs for some problem. The problem areas are only on the leaves. I am feeding them regularly with tomato feed and I water them regularly too. There are small insects which are on the plants and I have sprayed them twice with bug killer for veggies. You can see what the insects look like and what is the condition of the leaves. I have big book for gardening but I am not sure what their problem is and what is the treatment. I don't want them to die because they have so many fruits....
    Thank you in advance for the help!!!



    Last edited by SilentGoddess; 28-06-2009, 10:16 AM.
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    Could well be sun scorch, do you spray or water at all during the day. If you do then the drops of water act as a lens and the sun burns the leaf. Take off any badly affected leaves and only water in early morning or in evenings.

    Ian

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    • #3
      No I never spray when the sun is up. The only time when it can happen is when it rains. When I water them I pour the water directly in the pot and not over the plants.

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      • #4
        They look fine - the plants won't look perfect. As long as the plant looks healthy overall then don't worry...we've got some toms in containers whose leaves look like that...
        Last edited by smallblueplanet; 28-06-2009, 01:00 PM.
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        • #5
          Wot Manda says. When I last looked at my toms I had several leaves that were a bit brown and tatty, but not at all worried. As long as the fruit continue to grow, thats what matters.
          If the plants start to show real signs of damage then post more piccys. I'm certainly no expert but if I saw that in my garden I wouldnt be bothered.
          Bob Leponge
          Life's disappointments are so much harder to take if you don't know any swear words.

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          • #6
            I think they're fine too. 'Real' plants aren't perfect. In fact today I removed the first few leaves from each tom in the greenhouse to allow for better air circulation and to aid ripening. These were mainly manky looking leaves so they all look much better now!
            Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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            • #7
              I am not so sure if it's only burned from the sun. It is possible that this is the reason because here often rains and then the sun is shining but still. Even though I water them regularly the plants look little bit tired and the leafs are light green and not healthy dark green. Even on some this brown spots are spreading slowly. Is it possible to be some deficiency of elements? I am confused because the leaves look very poor and the plants have so many fruits.
              Last edited by SilentGoddess; 04-07-2009, 10:39 AM.

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              • #8
                Some of mine are doing that and I'm fairly sure it's due to both sun and wind damage. I'm not sure where you are but we've had a lot of wind over the last few weeks as well as the sun and rain. I just take ioff the really badly damaged leaves and don't worry. The fruits still seem to be coming along fine.

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                • #9
                  Well this is the new condition of some of the leafs. There is something like a white moss on the tip of the dying ones.


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                  • #10
                    they could have lost some nutrients, go to the chemists and buy some epsom salts, sprinkle around the base of the plants and water, do this twice a week until they look healthy again, pick off the bad looking leaves. i had a similar prob 2 years ago and always have a stock of epsom salts!
                    Dont worry about tomorrow, live for today

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                    • #11
                      That furry stuff looks like Botritis, try and gently tale off any effected bits (as it easily spreads spores) and put in the bin or burn - it tends to happen when things get too humid so increase ventilation if you can. If you do a search on the forum or google you'll find loads about it!

                      I had it big time last year on inside tomatoes and even got a touch on some french beans outside
                      Jiving on down to the beach to see the blue and the gray, seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day!

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