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Hello, I have one tomato plant (pictured below) that has brown/white dry leaves mainly at the bottom of the plant, I have seperated it from my other plants and none of them seem to have this. Does anyone know what it is?/ Potential Cures? or is it beyond saving?

The plant seems otherwise healthy and is flowering and growing normally, but i don't know much about diseases.

Your help is much apreciated thanks.

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The pictures seem rather grainy to me but fom the look of them I would hazzard a guess that the plant has either had a touch of frost, or a bit of scorch where water has been on the leaves and the sun has scorched it? Waterlogged compost is another possibility. Anyone been spraying weedkiller near by that has drifted and scorched the leaves?

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I have thought about scorched but it seems to be mainly the leaves tht are out of direct sunlight that are most affected, It is though on a double glazed windowstill. I haven't used any sprays or weedkillers, but i suppose it could have evaporated. Do you rekon it will be alright with the other plants, I have a walk in green house with a PVC cover which isn't clear so allows light but not to much

Hi Toby,
Could also be magnesium deficiency. Give 'em a dose of epsom salts, find a foilar spray with magnesium in it and hope for the best. Good idea to keep it away from the others just but!

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I find when I have tomato plants inside the house their leaves can tend to go a bit like this. I think it's due to the dryness of the air? Whatever it is, once they go outside they are fine...tho I think those dodgy leaves will not recover, just eventually drop off. I'd suggest certainly having it outside during the day, mine are in a plastic greenhouse outside at night too (don't forget to harden off if you are going to leave outside at night)

I'd chop the affected leaves off, give the plant a feed, and keep it away from the other plants just in case.

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I would pot it up or plant it. Looks a big plant for that pot - I suspect it's running out of food if nothing else.

Foliar (spray) tonics are just the job to get things back on track. At this time of year, as they get towards planting time, some of my tomato plants are running on empty so I use an Epsom salts spray (1 to 2 tsp in a pint of water) and a seaweed spray (dilute as instructions - they vary).

Between them, and together with some new compost giving a nitrogen boost, these tonics provide the necessary trace elements to help the plants get through a tough patch.

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Geo..

I would pot it on into a much bigger pot, and sink it down as far as possible at the same time.

Mmm....Looks hungry, plant as deep as poss in new pot. Spray leaves with maxicrop seaweed extract as a general tonic. (epsom salts is best for yellow veining=magnisium deficiency)

Leaf prob is scorch, were leaves wet in sunlight? (magnifiying effect of droplets). It could be frost or weedkiller but looks like sun scorch to me.

Does not look like anything some TLC won't sort out

Welcome to the vine by the way.

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Thanks for your answers. I was going to repot it this weekend, but I'll probably do it tomorrow. I am planning to put it into its final position, So what pot size will I need? Its a marmande variety of tomato.

i will also put it outside during the day, its suppose to be a heat wave end of this week.

my Tomato feed says it contains magnesium. would this be much on the pack it says 0.06 w/w of magnase. but i don't know if thats sufficient or not.

Is it Manganese or Magnesium?

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