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    Help with tomato plants please

    Hi, Am a newbie to this forum so hello.
    Was just wondering if anyone can help. I have grown tomatoes from seed this summer, in containers. Just moneymaker and gardeners delight as a bit of a newbie. They have fruited and some are ripening now this has happened.


    The background to them is - they are outside in containers, the weather has gone from scorching sun to lots of rain to almost autumnal. I feed them occasionally and I pruned the leaves incorrectly I think. It's my first time with tomatoes.
    Am hoping I have attached the photos correctly. They show blackened leaves on one plant and shrivelled wilting on another 2.
    Thanks.
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    Last edited by Hazzy; 19-08-2014, 04:10 PM.
    Tags: help needed, newbie, problem, tomatoes
  • #2
    Magnesium deficiency or something similar. A couple if mine have done that.
    Someone knowledgeable will be along soon
    Nannys make memories

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    • #3
      They look as if they were desperately short of feed, which is why they turned purple round the edges - but the brown leaves and collapsed stems look as if they have blight now as well

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      • #4
        I would agree with Thelma ^^^.

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        • #5
          Where are you Hazzy, it helps to know then the advice will be more accurate. BTW welcome to the vine.
          Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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          • #6
            Thanks everyone for your help. I meant to put where I live. It's in the East Midlands. Just looked at the feed I use and it has nitrogen not magnesium. Thank you

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            • #7
              Keep up with the feed it add a dash of Epsom salts for the magnesium.
              Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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              • #8
                http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...-blight-2.html

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                • #9
                  Thank you everyone. Will get some Epsom salts tomorrow. I guess if it's blight they are all done for now. A live and learn moment. Next year I shall order some decent seeds in the hope it helps. Shame as they are so nearly ready. Thanks for the link and help I am reading it all avidly.

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                  • #10
                    Our outdoor ones look like that. Probably a combination of nutrient defiency and suuden drop in temps.

                    There's not a great deal you can do about blight, even so called resitant varieties tend to get it eventually. Even last year when it was very dry, our outdoor ones eventully succumbed. I pulled out a Roma the other day which was affected and froze all the toms for green tomato chutney. I only grow spares outside as I've found the only way to avoid it is to grow undercover. I don't think yours have blight though so don't pull them yet.
                    Last edited by Shadylane; 20-08-2014, 08:01 AM.

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