What is wrong with this picture?
 

Ok, so I have a problem tomato plant.

From right to left in this picture these plants are Sweet 100, Sungold, and Chocolate Cherry. (with a few bell peppers hanging out in between)

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They were all planted on the same day, guess which one is giving me a headache...

That last tomato has had some bad luck. It grew slowly from the start, and then a deer visited and gave it an informal pruning, but the deer snacked on the other two plants as well and they recovered nicely.

What could be causing that last plant to stay stunted? Could it be insects? I have taken a few pictures of the various bugs on the plant.

The plant:

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The suspects:

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So yeah... essentially that last tomato is the neighborhood salad bar.

Any ideas?

Rufus, your pictures are not showing up. Try copying and using the picture link next to the phpBB choice on PicPaste

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Instead of what's wrong with that picture, it looks like something is wrong with all of them. :lol:

Looks like ghost tomato sickness to me. :(
Otherwise known as Tomatergeist.
No cure for it, the only way you can see the tomato plants is through a Medium. :o

Worth

Odd, They worked when I previewed them... lets see if I can make it work this time.

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And just to be sure... here is trying the other way:

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Rufus. Welcome to tomatoville. The problem I had uploading pictures ,the first couple of times I tried it, was to forget to click on the upload button that's to the right of the bottom browse button.

Rufus,

The third pic down is a Lacewing larvae. It is a Good Guy! Don't disturb it.

It will eat tons of what is in your other pictures, which are aphids. Pic number 4 looks like an eaten aphid. And the last pic has a few live aphids, but not a lot of them. I'd encourage the Lacewing larvae and they'll dispatch those few aphids in short order.

The deer munching a lot sure could stunt it. They do that to some roses in the front yard, I just don't expect much from those bushes.

I suppose it's possible also that it could have gotten a virus or something from the aphids, but if that was so, I'd expect the other tomatoes right next to it to be affected too, and they look fine.
So yeah, maybe the deer.

I do believe that larva pic is a Syrphid Fly larva which becomes a Hover Fly. It is beneficial in that it eats aphids. Here is a pic: [URL]http://mint.ippc.orst.edu/syrphid.htm[/URL]

I have been told by old time veggie gardeners that fishing line around your garden or plants will keep deer away. Perhaps put in a few stakes and stretch a couple lengths of fishing wire at various heights between the stakes. I am going to try this in front of my Sunflowers (Mammoth) that I just planted last week along the outside of my garden fence. We have LOTS of deer.