Hi all,
I've got 6 tomato plants, and leaf curl on just one of them. This is a "Gold Medal" heirloom (thought it was a hybrid when I bought seed, oops), and it's just not looking happy. We've had some 90 + days, humidity and lots of rain.
We have foliar disease pressure, I do spray chlorythalonil and can't always do it on a cloudy day in optimum conditions -- if I have to spray while the sun is out, I do it in the morning at least while it's a bit cooler. This particular plant is in the shade until about 10:30 a.m in any case.
I wonder if it's sensitive to the chlorythalonil, or being sprayed while sunny (none of the others have reacted this way), or sensitive to heat, or has leaf curl disease?
The mature leaves that are the most curled are slightly crispy, but not totally. New growth looks good, and some of the other growth as well. One tomato is deformed, the rest look okay.
I haven't seen any pests, had several leaves with what looks like early blight to me (snipped off and disposed of), mulching with straw. Soil has not dried out to my knowledge, I check it, watering when needed with a soaker hose under weed block.
My other plants are fine. Thanks if anyone has any ideas why this plant isn't happy.
If the pics don't show properly I think you could just go to my profile and see the leaf curl album, if you don't mind a couple extra clicks of the mouse, thanks!
