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Old June 6, 2007   #1
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Default Please look at these pics. Is something wrong?

I took these pics today. The 4 plants shown are 2 Uglies and 2 Moskovich. The Ugly on the left looks great as do the Moskovich in the middle. The Ugly on the right looks bad to me. The leaves are rolled up and they and the stems have a purplish tint. It has been this way for about 3 weeks. As you can see it has a lot of fruits and blossoms. It just doesn't seem to have many new leaves and the leaves it does have are pretty bad looking. The first pic is of all 4 plants. The next 4 pics are of the bad Ugly. The last 3 pics are of the good Ugly.
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Old June 6, 2007   #2
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See

http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/hort_inq...leaf_roll.html

Here is a page with photos of leaves on tomato
plants with mineral deficiency symptoms, not mentioned
above:

http://4e.plantphys.net/article.php?ch=5&id=289

Usually leaf curl is environmental, a reaction to stress
from too much water, too little water, root damage,
rapid temperature changes, etc. (I don't know how
you get too much water in a self-watering Earthbox;
don't those things have overflow holes in the sides?)

The hints of purple on the bottoms of the leaves
are suspicious, though. That could be a mild mineral
deficiency. (Tablespoon each of kelp and comfrey
leaf in the water? At worst, nothing happens.)
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Old June 6, 2007   #3
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Purple on the stem is an excellent indication of potassium deficiency. Shot of Epsom salts mixed in with a low nitrogen and high potassium and potash fertilizer should get him happy again.
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Old June 13, 2007   #4
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This spring, I had something similar, and concluded my plants were hit by chemical herbicide drift. They grew out of it, some have produced, others have not. I don't know if this is a possibility in your area.

At first glance, I thought my plants had mosaic virus, which didn't make sense. Good luck.
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