Tomatos plant ill?

Salaam · July 7, 2017

Hello all,

I've got two plants in an Earthtainer that, to my untrained eye, are slowly succumbing to something. The rest of the garden is okay. Please take a look at the photos and let me know.

For some background... This has been an unusually rainy and cool spring and summer.

dmforcier · July 7, 2017

I get the crispy leaf tips too. But the plants seem fine so I haven't done anything about it, except to pick them off when they start to show chlorosis as in your first pic.

The plant in the last pic looks wilty.

RayR · July 7, 2017

Tip burn on the leaves could be caused by a number of things. environmental stress like high winds and cool temperatures. How unseasonably cool is it in Ottawa?
Over fertilization could be another cause.
The plant look OK otherwise.

Salaam · July 10, 2017

Thanks. I think we are not too far from record rains for May and June and perhaps a few degrees cooler than normal. It's still raining a lot, but warmer, but still cooler than normal.

Not overfertilized, I think, because I only put down a strip. I didn't mix fertilizer with the soil medium.

A lot of dropped flowers, by the way.

swamper · July 11, 2017

Gray mold seems to like cool moist weather. Hope you get some breezy dry sunshine.

July 7, 2017	#2
dmforcier Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,825	I get the crispy leaf tips too. But the plants seem fine so I haven't done anything about it, except to pick them off when they start to show chlorosis as in your first pic. The plant in the last pic looks wilty. __________________ Stupidity got us into this mess. Why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers

July 7, 2017	#3
RayR Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Cheektowaga, NY Posts: 2,466	Tip burn on the leaves could be caused by a number of things. environmental stress like high winds and cool temperatures. How unseasonably cool is it in Ottawa? Over fertilization could be another cause. The plant look OK otherwise.

July 10, 2017	#4
Salaam Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Ottawa, ON Posts: 128	Thanks. I think we are not too far from record rains for May and June and perhaps a few degrees cooler than normal. It's still raining a lot, but warmer, but still cooler than normal. Not overfertilized, I think, because I only put down a strip. I didn't mix fertilizer with the soil medium. A lot of dropped flowers, by the way.

July 11, 2017	#5
swamper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: CT Posts: 219	Gray mold seems to like cool moist weather. Hope you get some breezy dry sunshine.