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Tomatoes fading fast.

Gary Mitchell

Gary Mitchell

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I stacked up a few tractor fronts and set a couple of lick tubs on them for tomatoes. I mixed composted cotton gin trash, decent potting soil, and some top soil in which I set out 2 plants in each tub. I Miracle Growed them initially and added a tad of granular fertilizer. They started out dandy and then turned to what the PIC shows. A greenhouse guy told me it was fungus so I Spectracided them a week ago. My orchard guy said they looked over watered, my gardener friend told me they looked dry. (sigh) Does anyone have an idea before I loose them? Thanks, gm
 
I can't get the darn jpgs to post for whatever reason. The leaves are curling and a few have black tips. ??? gm
 
I have post in tractor tales about some of my tomato's wilting.

You might try a mix of Epsom salts and a gallon of water. About 2-3 table spoons to a gal. and then use that to water them
 
If they look like the picture I posted it is Fungus caused wilt. I would wonder about the cotton gin trash. Cotton has a lot of fugal diseases.

If your using lick tubs you should have cattle around. Rather than using the compost just get some of the dirt/manure/rotten hay from around were you feed round bales. I do this and a few tomatoes plants grow more than I can eat by myself. Few possible "new" diseases brought in from outside sources.
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Drill holes in tubs 2-3 inches from bottom on sides. That way there moisture to draw from but not bone dry or soaking wet
 
I drilled 8, 3/4 inch holes in the bottom and then dumped 4 inches of 2 inch limestone rock in the bottom. gm
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Tomatoes can be a real pain in the side. I lost 600 plants this spring to what I believe is 2,4-d damage. When you try to plant a lot of them the problems magnify. I nearly always spray some fungicide at least a couple times as a prevention. But the weather is never perfect, and it seems that something always comes along to damage the plant or the fruit at some point in the growing season. I have tomatoes in high tunnels, in the field, and in pots in greenhouse. I should know what I am doing by now, but its hard. Then there is the old guy next town over that grows 100 plants, and he has tomatoes to sell me after mine are all dead! And I plant 1500--2000 plants, all staked and tied. Talk about frustrating. But we do sell a bunch of tomatoes.
 
There are several things that can cause leaves to curl.

I am going to throw out over watering since the are in containers with holes in the bottom.
If it has been windy and dry it could be stress from under watering.
There are also several blights and wilt diseases that will cause the leaves to curl but this usually comes with brown and yellow dying of the leaves.

But the one thing that jumps out since you added off site compost is herbicide residue poisonings.
 
Tomato is super sensitive to any crop spraying done on adjoining farms or even your own farm. Curling leaves with no immediate yellowing or brown leaves could indicate possible spray drift damage especially if you have had any windy weather conditions. Cotton compost could be suspect also.
 
It's disappointing when that happens. hope you figure out what happened. I have the opposite problem with my tomatoes. I wish they would stop growing. I have them in a wood frame, and are over 6 ft tall, and growing. I have adobe ground. I added mushroom compost, and a bag of chicken poop. Stan
 
Having planted our 45 plants using 10-10-10- and 1 tablespoon of miracle grow to a gallon of lake water(we live)a short distance from the lake,so it's easy for us to get .We get an over abundance of tomatoes that we share cause we can't eat all that the plants produce.Other produce we grow is using commercial, granular fertilizer.Our garden feeds 3 family members household plus a lot of others.Sure is a shame to loose plants that is required to sell on market. Hope you get the problem resolved before all your efforts go down the drain. Regards Lou & Victor.
 


No matter what the cause of your tomato plant failing is you'll most likely have to start over with a new plant and a different source for soil.
 
Cotton is sprayed with all sorts of stuff and tomatoes are very sensitive to herbicides not a good combination.NC State did a study a few years ago about herbicides used on hay passing thru horses and the chemical still being strong enough in the manure to kill or damage vegetable plants when the manure was used in a garden.
 
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