Tomato leaf discolouration, any need to be concerned?
Joe Brown2
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Just noticed this has appeared in the last day or two, I have three plants of this tomato variety (Ukranian purple), one isn't impacted although part of me thinks it might emerge on some leaves in a few days. One smaller one I can sort of forgive as the wind damaged the shelf of my plastic greenhouse and it fell out of its part under a load of soil.
But anyway here's a photo of the main plant I'm concerned about...(trying to post them in IMG tags didn't work so links to em..)
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa310/joey11223/IMG_7136_zpsak9ipx1f.jpg
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa310/joey11223/IMG_7137_zpscos39moj.jpg
and the smaller plant which fell out of its pot...
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa310/joey11223/IMG_7139_zpsnkqiia63.jpg
Now on the whole the plants do still look healthy and this is only impacting on a minority of leaves right now, not the very bottom branches, but on one or two above, but higher up branches uneffected thus far.
Is this any sort of disease, or something relating to nutrients/water? At the moment since we've had pretty mixed weather in the midlands and following the guidance of watering, letting the surface mostly dry out, and watering again, they've been watered twice a week, third time when it was a bit sunnier.
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no photos Joe, sorry.
yeah Hosta it was giving me errors when I tried to embed with IMG tags, so just edited in links haha.
when you get the " error" message, just close it down and wait about 15 seconds, then it should upload. It's been a problem for a while
cheers Edd!
The plant which fell out of the pot, that tbh I am assuming is Ukranian purple though not quite sure how (I planted some glacier tomato seeds later than the Ukranians, yet one of the seeds to come up in the tray of 6 glacier was the plant in the bottom picture you've put up for me which looks more like the Ukranian and nothing like a Glacier leaf wise), is quite small, after re-potting it and taking off the lower branches to give more root support after its disaster, it's only about 4" tall above the soil. The other one is over 1ft but not that close to 2ft.
Think I need to sow my toms earlier next time maybe right at the start of March compared to nearer the end.