What's wrong with these tomatoes? :-(

nachoqtpie

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They are the Homesteader heirloom tomatoes. I looked up the conditions that you mentioned Chris, and none of them sound right. The yellowing started in the middle... and there is new healthy growth at the bottom of the plant. So I don't think it's anything to do with any virus or bugs. (I COULD be wrong tho... LOL)
As far as the Miracle Grow... it is 24-8-16


The plants looked decently healthy when we brought them home from Lowes. I think WE might have inadvertently caused them some distress by not watering them enough after we planted them. I'm pretty careful when it comes to what paper we use for shredding and only use white paper, sometimes I will use yellow depending on the print. I don't shred paper that has very heavy or colored ink on it. That being said, sometimes the kiddos do shredding as well, so I can't be certain that THEY haven't put some of that in there. I will have to do a better job of making sure that none of that makes it in there.

I'm not so sure it's the paper mulch tho, because it started before we put the mulch on, and the other plants are all doing so very very well and are using the same paper mulch. Most of the ones that we have put it on have came back and are doing so well now.

We had originally started our own seeds, but, they all died. :( We have one plant left from our original seeds. We weren't very organized with our garden this year, being our first year! Next year we intend to start our tomatoes much earlier than we did this year. :D
 

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Well if it's not blight, that's good for me. I think I'll take some pictures of them to the cooperative extension and see what they say. An old timer I worked with said it was blight for sure. I was only sharing what I was told, but I'm going to find out for sure from the extension.
 

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Aww... welll ti be fair.. it sorta looks like it... but... when the leaves die it's all wrong lookin... from the pictures I've seen blight makes it a papery grey color and brittle... (again... I could be wrong... :p)
 

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How did this all turn out? I hope they are doing fine by now. My best plant has started looking the same as the first pics you posted. I'm growing it in my greenhouse in a 5 gal. bucket with well composted chicken and horse manure with old hay, straw and wood shavings.
Plant has big wonderful tomatoes and would hate to pull it at this point!!!

THANX RICH
 

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OH!
Wel... I cut the leaves off that were looking like that and it started growing again!! Mine doesn't have any tomatoes on it yet... just flowers that haven't done anything.

It seems that all is right in the tomato world for now.. hehe
 

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Thanx for the update.
Mine has lots of fruit with some that are about ripe.
So far I've taken about the same course as you. I pulled the bad branches and leaves and mixed up some fish emulsion and gave it a drink of that. I did move it outside. I hope that in time it will thrive.

THANX RICH
 

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Oh hooray! You were so bummed, I'm glad to see a total turn around for them. You'll have tomatoes soon enough, we have a long season for them... so you'll have an abundance of a harvest to enjoy without having to worry about frost. :D
 

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I was having a different problem with a potted tomato. It was growing great, now that we finally have more sunny than rainy days, then suddenly during a day of 90F temperature the top 4 inches on every stem shoot got floppy and bent over, and since I was watering it enough I thought it was just too hot for it so I moved it to an area shaded from afternoon sun, but it was odd because plants I had in the ground in full sun all day long weren't drooping.

Turned out that what happened was since the plant was doing so well, I had decided to top off the soil in the pot a couple days earlier as it had settled to a lower level than I wanted. By adding the soil I caused the plant to divert its energy into growing more roots instead of thickening the new stem growth. Two days later it had roots coming up through the top of the new soil already!
 

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