Yellowing tomato plants (pics)

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Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« on: June 21, 2010, 20:32 »
Hello,

I am growing several varieties of tomatoes in my greenhouse.  I thought all was going well and I was having fab beginners luck but two of my plants don't seem to be doing to well - varieties Legend and Sweet Millions.  They are yellowing and some leaves are going "crispy" although the plants seem strong enough and aren't wilting really.  I'm also growing gold nugget and super marmande and they are doing wonderfully.

What's wrooooong?

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Re: Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2010, 21:38 »
Any thoughts would be really appreciated, this is my first year growing and I'm worried whatever it is is contagious!

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Re: Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2010, 21:45 »
Sunscorch?


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Re: Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2010, 21:47 »
I'm not sure to be honest, sorry.  I have had tomatoes previously where the odd leaf here and there has done that and it didn't seem to make much difference to the tomatoes that I got but this might be different to what I have seen.

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Re: Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2010, 21:55 »
Thanks both for getting back to me!  If it is sunscorch, will they recover?

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Re: Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2010, 22:12 »
They'll be fine you could just remove the scorched bits with a clean, sharp knife for the look of the plants.  You need some sort of shading, I think the cheapest is the Coolglass that you paint on. You also need good ventilation so that the air circulates but isn't drafty.

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Re: Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2010, 01:18 »
to stop sun scorch we use horticultural fleece attached the same way as bubble wrap ,

bubble wrap tends to go brittle and break down , fleece lasts a lot longer and in hull its only 35p per metre,

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Re: Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2010, 10:12 »
Give them some feed too (or Epsom Salts if you have some).  Looks like severe magnesium deficiency to me. 
« Last Edit: June 22, 2010, 10:17 by Aunt Sally »

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Re: Yellowing tomato plants (pics)
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2010, 18:35 »
Thanks!  I'll try the fleece, and the epsom salts.  They've been getting normal tomato food but that's obviously not enough!

Much appreciated.



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