Hello
As you can see in picture Nr.1 my tomato plant is curling its leaves. The leaves seem to be of a darker green color. I dont know why but this only happened with 2/3 of the plant. The other third seems to be normal.
There is no hay around the stem.
Pic Nr.2 is my other plant that is right next to the first one and is all healthy.
Any idea whats up with my tomato plant?
by Lemur-Puffin
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How hot is it where you are? My tomatoes’ leaves look just like those before I got a shadecloth
They look awful.
Getting enough sunlight? Are you watering with chlorinated water? Have you fertilized,
I think there’s some sort of imbalance going on with pH and/or nutrients, and nutrients are getting locked out.
My Celebrity Plus started creating those small, twisted leaves on new growth after I made a batch of Masterblend where during the mixing process, I got all the calcium to turn into useless gypsum (it’s one of those “don’t ever do” things for hydroponic growing). Over time, these twisted stunted leaves turned rougher and harder, almost to the point of soft plastic. Now that it’s been a few weeks after I gave it properly mixed Masterblend, the new suckers are growing normal leaves, enough of them that I’ve been able to chop off all the old stems and foliage. In soil growing, it’s not as quick to fix as you can’t just swap out unbalanced soil. I mean, you could, but you’d have to baby the plant through transplant stress.
EDIT: Something that’s also common and looks sort of like what you have there is damage from herbicide drift.
100% weed killer tomatoes are very sensitive to it. Spray drift, compost , mulch, it’s almost always one of them.
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Looks like herbicide damage, likely from your mulch. Pull them up, dump the straw, and start over. Sorry, pal. 🙁
They might be getting too much radiant heat from your fence. Water more frequently especially in the morning and if you can try to put something like a wooden board against the fence to alleviate some of the radiant heat.