The weather had been terrible since we came back from our trip to China. It was cold and it had been raining continuously for nearly a week and we did not see the sun for almost 2 weeks. It was reported in the news that "is winter coming to Malaysia?" This freak weather condition was no good for my very special potato leaf tomato, I'm sad to see it in the condition as nit is now. All the fruits cracked due to the continuous rainfall and the leaves were attacked by mildew. All the leaves with spots on them were removed and I sprayed the plant with a mixture of baking soda and soap solution but it is still pathetic looking. Now the weather has return to normal and I will be starting some new tomato plants.
The leaf roll is physiological. I see it all the time in adverse weather conditions. too hot too cold too wet too dry... be patient. I am trying peroxide this year as a spray, too. 1.5% dilution. pick off the ugly fruit and don't worry over it. that was due to the cold and wet. the next ones shouldn't look that way. good luck.
KK...I'm amazed at the fruit that is one there....rot and all. Quite impressive plant. what type is it...i forgot? The next ones are going to be awesome.
Thanks for the encouragement Islandlife Carolyn, thank you for the explanation, I'll do just that No Hummerbum, the fruits just split and dried up at the split but it is not rotting. It is a potato leaf tomato and is keeping my fingers crossed for the next one.
Peroxide is a natural fungicide/bactericide/algaecide. I spray it to kill the pathogens on newly seeded flats as I start seeds. in the greenhouse on the benches. floors (concrete/pavers) and walls, on trays and pots if I am reusing items... etc. If a plant is already diseased I certainly am not going to cause an infection of something but it will kill off spores of fungus that land on the leaves. I still dilute the normal 3% by 1/2 to make it 1½%. EDITED to say... don't do it. If the plants are too small it will kill them. maybe my peroxide was still too strong but some of my little plants died.
KK,, Your tomato looks like all mine did last year. Then when the sun came out and after all the rain,,they literally cooked on the vine. If I picked them to let them ripen a day or two,, they rotted before they ripened. Welcome to Texas, KK !
S, we use some "oxy" products in the garden/greenhouse and hightunnels. they are becoming available via the organic gardening sprays. oxphos is another one we use. it is supposed act systemically for fungal infections. I would love to be able to not use any synthetic chemicals but I also am not interested in toxic (to me as I spray) natural ones either.
It is miserable, it stopped growing and fruiting for reasons unknown to me. The plant leaves start to curl, the tip of the plant was crumbly with no sign of growth it looked ugly! I tried to save it but ... so I decided to put it out of it misery All the fruits were inedible. My conclusion is that the weather was not favourable. We had record cool (23°C) weather then with lots of rain and the weather just change to extremely hot (37°C) and dry for a few days. Temperature is in the shade. Then it was rain again. Anyway I had started a new batch and keeping fingers crossed
thats a bummer KK! hopefully the next batch will do better. its not like tomatoes aren't tropical. good luck. maybe that one just was more suitable to my weather than yours.
Carolyn, the new batch is doing well and out of the 11 seeds I got 6 germinated but one was taken! They are doing well and they are "Girls, Girls, Weird Thing"
