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What's happened to this tomato plant please?
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 8:35 pm
by Primrose
Can anybody suggest why the tomato on the left (if I have been successful in uploading the ohoto ) is so pale?
And how do I treat it to restore it back to normal health and colour ?
Re: What's happened to this tomato plant please?
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 10:08 pm
by Pa Snip
Hello Primrose.
Other than the colour it looks quite strong. Do you know what variety it is meant to be.
Is it from seed you saved yourself.
No idea what the problem is but couple of questions I ask myself are:-
Could it be chlorophyll deficiency I wonder.
Would a dose of magnesium be of assistance
Re: What's happened to this tomato plant please?
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 10:17 pm
by John
Hello Primrose
I would agree with P snip. Try giving is a dose of Epsom Salts (often sold as Magnesium or similar in garden centres) - water it with a solution of 1 tablespoon per gallon.
More interestingly as it looks otherwise so healthy could this be a rogue plant with naturally yellow leaves? Grow it on and see what fruit it produces as you could have stumbled on something good - maybe a winner!
Keep us posted with its progress please.
John
Re: What's happened to this tomato plant please?
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 6:48 am
by Primrose
The variety is Ildi - a cordon yellow cherry plum variety which bears masses of fruit on each truss.
I sowed it from last year's saved seed. The strange thing is that another plant from the same source has come up completely normal (not the plant in the photo it's being compared with though) and both plants have been raised in exactly the same way.