Tomato Mosaic Disease

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Catherine
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I thought my tomatoes leaves were looking a bit curly yesterday. Today they are looking worse so I have been looking on the internet and the photo I have looked at looks just like mine. One from the polytunnel and two from outside look poorly. I cant decide what to do. On the internet it says it is not the end of the world :roll: oh yes it is. They wont die just the crop will be smaller. :shock: SOmeone from our allotment looked at them and just said it was magnesium deficiency. I dont know how to put a photo on here so I cant take a picture. Can anyone advise what I should do. This year I have left the doors open in the tunnel except one day last week when I propped the door part open.
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Sometimes they do just curl a lot and it's no problem, you can often "straighten them up" by unfurling the leaves :D

On the other hand, do they look like this lot?

http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestpics ... /qic55.pdf

If so, I think you're in trouble.
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No Chantal they dont look like that. Is that good news? :)
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Catherine, it may be a case of the blind leading the blind, but if you are able to get your photo onto Flickr, which is a photo-sharing website, i can send you an idiot's guide to transferring the picture from flickr onto your posting.

You'll need to pm me if you want me to do this.

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Hmm, sorry, although I've been growing tomatoes for quite some time now, I can't think of what might be affecting them. :?
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