What is wrong with my tomatoes?

[laurazone5]

At first, I thought it was the remnants of the tropical storm that kicked up some BIG wind.
Now, randomly, my plants (all different varieties) are drooping?

Oh please help. I can't lose them.

[tabitha]

they are sick. I have no idea what kind of virus it is. Tomato corona. Mine are starting to show some limping. tomorrow I am going to spray them with something called revitalize, anti fungus etc. No idea if it will work. My beans did not sprout. I planted them three times.

[Deleted]

Were it my tomatoes, I might spray them with some raw milk.

Wonder what the stems look like at the bottom... Have you seen any boring insects?

[themotherhen]

Jun 17, 2020 1:57:41 GMT @pony said:

Were it my tomatoes, I might spray them with some raw milk.

Wonder what the stems look like at the bottom... Have you seen any boring insects?

Dh looked at the pictures and recommends crushing up some Tums. We had the same issue one year with heavy rain, it made the plants need more calcium. Tums now and crushed eggshells in a week or so. We've had *lots* of rain. 

[fordy]

................They've got........The Old Man's Curse ! , lol , fordy

[laurazone5]

No rain here for 13 days.
Hand watering, at the base, in the am. About 16 oz of water a day.
Base of stems bug free, and sturdy.

[Txsteader]

It's been awfully hot here lately. I'm having to water more b/c even though I thought I was watering plenty enough, I happened to stick my finger down in the soil to find it bone dry while the surface was damp.

Other than that, I have nothing to offer but my sympathy.

[Tricky Grama]

Some kind of 'early blight'?
Mites? You can spray w/water & H2O2. That cured 'rust' on my moon flowers.

[Deleted]

Jun 17, 2020 11:06:56 GMT laurazone5 said:

No rain here for 13 days.
Hand watering, at the base, in the am. About 16 oz of water a day.
Base of stems bug free, and sturdy.

I know the books say that tomato plants need about a cup of water a week.

Don't know how hot it is there, but perhaps you could try cutting back a bit on the watering.

[DEKE]

Is there any chance you used composted manure from an outside source?

The chemical in Grazon treated grass survives in the gut of the horses and cattle as well as the heat of a good compost pile. It lasts supposedly 3 years in the soil and in micro doses, it makes broadleafs wilt slowly.

Supposedly, if you have any hint of Grazon in that soil, the only thing you can do is wait years or remove all the soil and replace it with fresh dirt. But I'm way outside my range here and just repeating what I've been told. I don't know how you would test to verify it one way or the other.

I planted fruit trees in similar spots three years in a row and could not get them to grow longer than 6 months before they eventually died. A master gardener said it was probably Grazon in the soil. Since we buy hay from big time producers, it probably has that Grazon chemical and the manure tends to get pretty much everywhere on the farm either from them grazing or us picking it up composting when they are confined on a winter sacrifice lot.

[daw]

DEKE, I was trying to think where I saw that before. Driving down the road
you can see plants look like that when sprayed. It is commonly used in road
side ditches near dairy farms where there is run off.

[laurazone5]

I buy organic compost from the same place every year......I will FREAK OUT if they gave me scrub compost.

I put it in all 5 beds, around my trees and grapevines, in the front yard.......only random tomato plants are wilting.
Peppers, beans, taters, melons, cukes, sunflowers, pumpkins, grapes, strawberries are all fine.

No critters on the tomato stalks, and it's not just one variety of tomato (otherwise I would suspect infected seeds)

How do I test the soil to see if it have been contaminated?

My neighbors do not spray.

I just soaked the ground. I am hoping it's just dry........This will be the cherry on my spit sundae if I have trashed my gardens with bad soil. They will be able to hear me scream on the ISS.

[Ozarks Tom]

A couple years ago all our roses were stricken with a viral disease, it came on new plants and spread. We're told it eventually leaves the disease in the soil where it lasts for up to three years. The reason I'm saying this is because when the rose bushes started wilting and dying, our tomato plants about 40 feet away started to wilt also. We pulled all the rose bushes and burned them, and the tomatoes came right back, producing like always. Do you, or any neighbors have rose bushes that are dying?

[DEKE]

Jun 17, 2020 15:48:58 GMT laurazone5 said:

I buy organic compost from the same place every year......

That SHOULD be OK and free of Grazon.

There is a place near me that picks up manure by the 30 yard dumpster from horse farms.  They take it to a transfer site and then truck it to Black Cow manure (BCM), or so they say.  Black Cow Manure is supposed to be organic, so there is no way it could pass what I understand to be organic controls where you have to ensure organic-ness at every point of the process.  So perhaps some part of what they tell me isn't accurate, IDK.  But it has always made me suspect of BCM

I go to that transfer station to get here loads of manure/waste bedding in my 15 yard dump trailer.  I know I can't put it on my garden, but I use it to fill in rough spots in the pastures to add organic material and some fertilizer value.  It gives the grasses something besides sand to take root in and makes the pasture stronger faster. 

[laurazone5]

I soaked them yesterday morning.
Of the 6-7 drooping, only one is drooping this morning......
We are supposed to get rain this weekend.....

I am praying they were just dry.