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Old June 14, 2016   #1
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Default Heirloom leaves starting to turn and curl

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I planted my heirloom garden 3 weeks ago into a drip irrigated 16'x6'x12" raised bed of 50/50 compost/loam, amended with azomite and happy frog vegetable, and my leaves are starting to curl up and turn over on a few different plants.
I fertilize weekly with a mix of Fox Farm's 6-4-4 grow big and Neptune's 2-3-1 fish/seaweed mix. I'm wondering if anyone has an idea of the potential causes..

Mrs. Maxwell's Italian with the curled/turned leaves
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Old June 15, 2016   #2
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And here is a picture of the San Marzano Redorta. The leaves on the top are starting to show purple veins as well.
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Old June 15, 2016   #3
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Is wind damage a possibility?

Here's an interesting link:http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/v...st-or-Curl.pdf

It's titled, "What Makes Tomato Leaves Twist and Curl."

Hope this helps..
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Old June 15, 2016   #4
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I'm in NJ and some of the foliage and even some main stems on my plants are curled. Im thinking wind damage also. It's been blowing hard for a few days now.
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Thank you for the suggestions. We have had 20mph sustained for the past few days, but the new top growth is looking thin and unhealthy.... I'm hoping the plants grows out of it. Time will tell
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It's odd to me that link really doesn't touch on one aspect of curling, which is new growth growing 'pig tail' style at worse, or just curled downward, sometimes oddly bent at the end, which from what I've identified is mostly due to excess nitrogen but possibly also related to copper or zinc.
It's odd that this year a lot more people seem to have it, me included (a lot worse than in your case). I assumed here it's because we barely had any sun at all since last year, which will push the plants to be over vegetative.
One sure sign that is the case, is the orientation of flower clusters (when they will appear). If they sit upright, almost parallel to the stem, it's 100% excess N.
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That's a good point...

All the plants in question have been planted 100% new 50/50 food scrap compost/loam mix..

On top of that I've been soil fertilizing weekly with what equates to a 8-7-5 instant/fish fertilizer.

Could that schedule be causing the purple seen on this new growth?
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I am no tomato expert but that sounds like an awful lot of fertilizing to me. If I fertilize at all, it's once a month.

I am also seeing some curly leaves on some of my plants. I have 2 gardens and I am seeing the curly leaves on the tomato plants in the garden that get hits by more wind and it is drier too.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/v...st-or-Curl.pdf

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