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Brown tomato leaves

Cliecost
Cliecost Posts: 633 Forumite
in Gardening
Hi,

Quick one.

Below is a pic of my tomato leaves.

The leaves have brown spots, is this normal?

It's a pick-a-tom variety.

Thanks.

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Comments

  • sallysocks
    sallysocks Posts: 16 Forumite
    The lower leaves of tomatoes do degrade a bit, especially with plants as well on as yours are. It doesn't look like a disease to me, some people would (carefully) remove the leaves to allow maximum light for ripening the fruit, personally I would leave these on a little longer because they will still be doing their job. Good toms, though, well done!
  • Leif
    Leif Posts: 3,727 Forumite
    It might be sun burn r wind damage. Water drops after watering can focus light and cause burn too. Your tomatoes are nice and early.
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  • Cliecost
    Cliecost Posts: 633 Forumite
    I have a tube in the centre of the pot to focus the water down in the roots. They live outside.

    I have never grown tomatoes before, I'm just taking it as it comes and posting on here if I don't know or can't find out.

    Is it normal for no new buds to form? Does it grow what it has now and then just stop?

    Thanks :)
  • suisidevw
    suisidevw Posts: 2,256 Forumite
    GOSH! Fruit already?! I'm at least 6 weeks behind you, probably more!
  • Cliecost
    Cliecost Posts: 633 Forumite
    suisidevw wrote: »
    GOSH! Fruit already?! I'm at least 6 weeks behind you, probably more!

    I didn't realise the plant was early...

    It's in a real 'sun-trap' part of the garden so maybe that helps.
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