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Chlorosis Tomato Disease 
I believe I have the Chlorosis virus infecting my tomato plants. This was due to my growing cabbage in with the toms -- this started the whitefly. I found ...

Translucent Tapioca-Sized Balls in Soil 
Removed my tomato plants as a season-end event. Discovered an anomaly in the soil that concerns me. I am using 20 gallon, top of the ground, containers....

Texas Drought - Cracking Tomatoes 
I've been watering the tomatoes every day because it's so dry and hot. I live in Texas and we're in the middle of a drought. I didn't get them planted ...

Too Much Rain - Tomato Plants Drooping 
We just had 3 days of heavy rain but today it's sunny. My tomato plants are wilting and droopy. Could it be too much water?

Tomato Gray Beetles are Stripping the Leaves 
We have had no rain for three weeks. Last year I had these gray bettles strip the leaves on my tomato plants. So this year I have them back again!!!

Possibly ...

Low Tomato Yield 
My tomato plant (Early Girl, i think) is not yielding fruit. The blossoms open up and then shrivel and fall off. The weather has been quite hot and dry ...

Something's taking large bites out of my tomatoes 
75% of my tomatoes seem to get partially eaten after they turn red. Whatever it is, it doesn't touch the green ones, only the ripe ones. It takes an ...

How to treat gray leaf spot 
I think my problem may be gray leaf spot. I am using Neem oil, but it doesn't seem to be helping. Is there a better fungicide for this problem?

White "hairs" on stems 
My tomato plant has white "hairs" on the main stem, and only one small tomato on the huge vine.
What are these hairs and do I need to get rid of the vine?...

Tomato plant leaves are drying out 
I live in Michigan. I had planted some tomato plants which were coming up real good and also had started flowering. I added some cow manure to them. From ...

7-ft Healthy Big Boy Plants -- No Fruits 
Large very tall big boy planted in April 2011 still green an very healthy but NO FRUIT. Should I pull them up? Baton rouge La. Very hot here it has been ...

Lots of blooms but no tomatoes 
Big, beautiful healthy tomato plants with blooms but not one tomato. Have sprayed with hormones. Still no luck. Any ideas?

Tomato plant leaves growing yellowing and dying 
Ok it started on the bottom with the end of the leaves turning yellow then growing and curling and dying on the edges. I am a organic Gardner and I have ...

Sudden Disease in Thriving Plants - White Spots 
I've grown tomatoes for about 20 years. For the past 4 years, just about this time of year as the plants are thriving and the fruit has set, they get ...

No blossoms no tomatoes 
I have had my tomato plant for about 2 months and it's big and healthy with no blossoms. What's wrong?

Tomato problem (I think possibly virus or bacteria) 
One month ago in some tomatoes (less than 1%), the upper and young stems and leaves started to have spots and turning into a purple/grayish color. You ...

Septoria Blight 
I have had a small garden for 12 years now. My problem is with my tomatoes. The last 4 years I have had this septoria blight problem. Let me tell you what ...

Growing Tomatoes in 100 Plus Temperatures 
Once plants stop producing tomatoes due to high temperatures, do I prune the plants back until fall or allow to keep growing taller with flowers but no ...

Tomato blossom-end rot question 
I have an odd occurrence. I have an Early Girl and a Better Boy planted in a very large container/pot. So, both have the same soil, moisture, sun, food,...

Cracking Tomatoes 
I have tomato plants in 5-gal. buckets. Producing some nice tomatoes and beautiful plants but the fruit seems to have splits and cracks. Am I over watering?...

Beefmaster Tomato Plant Problem...Help! 
I am a novice gardener trying my hand for the first time growing tomatoes and have a problem with my Beefmaster plant.

Please take a look at the two ...

Too Much Fertilizer? 
My tomatoes are wilting early in the morning before the sun hits them, they also have small green tomatoes on them and the bottom of them are turning black....

Diseased Tomatoes EVERY YEAR!! 
For 3 years, maybe 4?, I've had a problem with my tomato plants. For sure, they have a disease, but I don't know which one.

I described my problem ...

Black Beetles on Tomatoes 
I have these little black beetles all over my tomatoes. They are smaller than a lady bug and have 4 tiny yellow spots, can anyone advise me as to what ...

Gray Tomato Plants 
One of my tomato plants has turned completely gray. This doesn't seem to fit the description of any of the diseases mentioned on your website; should ...

Agressive Plant Growth - Few Tomatoes 
I prepped my greenhouse dirt that had little or no organic material with a bag of Miracle Grow potting soil. Initially, all the plants grew well ...

Hard Grey Marks on Bottom of Tomatoes  
Does any one know why I have hard grey marks on bottom of tomatoes that were not touching the ground. It seems to be on a couple of types but not the whole ...

Hard core center 
Early Girl.......blossom end is yellow, rest of the tomato is red and ripe, but with a very hard core center. What could be the cause?

Tomatoes rotting on bottom 
All the lower leaves on my tomato plants started turning yellow, and spotted. When the tomatoes started coming in the bottoms are rotted. What causes this?...

Tomato blooms dropping off -- see pictures 
I have a problem with my tomato plants, the little yellow blooms are falling off and the joint so it does not even have a chance of growing the fruit!! I ...

Better Boy Tomato Plant - Blooms, No Fruit 
My better boy tomato plants are growing fine; they produce blooms, but few of the blooms produce fruit. The fruit that is produced is small and often ...

Tiny Black Beetles on my Tomatoes 
I discovered tiny black beetles with white markings on top on my tomato plants. They are only about 3mm long. They are very attractive beetles but I feel ...

Tomatoes Have Black Spots in Center 
A local grower who used his high tunnel for the first time this past summer told me his tomatoes were un-sellable because, although they looked fine on ...

Tomatoes changing color when small 
I have a beefmaster tomato plant and one of the tomatoes is about 1/2 - 1 inch in diameter and has started changing color. I know the beefmaster variety ...

Leaves are curling and blossoms dropping off 
We planted a tomato in a Topsy Turvy bag and its been growing well and producing well but for the last week or so it's leaves are starting to curl and ...

Huge Big Boy Plant, but no Tomatoes 
My Big Boy tomato plant is bushy and huge, but I have no tomato blossoms. It's the first week of May and nothing. Did I use too much fertilizer or what?...

Seedlings fell over  
This morning one of my tomato seedlings was doing fine then about an hour later one of them fell over for some reason, I don't know if its because the ...

Fungus in Soil  Not rated yet
I think that my tomato plants had Stemphylium solani this year. Do I need to treat the soil with a fungicide over the winter so it doesn't come back?

Roma Tomato Leaves are Stunted, Curling Up  Not rated yet
I have a roma tomato plant that started out ok but now the leaves are stunted, curling up, the color on the new growth is lime green and green.

What ...

Tomato Plants have Tobacco Mosaic Virus  Not rated yet
I had a problem with tobacco mosaic this year on my tomato plants. My local extension agent said there isn't much I can do about it except good sanitation....

Greenhouse Tomatoes Rotting around the Stem  Not rated yet
Hi. I grow tomatoes in a green house every year. This year the tomatoes are rotting at the stem. It's a cream colour soft rot and after a day or two the ...

Tomato Disease - Pakistan - Help!  Not rated yet
We are severely having a tomato disease in which at first a spot is observed on tiller which grows slowly in order to get large shape & get disconnected ...

Eating tomatoes from plants with late blight  Not rated yet
Hi. Are tomatoes collected from plants with LATE BLIGHT but not showing signs on the tomato itself be left to ripen indoors and still be OK to eat or should ...

San Marzano Tomato Problem  Not rated yet
I've included a picture of my San Marzano tomato. The top of the fruit has this problem; the rest of the fruit is perfect, but I have no idea what the ...

Tomato dots  Not rated yet
I have little black dots on the skin of my tomatoes. They don't go through the skin. The tomatoes are fine except for the dots. They are in containers ...

Finger-width Gouge in Tomatoes?  Not rated yet
My tomatoes look like something has used it as a roadway. A gouge, about finger width, horizontally. Fruit is green when this happens. The fruit is ...

Tomato leaves shrinking, curling - pictures  Not rated yet
Something is going on with my tomatoes this year. The problem starts at the top of the plant and progresses down. The leaves shrink, curl slightly in, look ...

White mildew or mold forming at base of tomato plant  Not rated yet
A couple of my tomato plants have died (or are dying). The first sign I noticed of a problem is that near the bottom of the plant, at the soil line, a ...

Growbags -- No Tomatoes Only Foliage  Not rated yet
We planted 3 different types of tomato plants in a growbag specially set up for tomato planting. Only one is producing fruit the other two - Moneymaker ...

Dark area on entire botttom of tomatoes  Not rated yet
Bottom of green tomatoes are black and stays that way until fruit ripens. How can I stop this and save the rest of the tomatoes, before they are all ruined?...

Big Beef Tomato Stem Spliting  Not rated yet
We planted two big beef's this year and both stems started spliting. Any ideas?

Hard Tomatoes and Won't Ripen  Not rated yet
My tomatoes are very hard and will not ripen. What could be the problem?

Little Black Balls on Leaves - What is it?  Not rated yet
I noticed this morning that I have little black balls (poop?) on a few leaves of one of my tomato plants. Any idea what it is?

Lower half of plant turning brown...Oklahoma  Not rated yet
I have 3 tomato plants that are about up to my belly button. They have not yet produced any tomoto's but have flowers on them. A couple weeks ago they ...

Plant Leaves Curling  Not rated yet
We left for vacation - neighbors watered our garden - and when we came back, our garden was huge but the leaves seem to be curling. We have yet to get ...

Tiny spider webs on tomato plants  Not rated yet
Our tomato leaves show tracks like spider webs but no visible pest seen and leaves die. Any suggestions how to fix the problem?

Vermicompost Tea for Growing Tomatoes  Not rated yet
What is the importance of using vermicompost tea in growing tomatoes?

Need help identifying - is this a tomato plant?  Not rated yet
Is this a tomato plant? The stem is red. Thanks.
Jaris

Poor Growth, White in Tomato Stem  Not rated yet
The leaves of my tomato plant are turning brown and the stems are small also. Opening the tomato stem white things exist like shown in the pictures. Any ...

First Time Gardener - Plant Kinda Sick  Not rated yet
Our Beef Master has very few blooms. It also looks kinda sick. We live in Oklahoma City, Ok. When I planted it I put powder milk in the soil along with ...

Grey Mold  Not rated yet
The dirt around my tomato plant has a light grey mold forming on top of the dirt. Why and what can I do?

Blooms Not Producing Tomatoes  Not rated yet
My tomato plants have lots of blooms but are not producing tomatoes. Any idea what might be the cause?

Half-dollar Size Tomatoes Ripen then Shrivel Every Year  Not rated yet
I have planted in all types of soil with all types of ferlilizer and also in pots for 5 years and always the same problem... Plants grow very well 2 feet ...

Tomato Mosaic Disease Every Year  Not rated yet
I have this problem every year with my tomoatoes. They start out really beautiful and they get about 3 feet tall and then they start showing signs of ...

Shriveling tomato seedlings  Not rated yet
We have a new house and garden (in central MD, zone 7). We've tilled long rows (20' x 7') in a place where there has never been a vegetable garden (at ...