Frenching......?
PH and poor drainage are the cause from what I have read though Im open to other suggestions.
I was seeing wavy leaves and mottled green before the rains which made it worse. Pics are from this evening after considerable recovery from sunny weather.
Little Yellow & Little Dutch
Japan 8
Prilep, Ege & Canik
Im more concerned about the mottled appearance on most leaves even before the week of rain though they have recovered somewhat.
Ege
Little Yellow
I staked plants that fell the second time but this Little Dutch turned bright yellow with mottling though it has recovered a few shades toward green.
More Little Dutch
LD
LD
I believe that improvement can be made in this row by letting it dry out then feeding with the acidifying fertilizer. I will also check the PH on all rows and will amend the soil in the remaining unplanted rows with peat moss.
Meanwhile my daughter's tomato's have Granville Wilt (ralstonia solanacearum) and its making me wonder about these Ahus and Tofta droopy leaves.
The leaves seem healthy but with a heavy droop.
They could be ripening but not showing yellow because of excess Nitrogen?
Ill continue to observe.
I didn't take pics of the Granville Wilt damaged tomato but it passes the "slime in water" test. Funny thing is a few sunflowers are also infected with bacterial wilt of another type. Similar to Granville but no appearance of white slime in water. Wilted leaves re-hydrate when cut and placed in water, thought that was kinda neat. So yesterday we sterilized everything reusable and read up on how to control spread of the disease and better cultural practice moving forward. Seems soil can be treated with chlorine dioxide (not good for tobacco) and there is emerging research on the use of copper oxide nanoparticles (somewhat expensive).
Other than that the grow is going well overall and its nice to have paced things out so that I can make changes to my program this year for a better grow on the seedlings that will be planted soon.
LY & LD
Ahus & Tofta
