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acebritpilot Posts: 1 |
narrow leaf problem Posted 230 days ago Most of our carefully seed-raised veggies this year (tomatoes, eggplant, capsicum) developed fine in the seed mixes but then after planting out the leaves started growing very thin- not opening out at all, but looking like string on the toms and distorted on the other plants. The plants all growing very slowly. The basil plants are simply small and a bit yellowish but without leaf distortion. We are growing them all in a mix of soil / mushroom compost 3:1 from the local garden centre. Interesting, one or two tomato plants are perfect, large leafed plants, growing in the same mix but pots not a veggie bed. We first thought virus, but the leaves are not discoloured, just very thin. After applying tomato fertiliser the plants are now mostly starting to improve (again, suggesting its not eg a mosaic virus), but perhaps due to a deficiency of some sort... Any opinions out there? Thanks! |
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hutcho Posts: 514 |
RE: narrow leaf problem Posted 230 days ago Hi acebritpilot. First suggestion is a soil-test kit. Cheap and easy to use. pH6.5 is about what you want. A quick-fix might be Iron Chelate as per label with a light side-dressing of blood-and-bone and dynamic lifter, watered-in well with seasol. But it's a bit of a mystery why the pots are going better unless maybe they're a bit more sheltered from the midday sun. If the soil component of the mix is topsoil, then the mix won't really have all that much nutritional value per se, so you might need a good Nitrogen hit as well. What sort of toms, just by-the-by ? And where the heck is Upwey? Please don't tell me it's " weyup there." |
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