located near college station, tx
I've seen normal curl but this is odd. I do notice a small black bug with clear wings clinging to the stem of all my plants. I got 32 tomato plants with all the same.
any help appreciated. I've bought neem oil and some yellow sticky pads to try to kill these bastards.
what else should I do?
my soil is very heavy in clay
by groger13
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Any herbicides applied near by that might have drifted over? Not saying that’s what it is but I’ve seen similar looking symptoms from herbicide damage
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when my tomatoes looked like this last year, it was persistent herbicide contamination in my mulch/compost. https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/herbicide-carryover
Possibly a curly tip virus. Do you notice leafhoppers by chance? They spread it most commonly.
Sometimes I will also just get a number of plants that exhibit these symptoms from seedling stage, and I have even taken them so far as to let them grow most the season with their variety to see if the issue spreads over time. In my experiments it never has, leading me to hypothesize that sometimes you just get a genetic abnormality that presents itself more dominantly in certain varieties. I recommend culling these plants though. They do not grow out of it and will waste your space.
I did get the compost from a mushroom factory which is very common around here and lots of people use it.
It’s either some pesticide or chemical that was in the soil , or it might be tomato mosaic virus.
Looks like nute burn.