Re: Trouble with tomatoes

Tomato spotted wilt?

>     Could someone tell me what is happening to my  Hybrid tomatoes?  The
>end quarter of the tomato plant looks green and has  blossoms.  The middle
>section is yellowish, some lime green in color with a  mottled look and
>the leaves look somewhat dry.  I can see the veins of the  leaves as they
>are darker in color. I  have labeled the plants and one  variety has more
>of this problem than the other type.  The pear tomatoes  which are younger
>but also blossoming  and in the same row next to the  troubled tomatoes
>are not affected .  I water using the dripper  system.  I think the plants
>do not have the amount of foliage they need to  keep the sun off the
>tomatoes and the foliage is not a dark green more of a gray  green. These
>tomatoes have been producing about 2 weeks. They are also not as  bushy as
>I think tomatoes should be. I have used an all purpose granular
>fertilizer  where the dripper emits water and several weeks ago and I have
>sprayed the foliage with fertilizer, but not recently.   Thank you.  
>Lorraine Schmiege Athens, Greece


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