Help! Spots and yellow leaves

[fizzle7033]

Help! My tomato plants and pepper plants have yellow leaves with spots on them. I have a link to pics below since I'm on aol lockdown and can't post yet. I sprayed them with liquid fence yesterday and I just noticed this today, could I have mixed the concentrate to strong? Or is it something more sinister like a blight or fungus? I'm skeered! I have 150 plants and can't afford too lose them all!!

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[fizzle7033]

Wow! I just realized there is an abundance of dog hair in a crack in my desk that is really visible in the 2nd pic, please ignore my messy desk lol Apparently I need to vacuum it! Didn't realize it until the flash made it pop!

[NCLee]

If you didn't have the problem before you sprayed and then saw it the day after, my guess is that the spray is the problem. Especially since it appeared on two different plants at the same time. And, from the pictures it does look like that type of damage.

Just keep an eye on your plants and keep them well watered. Depending on how many leaves were affected and how badly the growing tips are damaged, this may only be a cosmetic problem. Your yield may only be slightly affected, if any. Just try to keep other stresses to the plants to a minumum. For example I wouldn't add any fertilizer at this time. If you feel the need to add fertilizer (I don't know if you're growing organic or are on a feeding schedule) do so only after waiting to see if the plants continue to grow and put out new leaves.

I'm not familiar with the product you used. Re-read the directions to see if they have any suggestions if application goes astray. Also, check to see if they have a web site with more info.

Hope this helps. Perhaps someone else here has more insight into the problem. In any event, good luck with your plants. I do hope it's cosmetic only.

Lee

[Anon001]

Fizzle,

I never spray anything near my garden once it is in. Tomato plants are overly sensitive to ANY chemical. A lot of chemicals can "drift" very easily, even when you don't see it happen.

I use to have an older man working for us at the co-op. He also sold a lot of vegetables on the side and had about 1/2 acre of tomato plants. One day after helping out with the chemicals during spraying season he had some on his clothes without having spilled any chemical or done anything else. It was just drift that hit his jeans. That evening he went through the tomatoes checking for hornworms and had just enough contact with his jeans that he lost almost all his tomato plants just be them rubbing his jeans. It seems that tomatoes are more sensitive than other vegetables.

Good luck with it.
Paull

[fizzle7033]

Thanks! I hope that is all it is. Ironically enough liquid fence is supposed to be organic and safe for any plant or animal! It is *supposed* to just smell really bad and run off the deer! And I was just trying to protect the plants from the animals and then ended up killing their leaves! :(