Your Tomato Leaves are Curling What Does it Mean and What Causes It?
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- In this episode we explain everything that causes tomato leaf curl and how to fix it. What you should worry about and what you don’t need to worry about. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
My kind of expert. I love the 'scientific' aspect. You have just solved my tomato plant problem e.g. strong winds at a time of the year which is unexpected in late spring. Thought my tomatoes had a fungus that would affect them all. Not so. I understand exactly and am eliminating the problem. All plants on the way to flowering so it was a puzzle. I am a much better tomato gardening than before. Straight forward speaking, no waffle, no wasted time tell us how brilliant you are. Success speaks volumes. Thanks.
I studied horticulture for 2 years and bought books on nutrient deficiencies and toxicities and this is the first time I've come across this information so thank you for loads of help.
I googled this problem before finding this video, the article I found was perfect just like this video, it talked about it all... then I noticed I was just reading from his website, while watching his video on the same topic! lol
Truly informative, lovely delivery; greatly appreciated!
More amd more I realize nature provides the best education.
@@irmasanchez5274 yes, but the closure you get to nature the more you learn that she is a stunningly beautiful but brutal lady.
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Great video Luke!! We can always count on you for such great information!! I get a lot of leaf curl from the extreme heat here in Florida. Our growing season has been over for a little over a month now and we won't be able to plant again till after the rainy season in September. I can't wait to grow tomatoes again! Thanks for sharing!!
It’s really appreciated for your info. It’s really helpful and informative. I have searched for so long to differentiate the symptoms of leave curl.
Have watched this video last year, although I could not remember all the reasons, after viewing again I realized I had nothing to be concerned about. I am a very inexperienced gardener, but I want to learn and your videos do help me to get better. Thank you for the time you spend giving a us a chance to learn some of your experience.
Wow! That’s very well explained and answered my exact concern.
I'm a novice gardener, but your explanations were so clear and direct. Thanks!
I’ve learned so much because of the way you explain things. Keep up the excellent work.
Perfect timing for this video! My tomato leaves are curling (only on one plant) and I've wondered what's going on.
Great info! I had no idea about the curly top virus and had it last year on a couple of plants and again on o couple this year! Now I know I didn’t do anything wrong!-Kristy in Missouri!!!
That explains a lot, thank you! I have always tried to feed my tomatoes to combat the leaves curling up.
Putting out solid content! thank you sir learning a lot💚
Yes absolutely love your advice. Thank you so much for your time and help.
Best video I’ve seen on these three issues! Thank you.
Thank you for such an educational video! I've had upward leaf curl suddenly on two tomato plants started indoor under a grow light - I moved them from the light, thinking perhaps this was the problem, as it was only the two and it was so sudden. Your video has assured me this is more then likely the problem. Very informative and well done - subscribing to your channel
Ah man! Thank God that I found your video! I have some beautiful tomato plants that I started by seed that have been having this upward curling of there leaves that I have never really experienced before. It is so good to know what the problem is and what you can do about it. You are such a wonderful instructor!
Thank you Luke, I can most always find the answer to my questions in one of your videos. I'm not a hugely successful gardener, but I give it my best shot every year. I'm trying Cucamelons this year in a pot next to a trellis. I see some on the plant and am very excited.
Thanks for making a video that's just straight up informative. No bullshit, no over-the-top shouting at the camera, just straight actual useful information. 👌
amen
you would make a great highschool teacher
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Yes. Yes. Just info. Don’t need whiz bang sounds and explosions.
What other channels have you been watching? Lol
Thank you! I actually have that happening right now. My tomato plants are getting tall and some of the tall plants are getting those curled leaves... Thank you! Your explanation makes perfect sense.
Amazing timing, I was literally just looking this up this morning and came across your video tonight. Thank you! Love your videos (and all the seeds I planted from MI)!
Excellent video!!!...very thorough, it helped me a lot. Now, I understand my plants more. Greatly appreciated!!! :-)
Thanks, Luke. Very interesting.
And again dropping some serious knowledge
Oh my gosh lol I am so relieved. I thought my deep watering was hurting the tomato plants lol. I have peppers, tomatoes, sage and marigolds in the same bed and everything is doing well but my tomato leaves were curling yesterday. Now I know it's because it was a hot, sweltering and sunny day lol. Thank you very very much!
thanks luke for another great video , im growing tomatoes in my second bedroom and i got them in 5 gallon buckets, i just ordered from you tigerella, green zebra, costuloto, and japanese black trifle tomato, they were shipped yesturday wootwoot can wait to get them and I have a friend who is going to Oaxaca Mexico (kind of far) and I told him to bring me a Zapotec Tomato or just the seeds. I live right at the border so im 6 blocks from Mexico. great episode like always, . I wish my kids get into gardening sometime in the future but they are in high school and middle school.
This is probably the most informative tomato video I've ever watched! Thank you so much and when I go out to the garden tomorrow I will have a good look at exactly what the leaves look like.
wish it would open.
Thank you for this very helpful information. As someone who is new to growing tomatoes, it is very appreciated.
Exactly what I needed to know with perfect reasoning. Thanks.
Thank you SO much for this video. It has helped and appreciate your hard work.
OH thank god i found this video, I was reading online and was convinced my simple leaf curl was some horrible virus i needed to rip out my garden for. Thank you thank you
That was me right now!!! I got scared for the surrounding tomatoe plants without curls,so i just cut a whole bunch of branches off the curled uo tomatoe plant.. I hope it doesnt die 🤣😂😂😂but i found this video too late 😂🤣
Glad I saw this. We had multiple days in GA with super low humidity and I didn’t think about it’s impact on the plants. We also then had multiple days in the mid 80s before dropping back into the 50s. A true roller coaster.
You are such a good communicator. What you said about leaf curling makes sense, thank you for sharing it in a way I can understand.
Thanks! Good information. I have tomatoes curling up, but I live in Arizona so it can be any, or all, of the 3 things you mentioned. I won't be as worried now.
I've been wondering what my leaf curl issues have been about. This video clarified things immensely. Thank you!
This is so helpful! Finally found the cause for top leaf curl!
I am growing tomatoes in a tropical country. This video really helps me. Thanks, dude.
Very comprehensive Luke! Great info. Thank you!
I have downward curling leaves and will reduce the frequency of watering to see if that helps. I'm definitely saving this video! Great job!
I'm currently having this exact problem with my beafsteak tomatoes, thank you for putting my mind at ease.
Super clear tutorial. You get right to the point. Thanks MIgardener!
First year gardening, from MI also thanks for the information. Doing a lot from seeds inside ready to go out soon, some starter plants also. I’m also a bee keeper so that’ll be good for the garden and help them also. Again thanks for sharing!
I am a new CZcamsr and I started since Covid19. I started a backyard garden and I watch videos to aid my farming skills. I have tomatoes in my garden and I definitely see the curling happening. I think it's because of the dry season that cause them to be like that. I think your video was quite educational. I'm going to watch with my husband again later. I really appreciate your fluency and knowledge of the content
As a novice gardener and fellow Michigander, thanks for this video.i just discovered your channel, and look forward to learning from it.
Thanks for the video. This is something I had been wondering about.
Holy cow Luke that was the ultimate informative video on leaf curl. I don't think I've ever seen anybody cover it so well. Kudos.
Did your plant survived after his advise?
agreed 1000000%
Agree 💯! The best video I’ve seen in leaf curl 🍃
Thanks for the info Luke!
Great video! This was so educational and informative. Thank you, Luke!!
I am going to re-watch all your videos next winter and spring so I do a better job of taking care of my garden, thank you.
Still helpful even now Luke! Just this morning I was looking at my Brandywine and was concerned because a lot of leaves were curling up but the plant was looking so happy otherwise! It's been a bit windy here so I bet that was the cause. You took a huge stresser off my shoulders🥰
This video is amazing! You're so knowledgeable! Thank you!:)
Thank you for explaining why leaves curls on tomatoes. Some of my tomato plants have this condition. So helpful to understand the different types of curls.
Very informative Thank You. I am just filling in with my neighbors garden while on vacation. I was so nervous when seeing tomato leaves curl. Not nervous now
I’m amazed at how timely your good advice presents itself on CZcams… was just wondering about my curling tomato leaves on this 80 degree day… thanks again… 🐸
I feel the same. I had 110 just last week but I think mine began with a leaf hopper. Ugh!
The video was uploaded in August of 2019. You commented that the advice was presented 'timely' at the end of June 2021. Computer software to identify what you may be interested in is indeed amazing.
This was very helpful. All of the leaves on my plants are curling up. I thought it was some kind of illness that had spread to everything. It's a relief to know that it's just the heat/dry air that's causing it.
What a great video! So informative and as others have said straight up information with no fancy cuteness like some of the people do. Two thumbs up to you!
Best info on tomato plants and leaf curl. In depth yet understandable.
VERY impressed with this talk as he recommended Azomite, which I added to my potting soil for the first time this year. BOOM, all blossom end rot over, fantastic tomato growth and flavor. It's unique ground volcanic rock from Utah loaded with tons of micro and trace nutrients.
Thank you for mentioning this! My first of tomatoes and they all have blossom end rot and curling leaves!
Great information Thank You for sharing I'm still learning myself 😊👍
Thank you so much! I have upward leaf curl and was panicked but it makes total sense since it has been very hot and windy--I have never heard the explanation before.
Wow, I came across this video last nite after doing some search on leaf curl. This video is perfect!!! Growing my very first large tomato plant & the leaves are all curled so I figured it's lacking something (newbie to gardening) but after watching this video I see it's not. I live in the Caribbean & it's hot temperatures everyday which explains the upturn leaf curls.
As a new gardner / grower I appreciate this information.
Agreed
even if its wrong
@@randybird9979 Explain please.
@@strakill if the leaves curl on a healthy plant, there is a reason and it can be other things, can be root bound, that will cause it, plant nutrition will cause it, these two are likely the culprit
@@strakill after taking another look at the video, I see the problem, his raised beds are to shallow, his plants will get root bound real quick, forgive the miss spelling, I had the same problem, I learned the hard way, it takes a huge pot or raised bed for a tomato plant, at the very minimum 24 inch by 24 inch by 16 inch deep, and that is on the verge of being to small, when I lived out in the country I had no problems, when I moved to the city in 2007 the dirt around this house was worst you can imagine, I tried every thing, raised beds, and just like the ones in the video to shallow, a 5 gallon bucket is way to small, I use to think keep the water and plant food to it, it will grow, well not so, if it can not grow underneath it want grow on top the dirt, when your plant is done at the end of the year take a look at the root ball on it, if the pot or the bed, what ever you are growing it in is compacted full of roots, the plant can not grow like that, O it will live all summer and look like it is dying all summer, I went to my county agi ext agent, and told him of my problems, he said a healthy plant can fight off most plant disease, any way I have taken up enough of your time, I hope you can get your garden going, the soil, the volume of your soil, and plant food, and water, is key, do this, try one pot to small and another what you think to be to large, and next year all your pots will be of the what you think to large, personally next year I will have more of the seems to large type, good luck
Thank you for this info. My tomatoes are looking good, but like to be prepared.
Thank you for this video, I came across it while researching something else. So glad that I found this.❤️
this is one of a dozen or more videos I've looked at about this subject and by far the most informative.
Hi and thanks for the video. I live in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) and am growing cherry tomatoes in containers on my balcony. Some of them are in 5L bottles, upside down, and some are in pots on the railing. We get great morning sun to about 11 am on the balcony, so about 5-6 hrs strong sun. It is rainy season here now, so sometimes the plants get just cloudy daylight instead of strong sunlight. Initially, my upside downs had a problem with blossom drop, but I started giving them a 10-30-20 weak fertilizer - they are not dropping blossoms anymore, but still waiting to see fruit setting. I had the first problem you mentioned with the leaves curling, but I think it is just as you said - plant protection from strong sunlight. All of them, upside downs and railing pots, have lots of growth. I just hope, besides the foilage, we also get fruit, so I want to continue w the 10-30-20, and give them seaweed fertilizer because a) it is more organic, and b) contains so many trace minerals. Anyway, wish me luck, and thanks again for you vids! 😉
Thanks for this video I had some issues with a few of the plants I've grown tomato wise. I was wondering if CUrly top affects the soil?
Sure - topical viruses can be transmitted to your next batch of plants from the soil. All it takes is rain water (or your water) splashing it up onto the leaves, or bugs/ants landing on infected soil then on your plants. Don't compost infected plants/leaves and get the infected plants out of the bed at the end of the season. Ditto with any early blight plants - I'd burn them .
Great information without reading! Thank you!
Knowledgeable young man. I learnt a lot. Thank you.
Such a great video, this was super informative and comprehensive. Thanks!!
One of my grandmother’s was raised on a farm in Newfoundland. She swore by manure. Fresh is the best, but commercial cow manure is a best second. I place 3-4 hand fulls of manure at the bottom of the hole, and cover with 3“ of soil , and then place the plant on top. The plant will draw from that reservoir of manure all season long without re-fertilizing. Rotating plants each year is a good idea.
Thanks for the information
Your knowledge blows me away! Thank you for sharing in a way that is easy to understand.
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This was a most important video for me! It was great!
On a gardening scale, I'm in the amateur section. And it stuns me how: every season I learn something new to step up my gardening game!
Thanks!
Can't wait to go home to daignoze my plants 😊.
I learn something new all the time. Been at this for 20 years ❤️
That’s why gardening is so fun.. it’s a constant game of problem solving and trial/error.
@@JenniferH1724 Iv gardened for 65 years An always learn something new ever year .
this is so helpful - especially knowing the physiological reasons why leaves curl. thankyou
Great info Luke. I have so much to learn and your videos are such a tremendous help. Thanks again 🤗🌻
Thanks man, I was starting to freak out. But I now see that much of my leaf curl is a response to our local environment.
Great video! Lots of great information. I’m new at gardening and just happened to come across your video. Thanks so much for putting this out there!
Great video! This is my first year planting tomatoes and your videos are helping me a lot! I have a question... my tomatoes fruits though start very high up on the plant, like above the 3ft, i see yours start very close to the ground. What have I done wrong? Any ideas?
This answered all my questions about leaf curl. Thank You!
Thank you SO much. This was extremely helpful.
I'm a landscaper and recently I've become aware of a liquid phosphoric acid fungicide. I've been told that it's a great way to apply phosphorus to lawns and plants because it is well absorbed. I think it's been working very well and seems to be helping the lawn resist fungus. Have you ever used such a product on your vegetables ?
You are the best! I was wondering why my big luscious tomato 🍅 plant 🌱 leaves were curling under! I think I sometimes water 💦 too much 🤦🏼♀️
Me too! But living in Arizona I need too
Even in Michigan, we have had some 90+ degree days. When it's hot, I thought plants tended to dry out in hot weather. So I watered them more.
Thanks, totally addressed my concern. Excellent video, very informative and therefore very helpful.
Keep sharing, blessings to the journey and good health for all
Hey MIGardner! Really love your videos, as a budding but novice gardner, I've seen most of them at this point. This is my first foray into trying to single stem them (they're all indeterminate)I've got about 8 really good looking tomato plants going right but one is giving me fits. It's got a serious case of leaf curl with what looks Ike burnt edges(but no yellowing). It's mainly on the lower branches but not exclusively. I tried soaking it down real thoroughly but that didn't help so I'm guessing it either can't take the water into its system or it's some virus. I live in Seattle and we haven't broken 75 degrees yet so it isn't the heat or sun. Any thoughts? I've got some pics but don't know how to share them here.
Anyway, I'm sure you're insanely busy right now, best of luck this year and keep the videos coming. Don't hold it against me but I was raised just south of Michigan so... Go Buckeyes!!
I love your channel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and love of gardening. I have a simple question about when It is a good time to begin a fall garden with direct sowing in a raised bed? I've never done a fall garden and live in Armada because we have clay soil in my backyard, Unfortunately could not get my garden beds built in time for planting. I don't have to explain the problem spring we've had to deal with, Since we live close to your area here in MI. I have many health issues that have kept me unable to garden for the last 30 yrs. Now with raised beds becoming more recently brought to my attention, I appreciate the chance to see if I'm able to grow my favorite vegetables and fruits again in Hope's it will be possible for me to physically do. I would appreciate your advice on when to start my zucchini,cucumbers and beans. I've calculated that now is time to sow them. Thank you for for any assistance you have in advice for me. I can't seem to find any info researching.
Thanks for very detailed explanation on curly tomato leaves topic.
Amazing video. Thank you. I live in a place that gets constant deluges well into August, when it suddenly gets hot and dry for a few months. I will be on the look out for downward leaf curl this year.
Perfect timing I was just wondering why
mine are curling up , it’s been really hot 🥵
Me too
Interesting and informative, thank you!
Watched this again this year. Always open to learn something new.
Thanks Luke! SO helpful - as always!
And all this time I thought it was me talking to my plants and boring them with my stories. "Save that boring nonsense for your videos" they would tell me. I was sure that I had over talked them and they lost the will to grow.
I've stopped flooding them...Hope to report good news soon! Thanks for your video!
Over here in wisconsin, my heirlooms are quite low to the ground and the hybrids that I planted seem to be doing much better. I had a rough start either way, black birds too my newly planted heirlooms and ripped the tops right off. Then the plant sent out side shoots and every one of them trying to turn into a tomato bush. Lots of wasted plant energy, made a late start even later.
I had the same problem with one specific plant. Bird was making a nest kept picking at it.
You can prune off the side shoots
I learned so much from one video. So informative I must say. Oh I always get so excited when summer is here! I wish I had planting area like you.
Having been scouring the internet for information like this. Thank you so much ... very informative
One you forgot that can be important is herbicide. This can happen from using grass clippings for mulch that had 2-4D sprayed on it, which is in some weed killers. Watering well after this mishap can help, but you could be in trouble.
Also, the white butterfly in your background was the cabbage moth. Spraying Bt, an organic pesticide, is the remedy. There were actually two mating! You can also pick off the cabbage moth in its caterpillar form as well as use netting (though you have to do that very early 8n the season)
He did a whole video about BT and the cabbage moth 👍🏻
Yep true and Grazon toxin too
I learned about this white moth from MI. Long ago.
Very informational, it answered the questions I had about the leaf curl I am seeing g on my tomatoes, thank you
Keep up the great work.
Thank you I've learned so much from this video 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Very informative Luke! Love your channel!