Is there a problem with this tomato plant?

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  1. rodofgod76

    rodofgod76 Gardener

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    One of my Black Cherry tomato plants has brown patches on it's leaves, and many of them are curling up and are very limp, as if there's not enough water. Yet the soil is moist. Is there a problem? The Black Cherry next to it is fine. There's no shading in the greenhouse. Could it be that?

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    It looks very similar to THIS

    There are four pictures shown, look at the bottom left one.
     
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    Are you sure it hasnt been scorched by too much sun?

    .......just a thought
     
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    It does look like sun scorch to me. I would try and get some shading up.
     
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    A couple of hours after I took that photo the entire branch died. :confused:Does sun scorch do that?? There's 12 tomato plants in total, and only one is affected.
     
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    No I would not expect sun scorch to kill off a branch that quickly.

    Perhaps it's Tobacco Mosiac Virus, I've no direct experience of that, but the advice is to take off the affected leaves and burn them to stop it spreading
     
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    I'm debating whether or not to ditch said plant for the benefit of the others.
     
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    Play safe and ditch it would be my advice.
     
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    :thumb: Ditched it! Just hope none of the others get it. :cool:
     
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