Poh
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Tomato problem

Recently I grow some Roma tomato,When They were about one feet high,The top of the pant become scotch.I grow some melon and watermelon too they all have the same problem.Is this one kind of sickness?or too many N?Can't find any infomation from the internet.I grown tomato b4 but never encounter this kind of problem.

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Grey
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What do you mean when you say the top of the plant became scotch?

Poh
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I mean the young shoot(the top of the stalk)become dry and stop growing.I will up load the picture tomorrow.It hapen the same with the watermelon too.

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here is the photo.
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Is this a kind of Virus?It happen to the watermelon too.I plant tomato b4 and never encounter this kind of problem.

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Roger
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To me, it looks like some kind of bacterial wilt, or one of the fungus wilts. Is it affecting just some of your plants, or all of them?

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I had one plant out of 25 do that this year too, at first I thought it wasn't getting enough water, but nope, and finally I removed it to avoid further problems.

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it affect almost all of my plant.About 18 plants in a row.It happen the same to my watermelon too.



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