Strange coloration and wilting
This is my first year actually gardening and some of my plants specifically tomatoes have leaves that are wilting up and turning yellow and brown, also the cucumber leaves are white, finally something is eating my Brussels sprouts. I looked it up and it looked like mineral deficieny, so I bought some plant tone and used it but it didn't seem to work. Any suggestion would be appreciated
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Okay - hardening off should take place over a period of at least a week or two - starting out in shade & then slowly moving into sun. So I do suspect that your seedlings are suffering from weather stress/sunscald. There really isn't much you can do at this point apart from waiting things out. Assuming the weather cooperates (as in you don't get any late frosts where you are), they should bounce back once they acclimate.
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I still think it's stress-related. It doesn't look like any type of blight or pest that I've ever seen, & this early in your zone I'd think it would be a bit early for either of those anyway. But I'm not a tomato expert. How is your watering regimen? Too dry soil can also cause leaf-edge yellowing/browning like that.
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