tomatoes leaves

[christiana]

Hi all,
Back from period of intensive health sorting out and ready to go - well more or less.
Some of my tomatoes in the greenhouse have leaves all curled up tight. The leaves at the bottom of the plant are fine and big. Further up the stem they are so tightly rolled you can hardly see them. And not for the first time. I have looked in the RHS encyclopedia of gardening, Joy Larkin, the polytunnel handbook and can't even find a description of the problem. There are no insects around that I can see and I left the greenhouse fallow last year. The toms are all in pots.
Has anyone any idea what this is and is there a solution.

Christine

[sooty]

Check out my Tomato blog, I did a little post about curling leaves.
You can also email a picture to me if you want.

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Regards Steve
AKA Mr Tomato King

[Madame Moorhen]

Think it's something about temperature difference and some toms are more inclined to this than others - Gardeners' Delight for example are bad for this. However as far as I can see it makes not a jot of difference to the growth of the plant and as they get older they unfurl anyway.

[christiana]

Thanks for the responses. I think the variety may well have something to do with it. Tomatoes affected are italian plums for bottling. And I will just keep hanging in there - they do seem to be flowering and indeed producing some fruit.
Christine

[Ali]

Christiana and Sooty - thank you for your prompt today Have been and taken off a lot of suckers this afty (on the tomatoes btw).

Is it fair to say that planting toms a good deal deeper than their root system is a good way to go. Thats what I usually do to give them as much depth and chance of water as poss.

[Madame Moorhen]

I always plant deeper (right from when potting on from seedling stage) cos everyone says to and Monty was just saying so on Friday!!! However despite him going on about how vigorous the side shoots were I was very surprised he didn't tell people they could make free/new plants from them!

I have 3 cherry toms in tubs outside the house and the only one that has curly top leaves is the GD - which reminded me of this problem just before Christiana's question - because last year I didn't grow GDs and had forgotten about it. Which is why I think it is a variety thing.