Can anyone identify this disease. Plant has been removed and destroyed but unfortunately looks like it’s spreading to other plants across multiple varieties.
You need to do some pruning. Open them up for air flow and take out lower branches.
Tomatoes are highly susceptible to herbicides. Any chance yours got any exposure at all?
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That might be damage from spraying roundup near the plants but IMO, it is more likely tomato yellow leaf curl virus. It is spread by whiteflies and sometimes other insects. Look up the symptoms and see if it matches.
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Certainly not any herbicide from me. Possible it’s drift from a neighbor but TYLCV was my suspicion. Either that or one of the mosaic viruses. Looks like tomato season is over for me before it starts. Unreal.
There are varieties that are supposed to be resistant. You’d be off to a late start, but could still do some tomatoes.
Payette was bred for resistance to Curly Top. It is a compact determinate that will give roughly 12 pounds of small tomatoes per plant. They taste ok. Like a 68 day maturity.
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At the risk of furthering the Internet pattern of a thousand disparate opinions to a single question asked, marknmt has an idea that I’m afraid no one has fully expanded upon as of yet:
Did you add anything to this bed (store bought soil amendment, straw/hay, mushroom compost, etc.) since you last grew tomatoes in it? After seeing similar growth in my tomato starts over a decade ago I stopped using any animal manure products in my garden. I was concerned about the issue of herbicides that persistent long after having passed through the gut of the animal, chemicals which were applied to the field in order to produce “higher quality” hay that had less weeds in it.
You say that you are in Mississippi so your growing season likely lasts longer than here in north Georgia. There’s no reason to give up on growing tomatoes this year, find some local tomato plants available for purchase and hop to it.
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Tordon is very persistent in animal manures, lasting years. One state agronomist (MSU Bozeman) told us that if it gets into your garden (via manure) you can’t grow much of anything except onions and grass for up to five years.
Beans are also highly susceptible, and are used to do bioassays .
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