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Distorted growing tips on tomato plants in Levingtons Original Growbag

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,143

    Contact details for Levington's - 



    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Toward the end of the video..

    https://youtu.be/FcNJiqB4Mwg

  • Tortoise19Tortoise19 Posts: 13
    Thank you.
  • Thank you.
    No probs.. he has a few videos highlighting the weedkiller issue. 
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,120
    Thanks @REMF33 @Tortoise19 @Chris-P-Bacon I have reported too.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • Tortoise19Tortoise19 Posts: 13
    Levingtons have responded. They doubt it is hormone chemical damage. Instead they are suggesting that I have over watered and need to be aware the grow bags contain more forest bark now due to less peat so retain water differently. They have also suggested that temperature fluctuations caused the leaf curling. To make sure I am watering correctly they suggested I tested the compost dampness by poking my finger into it! They have offered me a garden voucher to compensate for the problems I have had. 
    I am not convinced that watering is the issue and await a repose from the other link. 
    The lower trusses are beginning to fruit but the top trusses are fruiting but the fruit is very small and pointed. Cucumber continues to fruit as normal and other tomatoes not in the grow bag are normal.
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,120
    edited July 2022
    I haven't had a reply from HB. One of my neighbour, who is a gardener with lots of experience, told me that the damage is due to weedkiller in the compost. The proof is that the tomato plants that were potted on the same day from the same bag of compost has this curling, whereas the ones from the same lot which were potted a week earlier with a different bag of compost are just normal.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 805
    This is a good article: Weedkiller in manure / RHS Gardening
    It has a link to a test you can do and tells you who to report it to aswell.
  • PlashingPlashing Posts: 328
    If you look on Charles Dowding web site he has been having trouble with the stable manure that he has been getting because they have been using certain sprays, he has even wrote a article in Gardeners World and complained to certain suppliers without any real success.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,090
    I thought that weedkillers became inert after a length of time,  seems that’s not so.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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