Help with tomato plants please

[Hazzy]

Hi, Am a newbie to this forum so hello.
Was just wondering if anyone can help. I have grown tomatoes from seed this summer, in containers. Just moneymaker and gardeners delight as a bit of a newbie. They have fruited and some are ripening now this has happened.


The background to them is - they are outside in containers, the weather has gone from scorching sun to lots of rain to almost autumnal. I feed them occasionally and I pruned the leaves incorrectly I think. It's my first time with tomatoes.
Am hoping I have attached the photos correctly. They show blackened leaves on one plant and shrivelled wilting on another 2.
Thanks.

[Nannysally99]

Magnesium deficiency or something similar. A couple if mine have done that.
Someone knowledgeable will be along soon

[Thelma Sanders]

They look as if they were desperately short of feed, which is why they turned purple round the edges - but the brown leaves and collapsed stems look as if they have blight now as well

[Scarlet]

I would agree with Thelma ^^^.

[roitelet]

Where are you Hazzy, it helps to know then the advice will be more accurate. BTW welcome to the vine.

[Hazzy]

Thanks everyone for your help. I meant to put where I live. It's in the East Midlands. Just looked at the feed I use and it has nitrogen not magnesium. Thank you

[roitelet]

Keep up with the feed it add a dash of Epsom salts for the magnesium.

[solanaceae]

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...-blight-2.html

[Hazzy]

Thank you everyone. Will get some Epsom salts tomorrow. I guess if it's blight they are all done for now. A live and learn moment. Next year I shall order some decent seeds in the hope it helps. Shame as they are so nearly ready. Thanks for the link and help I am reading it all avidly.

[Shadylane]

Our outdoor ones look like that. Probably a combination of nutrient defiency and suuden drop in temps.

There's not a great deal you can do about blight, even so called resitant varieties tend to get it eventually. Even last year when it was very dry, our outdoor ones eventully succumbed. I pulled out a Roma the other day which was affected and froze all the toms for green tomato chutney. I only grow spares outside as I've found the only way to avoid it is to grow undercover. I don't think yours have blight though so don't pull them yet.