My window, balcony and garden: 2025
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Had something similar happen this week for me. Gave them a nitrogen heavy feed, and the newer growth has gotten a bit greener, but yea lower leaves are continuing to go yellow, looking exactly like yours. Mines a yellow twist bud/nostrano del brenta cross pollination, so guess burley as well!?
Enough burley genes made it to keep the yellowing going early.
My garden patch is new, and untested- there’s patches of strange soil dug up from where a pond and a trampoline were put in ground, plus, in order to fill the holes back, random branches from trees were buried.
When wood decomposes, it takes nitrogen out of the soil. I once free 2 plants in an orchid mix filled with bark chips- one did great, one was sickly and always yellow.
I finally figured out why: the healthy plant’s wood chips were soaked in full strength triple-20 fertilizer. The sickly one: in plain water. The saturation of nitrogen kept the
plant from having to fight for nitrogen, and it grew beautifully.
I think there might be some branches buried deeper than I thought in a few spots where plants are pale. This combined with the easy color curing nature of burley got me these yellowed plants- while the ones right next to it are a nice green color.
Hopefully it won’t affect flavor/nicotine…
Time will tell.
Post some photos of the entire plants, to provide some context.
Bob
Bob
Where did the symptoms start? Bottom, middle, or top leaves?
This was the 1st plant I noticed: Jaffna.
At first I thought it was ripening, due to alligator skin texture on all leaves- lower first, then within a week, the tops, too.
Then I noticed the darkening of the leaf veins…
At first I thought it was ripening, due to alligator skin texture on all leaves- lower first, then within a week, the tops, too.
Then I noticed the darkening of the leaf veins…
Weather has been hot, up to about 80F.
With rain every week, some thunderstorms, too.
I’ve gone ahead and topped the entire field, because everything was already at an early button stage- flowers were formed but hadn’t emerged from the leaf cluster that surrounds them.
I just checked the Virginia Gold, and they show no signs of infection, along with the rusticas.
With rain every week, some thunderstorms, too.
I’ve gone ahead and topped the entire field, because everything was already at an early button stage- flowers were formed but hadn’t emerged from the leaf cluster that surrounds them.
I just checked the Virginia Gold, and they show no signs of infection, along with the rusticas.
There are some nutitional deficiencies and nutritional toxicities that start in the lower leaves and migrate upwards. Where the symptoms began is good for eliminating other nutritional possibilities. Since you know what you added or didn't add to the soil these keys may help in diagnosing the problem and possible solution. Your leaves are showing the interveinal chloriosis plus the necrotic tissue breakdown causing the browning. For example, boron toxicity, magnesium deficiency, and potassium deficiencies show symptoms in the lower leaves first, then migrate upwards along with chloriosis and necrotic tissue.
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Another possibility is a viral outbreak. You might scan through the images for each of the tobacco viruses here:
Some examples of photos to look through:
Some examples of photos to look through:
- Alfalfa Mosaic Virus
- Fusarium Wilt
- Tobacco Leaf Curl Virus
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus
- Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
- glyphosate
- other herbicides
Thank you for the replies!
Considering I fertilized everything with the same fertilizer, at the same rate, I would think a toxicity would be showing in the smaller plants (Hyang Cho and the rusticas), rather than the well established bright strains.
Herbicide drift is possible- my garden directly borders a commercial farm. But the other plants would’ve been exposed at the same time, and are showing a slower start of symptoms- the Virginia gold would have caught a cloud of herbicide first, and is totally unaffected.
Most likely it is a virus….leaf curl looks the
Most likely.
Looks like this year’s harvest is going to be sub-par, at best….
Considering I fertilized everything with the same fertilizer, at the same rate, I would think a toxicity would be showing in the smaller plants (Hyang Cho and the rusticas), rather than the well established bright strains.
Herbicide drift is possible- my garden directly borders a commercial farm. But the other plants would’ve been exposed at the same time, and are showing a slower start of symptoms- the Virginia gold would have caught a cloud of herbicide first, and is totally unaffected.
Most likely it is a virus….leaf curl looks the
Most likely.
Looks like this year’s harvest is going to be sub-par, at best….
Just as smoke from a cigar my waft and swirl in strands and loops and rings, herbicide drifting past trees, as well as over and around fencing my display vortices that deposit the drift unevenly. Just a thought. And tobacco is certainly a "broadleaf weed".
Bob
And the Virginia Gold and Jaffna were the first put into my garden: rapeseed is growing on the other side of the fence.
But plants put into the ground just in the last month or so are starting to show symptoms, and the rapeseed crop is ripening, and nothing is being sprayed.
Was the area you are having problems with near where the buried brush and branches were found? That can affect the nutrients.
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My window, balcony and garden: 2025
In order to get a comparison between my growing medium, and my garden soil, I planted a PYKY-171 seedling in a 26L container and placed it outside. This sized container has given me full sized tobacco plants in the past, and I’m hoping for the same with this variety, so I can figure out what my...
My first thought was I missed a bunch of branches under the Jaffna, so I went and traced my steps- no branches could’ve been there. It was under grass for twenty years. All the buried branches were at the middle of the patch- about 12’/4meters, or more, away from the Jaffna.Was the area you are having problems with near where the buried brush and branches were found? That can affect the nutrients.
My window, balcony and garden: 2025
In order to get a comparison between my growing medium, and my garden soil, I planted a PYKY-171 seedling in a 26L container and placed it outside. This sized container has given me full sized tobacco plants in the past, and I’m hoping for the same with this variety, so I can figure out what my...
I’m still leaning towards a virus since it has spread over the entire patch, skipping the rusticas and the Virginia Gold.
Heavy clay soil with not enough sand and compost stunted the plants this year, but, everything was healthy, except for the Jaffna, which showed symptoms a week or so before topping.
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