The leaves are brittle and hard and you can see the weird yellowing. I've looked at them with my pocked scope and I'm not seeing any mites.
What's wrong with this one?
You can see it here right next to healthy plants. I've had probably 3 that look like this out of all my seedlings. I tossed one but there's another one in this same bed. Whattya spose is wrong with them?
Sue, your plants look sort of like a few of mine. I asked Susie and she asked if the backs of the leaves were bronze or purplish or something. LOL Anyway, mine were not and I sent her a pic and she thought it was just from recent fertilizing.
Check the backs of the leaves for bronzing. If you see that, it's broad mites. They are impossible to see even with a hand lens. You can see them with a microscope sometimes, but they bury in the leaf tissue. Avid will get rid of broad mites.
Several people on another site posted leaves like this after fertilizing on a hot day. They straightened up eventually.
I'll check again. I don't recall any bronzing. I don't think it's fertilizer ... it really hasn't been very hot here and it gets the same doses all the others do. It seems like they've been like this since they were teenie babies. I kept thinking they'd snap out of it.
Hmmm. Hey, which brugs are they? My funny leaves were all limited to one kind but here recently a couple of others are doing it too. But they are still putting out new leaves and look okay otherwise.
Sorry, I have no clue. At least it does not seem to be contagious if you have had them side by side for so long.
One of the seedlings from Monikas seeds did that. It always grew weird.
I went out to examine them some more. No bronsing on the backs... but looking again with my scope, I see a few eggs. I didn't see any live mites but maybe they're just too small. I thought I had hit these with avid once but I'll spray them tomorrow. I certainly don't want it to spread to the other plants.
Have they had aphids in the past? Sometimes aphid damage will make the new growth come out funny, even after the bugs are all gone. Could be spray damage from something that's been sprayed in the past, could be just weird brug growth!