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This is my tomatoes. What the heck is wrong with the leaves. This is not growing on them, it is an outgrowth of them. The bumps are soft enough that they flatten to some degree when I run my finger over them. This pattern is present on all the tomato plants, but no other species. They're also bearing a considerable amount of fruit.

I've never seen that one before

I'd say either some sort of insect, or disease. Either way, I'd prune off and dispose of the funky leaves.

But see if somebody else recognizes it.

Looks like some sort of fungus- I'd be chopping all infected branches off ASAP and disposing of them where it cant spread.

GMO seeds or Tomato Warts? Honestly looks like White Rust Fungus.

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-p ... isease.htm

Or your fish Ick just mutated....

I looked this up and it says that it affects cruciferous plants only. This is a tomato issue. the broccoli and kale are unaffected.

I first noticed it after I applied a foliar spray, but I haven't applied it recently and it continues.

Do the spots come off easily when you try to rub them off? Some sucking insects put on a protective cover like scale and mealy bugs but I don't think that's what this is.

I think they look like Callus tissue like what you get when you do plant tissue culture (https://www.google.com/search?q=tomato+callus&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=88NDVaPeI4bEogSEwoEw&ved=0CDgQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=957). I'd probably call them either Tumors or Galls. If they are galls there may be an insect living inside, like a wasp larvae (there are a whole bunch of different gall wasps although I'm not sure any normally affect tomatoes). Callus tissue could also just be forming where an insect bit the leaf although you'd think something in the bite induced it as well (like a virus)

I thought I was having tomato problems, but yours really takes the cake. That's pretty nasty stuff. Here are my bottommost leaves which have all started to get crispy and curly. Anybody know what's happening here?

I think it might be a little bit of potassium deficiency on your tomato plant SR.

No, they're not mealy bugs or scale. The bumps are outgrowths of the leaves. They don't appear large enough to be galls. As the leaves age, the bumps flatten out and become brown areas.

See if you can get a pic of the brown spots maybe someone will recognize it from this

Okay. Here's something new… What do you guys make of these little bumps along the main plant stem/trunk? I just noticed these, and they look sort of like something laid eggs, but I didn't see what did it.

For the ones that were on the surface, I scraped them off.

The bumps along the stem like that are pretty normal for tomatoes. If you were to put the plant into a deeper hole I'm pretty sure those would become roots.

That surprises the heck out of me. It's true, I have very little experience growing tomatoes, so I will watch them. The thing that's strange is that they are growing more vigorously on the backsides of the plants, and not all the way around. It's as if they're hidden. I'm also not seeing these growths on the tomato plants in my wicking beds, just the LECA grow beds. In any case, the cherry tomato plants that are in the grow bed are enormous. Probably 4-5 feet tall at this point and still just flowering. It seems very reasonable that they would want a more established root system.
Thank you very much for the guidance!

SickRadish, it almost looks like you have 2 things happening on the stem??
In your first pic, the bumps on the left of the stem appear different than on the right hand edge.
The ones on the right are definitely nodes where roots want to burst forth. I've been reading they do this when the environment is humid enough that the plant thinks growing out a root will pay off.
They're harmless, but an indicator that pruning for increased ventilation is in order.
The advice I was given is to remove all leaves within a foot of the ground/GB to start.

Got any closer pics of the 'left handed bumps'? They could be nodes that are just further advanced in sending out a rootlet but it'd be good to know they're not eggs of something.

Very interesting! Well, it is definitely humid in there. – about 70%, and these plants are in the GB that floods every few minutes.. They're definitely not thirsty.

Upon closer inspection of my other tomato plants that are in wicking beds, I'm starting to see some similar bumps. If it's root nodes, I'm hoping that's not indicative of more vertical growth. These plants are out of control as it is. I'd like them to just get busy and start to fruit.

As for the other kinds of bumps that we saw, I'm keeping an eye out for any sort of activity from pests, but none have shown their faces yet. My greenhouse runs remarkably pest free (fingers crossed), considering I'm not doing anything for control yet.

Here are some more detailed pics of those mysterious bumps.