Nutrient deficiency? Disease? TMV?

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TheImpatientGardener

FYI, just got back from a 4 day vacation when this started (I had a roommate water my plants while I was away).
 
Alright, about 3 days ago I noticed the lower leaves of one/two of my tomato plants yellow (new growth) and touching the soil. I figured it was from underwatering so I watered the plants and the next day there was no change (infact the plants were worse off, and another plant started showing symptoms I believe). I then figured there must be a nutrient deficiency so I lightly fertilized one plant and left it be to see if there was difference.
 
Now I can not ignore what must be happening, possible fungal/virus/disease. I did not initially worry about this since the plants were grown exculsively indoors (and I'm more of a pepper fiend) but I'm a fool to think this way as I've seen the occaisonal fly etc in the garage.
 
NEXT: My pepper plants, mostly my Red Savina plants, have been curling upwards and becoming wrinkly and slightly off color (I think, it's hard to tell sometimes after looking at the plants under the growlights) for about 2 weeks now. Is this caused by too much light exposure (18hr/day with LED lights approx 16-24" above the plants). Are these related? What could have caused this? What actions should I take in either diagnosing or treating this? I'd like to avoid any heavy pesti/fungicides but I'll do what's required to get this under control. Until then I've moved all the seemingly affected plants (tomato, as the pepper plants haven't been "quarantined" this whole time and any spreading would have most likely occured by now) away from the other plants. Let me know if you guys need some better pictures!
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Inconsistent watering can lead to nutrient lockout (especially too much water) and produce the symptoms you are seeing on the peppers and tomatoes.
 
- Your peppers will definitely be fine, especially after potting up with good soil. Let the soil dry a tad between waterings.
 
- I'm nearly positive the tomatoes are not diseased, they look like the victims of poor care. I see about 3 to 4 leaves that will never recover and should probably be snipped off. Those leaves are most at risk of bacterial / viral infection now (worst case scenario).
 
Keep the leaves as dry as you can, unless you are spraying them with an anti-bacterial / anti-fungal agent.
 
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Lets see if anyone can guess what caused this?? Lol
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Yes and no lol. It was trimmed and topped then over nute followed by under watering followed by overwatering without any nutes to flush everything all intentiinal though trying to stress it to its max im wanting tonmake a bonsai out of it next year.. next on the list once its about back to normal is no water until it looks almost dead or 2 weeks whichever comes 1st. If this thing ends up makin peppers at all I bet they r waay hotter than your average caribean hab.
Just trying to demonstrate the xtremes these plants can take.. and get a strong little bonsai in the process. Without disease you literally would have to try to kill it to suceed. The last time it was nuted I almost a week ago i used 10x the amount instructed. And all the others are fine maybe right tho I couldve went a little heave on the water yesterday I water weekly but without measurement I just go off weight of the pot itself vs a dry one I have filled.
 
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