Is anyone familiar with these black specs on my tomato plant? I can scratch them off with my finger nail. There are a few leaves with some web type substance as well. Also if you know of any organic treatments, please include that in your response! Thank you

I'm thinking spider mites. Has it been hot and dry where you are? Take a sheet of white paper and hold it under a leaf while you tap the leaf with our other hand. If you see tiny specs on the paper and they are moving, it's most likely spider mites. They are very hard to get rid of, standard pesticides don't get rid of them. You would need a specific miticide, and I don't think it is organic. Néem oil, which is organic could be used if the temps are low enough, but as bad as that plant is infected it would be better to pull it and destroy it and plant a new tomato, if you can find one at a garden center. You also need to check surrounding plants. I'm organic, and because organic substances tend to be milder than chemical ones, you have to do a garden tour every morning to catch issues before they become bad.

Spider mites seems to be what they are indeed! We are organic and are hoping spraying a neem and castille soap mixture for a week each morning will do the trick. If not, we will have to remove the plant from the bed.
Thoughts on doing this process for a week and if that may be too risky for neighboring plants?

I'm not sure what the black spots are but on top of that, your plant looks seriously chlorotic — unless it's an exotic patterned variety I'm not familiar with. Are you fertilizing?

Could you show a picture of the whole plant?

The way the leaves might be due to the mites. It's hard to tell. It could be the plant had serious issues before the spider mites infected it.

We have uprooted the tomato plant. I'm now keeping a very close eye on the surrounding plants. The plants were looking mostly healthy, though I have just learned of fruit splitting disease, which I didn't realize was a disease. The tomatoes were often split. Perhaps they were really sick for a while, we have had them since they were five inches and they were up to 8 feet or so, fruiting since April. There's things I notice and don't really know what's 'good or bad' and definitely prefer to cause minimal harm to any life in the garden. We definitely pulled a few horned worms off the tomatoes recently and I also notice a lot of bugs, all kinds and lots of ants in certain areas. I am realizing how much I have to learn about growing healthy crops. Glad I found this resource. You all are amazing!

Well, if it was eight feet tall and bearing fruit, something was right! Your caution is probably justified. Those leaves looked bad, and why risk spreading disease.

I call tomatoes the divas of the veggies because so many things can go wrong.