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I got a bad feeling about this...
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Windmere
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I got a bad feeling about this...
Well guys, I am expecting the worst... but what do you think my Yellow Pear tomato has?
Here's a close up:
It looks like it might be blight....
Here's a close up:
It looks like it might be blight....
Windmere- Posts : 1422
Join date : 2013-02-26
Age : 55
Location : Fayetteville, GA - Zone 7B - 8A
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
It really does look like early tomato blight. Pull and destroy, do not compost the debris. Sorry.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tomato+blight&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=insv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ_5T1ldvNAhUD2yYKHbYbAgEQ_AUIBygB#imgrc=oxmk0immHZgy9M%3A
https://www.google.com/search?q=tomato+blight&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=insv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ_5T1ldvNAhUD2yYKHbYbAgEQ_AUIBygB#imgrc=oxmk0immHZgy9M%3A
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Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8843
Join date : 2015-06-12
Age : 62
Location : Ada, Ohio
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Yeah, it doesn't look good Scorpio. I'm in damage control mode.Scorpio Rising wrote:It really does look like early tomato blight. Pull and destroy, do not compost the debris. Sorry.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tomato+blight&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=insv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ_5T1ldvNAhUD2yYKHbYbAgEQ_AUIBygB#imgrc=oxmk0immHZgy9M%3A
Windmere- Posts : 1422
Join date : 2013-02-26
Age : 55
Location : Fayetteville, GA - Zone 7B - 8A
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
If you diagnose blight, Don't try to nurse the plant along, rip it out right away, bag it or burn it.
https://usablight.org/
https://usablight.org/
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Well, there goes my Black Krim. Sorry Windmere for your loss.
I knew it in my heart, but couldn't face it. Thanks for the reminder camprn.
We love them, feed them, celebrate with with them and then RIP!
On the other hand, it's a good excuse for making fried green tomatoes.
I knew it in my heart, but couldn't face it. Thanks for the reminder camprn.
We love them, feed them, celebrate with with them and then RIP!
On the other hand, it's a good excuse for making fried green tomatoes.
FeedMeSeeMore- Posts : 143
Join date : 2014-05-06
Location : Georgia
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Late blight and early blight are different organisms. Late blight infected plants get ripped out. But for early blight I hear more about people removing the affected tomato leaves/fruit. And even then, some people start leaving the dead/dying leaves near the end of the season to try to prevent sun-scald on the tomatoes. Also, some people treat early blight with fungicides. But it's usually just some of the leaves that are affected for most of the season, depending the weather. When it gets give-up-on-the-plant bad it attacks the fruit, too, and then they can't be used for canning because they are half rotten.
... That yellow pear tomato looks like it had gotten to the point of having an infected stem, and there was little chance of salvaging any yield, certainly not enough to increase the risk of infecting nearby plants.
I'm under the impression my tomato plants are likely to get early blight every year no matter what because we have native plants (black nightshade) as a reservoir for airborne spores, and we frequently get fog. Even the resistant varieties aren't fully immune.
I was happy with my yield last year, and the tomato plants look better this year vs last. I've already had to remove a few leaves. But if I can keep them from getting too stressed, the early blight shouldn't reduce my yield too much.
... That yellow pear tomato looks like it had gotten to the point of having an infected stem, and there was little chance of salvaging any yield, certainly not enough to increase the risk of infecting nearby plants.
I'm under the impression my tomato plants are likely to get early blight every year no matter what because we have native plants (black nightshade) as a reservoir for airborne spores, and we frequently get fog. Even the resistant varieties aren't fully immune.
I was happy with my yield last year, and the tomato plants look better this year vs last. I've already had to remove a few leaves. But if I can keep them from getting too stressed, the early blight shouldn't reduce my yield too much.
BeetlesPerSqFt- Posts : 1433
Join date : 2016-04-11
Location : Centre Hall, PA Zone 5b/6a LF:5/11-FF:10/10
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Interesting, BPSF! Hope....but I agree, looks like it is getting into the stem here in Wndmere's tomato.
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8843
Join date : 2015-06-12
Age : 62
Location : Ada, Ohio
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Camprn, thanks for that link to the late blight website. I was glad to see that we don't have a late blight problem here in my area.
Ok, I'm not advocating what I'm about to say, so please don't beat me up.
A day after I posted that picture of the early blight ridden Yellow Pair tomato, I applied Daconil to all my tomato plants (between heavy rains). The blight on all my tomatoes stopped in its tracks and all new growth is clean. There is a clear line between diseased leaves and healthy leaves where it stopped (not unlike the line of stopped worm damage when I apply BT Thuricide to leafy veggies).
Do with that what you will.
Ok, I'm not advocating what I'm about to say, so please don't beat me up.
A day after I posted that picture of the early blight ridden Yellow Pair tomato, I applied Daconil to all my tomato plants (between heavy rains). The blight on all my tomatoes stopped in its tracks and all new growth is clean. There is a clear line between diseased leaves and healthy leaves where it stopped (not unlike the line of stopped worm damage when I apply BT Thuricide to leafy veggies).
Do with that what you will.
Windmere- Posts : 1422
Join date : 2013-02-26
Age : 55
Location : Fayetteville, GA - Zone 7B - 8A
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
It worked for me this year. Of course I stopped using it and the EB is back again. But I have so many tomatoes I am just letting them go now.
yolos- Posts : 4139
Join date : 2011-11-20
Age : 74
Location : Brooks, Ga Zone 7B/8A
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
I am no one's judge. A conscience is what some lack, not you, Windmere.
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8843
Join date : 2015-06-12
Age : 62
Location : Ada, Ohio
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Thanks so much for your vote of confidence Scorpio. Living in the subtropic (ha ha) south, I guess we don't have many options when it comes to ubiquitous fungal diseases.Scorpio Rising wrote:I am no one's judge. A conscience is what some lack, not you, Windmere.
Windmere- Posts : 1422
Join date : 2013-02-26
Age : 55
Location : Fayetteville, GA - Zone 7B - 8A
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Snapdragon Rust. Google images that pop.up are nearly identical.
No_Such_Reality- Posts : 665
Join date : 2011-04-22
Location : Orange County, CA aka Disneyland or Sunset zone 22
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Oh, thank you! I will try a Neem oil solution per article instructions, and pull them out if it gets worse. I was afraid it would be something that would affect my veggies!
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Good luck. I'm sluggo-ing my bed today had the slugs have claimed what would have been the first two pints of strawberries.
No_Such_Reality- Posts : 665
Join date : 2011-04-22
Location : Orange County, CA aka Disneyland or Sunset zone 22
Re: I got a bad feeling about this...
Strawberries! I have to use Sluggo PLUS when I set out my seedlings.
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