Tommies have blight - Help

[bramble]

No, you're not being cynical, just being careful
Bet its not blight though.

[Sweepster]

Another voice joins in the chorus...

That ain't blight

Yippee

[Bagpuss]

Is it worth giving them a diluted tiny feed at all ?

I can't believe how worried I've been about it with all that is going on in the world, I've spent most of the day itching to get home and look after them ! I've really been bitten by the GYO bug much more that I had thought (or openly admitted !!)

[teakdesk]

SarzWix is completely correct - if she isn't I'll go and buy a hat to eat !!!!!

[Bagpuss]

Thank you for putting my mind at rest grapes. Next time, before I fly into panic mode I shall jump straight on here - and give the GC a miss !!

[MrsC]

It's not blight, totally agree with the above postings and the condensation in a plastic greenhouse etc. A cpl of mine have the same and that's what is causing it, nothing more. Blight devastates a plant as per pic posted earlier, ignore the GC person. I asked a GC person about seed spuds earlier on in the year and when they were expecting them in, the reply was 'you're too late love, shud have been planted last Sept?' I think not lol

[jackie j]

My plastic greenhouse is now being left open at night as well as during the day sos far so good. GC are there to sell you stuff and if they think you havent a clue what you are talking about they will sell you anything.

[Alice]

It doesn't look like blight Bagpuss and if it was the plants would be brown and rotten within a few days.
It looks like scorch marks.

The GC probably weren't trying to rip you off - just employing someone who had no idea what they were talking about. Blight was just a word they knew for tomato problem. You wouldn't expect to see it before August (but it can be earlier)

[Bagpuss]

Thanks for the assurances - knew I could count on the grapes!!

[Lottieval]

I don't know what the others think but I would give them a seaweed feed, it's useful when a plant is stressed, you can buy it in 'decent' GC's!!

[Two_Sheds]

The GC probably weren't trying to rip you off - just employing someone who had no idea what they were talking about. Blight was just a word they knew for tomato problem.

Totally agree with Alice.
People - everywhere - get a problem with their tomatoes and potatoes and just run screaming to the hills: "blight ! blight !" without considering what else it could be (frost, wind burn, scorch, etc).

Blight is a fungal infection that hits us in late-July, August.
Plants in a greenhouse are the last ones to get it.

[Two_Sheds]

btw, I'd write to head office and tell them what happened. Their staff need better training

[Nicos]

Well I'm glad you lot have the same view as me!!!!!!...my first thought was "WHAT????....that's NOT blight!!!!!...please don't have chucked them away!!!!"

Defo scorch !!

I've never had blight either INSIDE the greenhouse...plenty outside- but not inside ( although other peeps haven't been so lucky)

Although I have to say 2sheds- for several years we've had probs with blight in our spuds by mid june- so the spores must have appeared by early June. Maybe we were in a bad area for blight???

I agree that the staff need better training - was it a large garden centre- or a small nursery one??? If it's the former I'd certainly complain cos they should be better trained- no excuse ( it's not even student time yet is it????).
Just think of all the money you would have wasted Bagpuss if you'd bought replacement ones.....I'd go and treat yourself to something spesh from there- and ask for discount in lieu of the stress !!!

Nice to hear a bit of good news for a change isn't it???

[thecarnage]

This may help: Tomato Leaf Disorders - Tomato Problem Solver | Aggie Horticulture

[Nicos]

thecarnage.....good one !!!!...very useful!
..oh and welcome to the Vine!!!!