Blight on my greenhouse toms - is it curtains for them?

[Babru]

Found one then another tomato plant with brown blighty-looking stems this morning. RHS website confirmed blight. Have cut out one plant above the affected stem and removed the other completely.

Q - will all my tomatoes now succumb?

[Scarlet]

Are you sure it's blight and not botrytis?
If it is blight I would remove the whole tomato plant...but I've never once had blight in a GH. So go have another look first can you post a pic?

[Babru]

I've never managed to post a photo, plus I have put the plants in the compost bin. However it looks just like the photo of the brown stem on here
https://www.thespruce.com/early-blig...plants-1402973

Maybe not as immediately serious I hope, if it's early blight. I've no idea really!

[greenishfing]

I would not put blighted plants in the compost bin. I would burn them or bag them and take them to the tip. I can't remember why now but I got blight a few years ago and didn't put them in the compost.

[veggiechicken]

I've had a few plants with brown patches on stems - usually where there's been some stem damage. Either a snapped side shoot, or rubbing against a support. I either cut them down to below the damage or chuck the plant out as it has only happened on past-their-best plants.

[Can the Man]

Don’t put the plants on compost if you think it’s blight

[Scarlet]

I wouldn't compost the either....but even without a photo I reckon you have botrytis.

Cut out the bad bits and bun them. Then chop off all the lower leaves and prune ruthlessly leaving just the toms that are large and you hope to ripen and top leaves .

[ameno]

Blight is perfectly safe to compost.
Blight spores cannot survive for long without a host, and the fungal body itself also cannot survive without a host, and unlike certain fungal diseases, like white rot, it produces no resilient resting bodies. The blight will be completely dead before Christmas.

The only blight-related material you should never compost are tubers from blighted potato plants, as these may start growing again next spring, produce a blighted plant (as the blight survived the winter on the living tissue of the potato tuber), and then spread to other plants.

The same goes for powdery mildew, too. Perfectly safe to compost, for the same reasons.

[Nicos]

Use the tomatoes asap. If you leave them to ripen on the windowsill they are more than likely to get blight spots and taste funny.
Cooked without marks they will be fine.

[Babru]

Thank you all, I shall follow your advice. Need to get out there this morning....frightened what I may find . Wish me luck!

[bario1]

I've never managed to post a photo

Can you tell us why? I'm sure we can solve that.

[Babru]

When I try to add a photo from my saved album on the ipad, it thinks about it for ages and just says it has failed. It is annoying, I'd like to join in with lovely photos of dahlias etc. I will ask my OH who will roll his eyes, but can maybe tell me where I'm going wrong.

On a positive note, my tomatoes all look fine today. Whatever attacked the stems (and very nasty it looked too) seems to have spread no further. I have removed some leaves to try to improve airflow between the plants, perhaps this may help.

[Can the Man]

When I try to add a photo from my saved album on the ipad, it thinks about it for ages and just says it has failed. It is annoying, I'd like to join in with lovely photos of dahlias etc. I will ask my OH who will roll his eyes, but can maybe tell me where I'm going wrong.

On a positive note, my tomatoes all look fine today. Whatever attacked the stems (and very nasty it looked too) seems to have spread no further. I have removed some leaves to try to improve airflow between the plants, perhaps this may help.

Babur, are you using your photos for the photos and trying to upload from a tablet like an iPad?, if so then I think the file size is your problem, you need to save you photo in a smaller resolution, the other option is to set up a drop box account and use the html address for posting so when someone click the link your photo will open in a separate page. I hope this helps.

[bario1]

Yes, the photos are probably too large (file size, not picture size).

I use a free app called 'image size'

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/image-...0final%20image.

It's very easy to use!