Blight again. Can I save the fruit?

[ameno]

I had a false alarm today.
A fruit that had just started changing from green had a big brown patch on it.
I was about to rip the plant out when I checked the fruit. The brown patch mostly fell off.
It turned out that a bird had fly-tipped on the fruit without getting any on the leaves above.

Even if it had been blight, ripping the entire plant out just because of one infected fruit seems rather an overreaction.
My greenhouse tomatoes first showed signs of infection over a month ago, but they are still plodding along. You just remove the infected leaves and fruit as they appear.

[Plot70]

I usually find that very few green fruits ripen so it would have been out and all green fruit off and into the pot.
I have a couple of trusses that are just a couple of fruits off ready to come home as vines.
Getting the plants started was almost impossible this spring. I just wove the stems through builders fence panels with climbing beans either side of them. There is a few signs of minor frost damage on the upper leaves and one or two lower leaves are going yellow.
I have only got two plants left after the bad start but with the spacing they have got plenty of fresh air.

[Penellype]

This is the situation after 1 week.



There have been no more brown fruit and I am beginning to be hopeful that I have beaten the blight. There are fewer green fruit on the tray because some have been used to make a small amount of soup. As they start to ripen I am moving them to the front right corner of the tray and then into the dish at the side. None have been ripe enough to eat yet but they are getting there.

This was definitely blight and this variety (Sungold) is not resistant. The other plants that were nearby had not developed blight as of yesterday, but they are resistant varieties. I will continue to update this thread as things progress.

[Penellype]

No further fruit have gone brown, and several are now ripe enough to eat. I think the answer to the question is therefore yes, you can save the fruit, but some of it might go brown and be inedible. If you catch it early enough most of the fruit seems to be ok.

Note - this was definitely blight, but the patches on the stems were limited to one side of the stem. If the whole diameter of the stem is affected I would expect a worse outcome.

[Nicos]

Thanks for the update Pen. Well worth knowing.
Very pleased yoy’ve not lost them all !

[Penellype]

Almost a month after picking, most of the fruit are turning orange:



Time to make some soup out of the ripest ones

I have already eaten some of them.

[Nicos]

Those look smashing Pen!

[Marb67]

Almost a month after picking, most of the fruit are turning orange:



Time to make some soup out of the ripest ones

I have already eaten some of them.

Amazing ! Looks like a piece of Art.