Anyone got blight on their toms or spuds?

[womble]

A question for the experts: is it ok to remove unripe fruit from affected plants, if the fruit themselves are not yet affected, and try to ripen them on the windowsill, or will they be incubating blight, and will they then become affected by blight before they ripen? If so, I'll make them into green tomato chutney, but if not, I'll try to ripen them.

I think everyone's got it about sorted, but can I just reiterate the advice to check the fruit regularly, every day is needed.
If you see even a tiny bit of blight looking bit, dump it.

Just a thought that's come into my head, but maybe washing them before bringing them in might help. It may wash any spores off. Any others thoughts about that?

[Tomatoking]

Being a newbie to growing toms in gh I expected a high yield but was so disappointed I sort of gave them up. I continued the feed and water but am wondering if this is blight or a deficiency. The tomatoes have struggled to ripen and now have a lustre gold appearance.

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Hi Brengirl

Yes your plants are showing signs of deficiency. But the the back leaves dead so the whole plant is drying, hence the other leaves showing signs of deficiencies, like Mal has said.
The problem is to work out why, could be a root problem cause by over or under watering, or too strong a feed at the roots, or even disease.
Have you a picture of the whole plant, showing where and how it was g.rown

What did you grow them in and how ofen did you feed and water them. If we could that out, it would help for next year.

Mr TK

[BUFFS]

i had blight for the first time this year,had to lift all the tubs of tatties 3rd week of july,so only got about 1/4 of usual tattie crop,said some very old anglo saxon words too...

[binley100]

Been to check on my toms at the lottie . So far so good and have removed leaves etc to help ripening and air flow. The bush toms are very difficult to do. I had lost all my toms to blight before the end of july last year, so have fingers crossed.

[StephenH]

Thanks for the advice, all. The Bordeaux mixture seems to have stopped it in its tracks for now, but I'm watching the plants carefully. Some of the 'Purple Ukraine' are definitely changing colour, and the other varieties have turned a lighter shade of green, which is, I hope, the first stage of ripening, so I may get ripe fruit yet before the blight spoils them.

[POTBOY]

one of my outdoor cordons showed signs blight so i got rid of it, came back from 4 days away and my whole crop of bush and cordons had been hit, thankfully i rescued enough green toms of different shapes and sizes to make my famous "every cloud" chutney (green tomato amongst other things) didnt get any blight last year so was maybe a bit cocky this year. oh well, try again next year!

[gillian62]

Just been down to my allotment and all my tomatoes have been struck with blight!! I can't believe it, they were just needing to turn red before I could start eating them. So have spent a busy afternoon stripping their beds. Am I ok to grow another crop straight on their beds, I know not to put anything of same family, eg potatoes.

Thank you,
Gillian

[Nicos]

Yup toms...started about a week ago- on all my toms now.
Have just picked all unaffected red and green toms...and need to set to with freezing/preserving.
Will rip up and burn the plants tomorrow.

Fortunately all spuds were dug up and stored a few days ago- with no signs of blight.

fingers crossed!

frustrating ain't it???

[Suky]

Lord, I feel so grateful! No blight here nor over last few years either. I must ask at the horti club wether anyone local has it.
Have had a bit of botrytis but nothing too bad. Did have a frost last night though- BU**ER!

[SlugLobber]

Thought I saw signs of it for the first time, last week. Drastically trimmed affected plants and made lots of chutney the same day! All looks ok again, now.

[Two_Sheds]

wild (ie self-sown) tomatoes all had blight today, so ripped them up

[selfraising]

Nothing here thank goodness!