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    Any ideas what this could be? I tried googling it and haven't found anything.

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    The sposts are white, relatively small (2-3mm) and soft.
    One idea is that I did it by spraying nearby cucumbers with water, soap and bakig soda mixture (tomatoes strongly react to alcaline substances) because it is almost exclusively on the wind facing side (some lower trusses are ok) and nearby tomatoes (only few spots on the other side of the garden). But it doesn't make sense because I sprayed on Wednesday or Thursday last week (not sure exactly) and part of Saturday, all Sunday and most of Monday was raining. And I am almost sure this appeared yesterday, like overnight.

    Will it get darker, harder and edible or will the fruit rot?


    And, completely unrelated disaster, I have late blight on my maskotkas, even though there were no alerts on blight watch.
    Yesterday (as photographed), it was soft. Today (windy and sunny day) it is crispy. I think I will try to cut all leaves and maybe the fruit will ripen?

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    Have to wait and see on the spotty ones - certainly looks like spray drift.

    Not sure about the possible blight - might be something-else, but if it is blight the affected plants are probably a write-off.

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    • #3
      I've had blight alerts here for the past 2 days.

      The marks on your fruit look extremely familiar and are very probably hail damage. Did you have hail with the thunderstorms recently?
      A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Penellype View Post
        I've had blight alerts here for the past 2 days.
        I am not subscribed to the alert service, I just checked it afterwards. Sunday was orange, all other days green.
        This tomato is untidy bush trailing to the ground and touching soil, so I guess it could get some spores on it easily.

        Originally posted by Penellype View Post
        The marks on your fruit look extremely familiar and are very probably hail damage. Did you have hail with the thunderstorms recently?
        No, as far as I know. Also no thunderstorms here (they are very rare here), just rain and wind.

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        • #5
          Do the spots wash or rub off? Just wondering if its dried on baking soda?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
            Do the spots wash or rub off? Just wondering if its dried on baking soda?
            No, they are slightly softer than the normal green areas and slightly sunken.

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            • #7
              A quick update here.
              The spots were almost certainly a spray drift. The plants are OK and fruit is edible, just not pretty.
              Maskotka is also fine, I think it was an early blight and not late blight.

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