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aquilegia
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blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 11:52:04 »
I've had to remove and destroy one of my potato plants and have pinched a leaf off another one because they've got blight.
In May?
It's been really dry. Although it did rain last night and it's damp today.
I'm getting an ominous feeling about the rest. :'(
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Digeroo
Hectare
Posts: 9,578
Cotswolds - Gravel - Alkaline
Re: blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 12:01:09 »
Are you sure it really is blight? There are a number of other things some on our site last year looked very much like blight but turned out to be a huge ants nest.
Suggest you post a pic. There are some great spud experts about.
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Acre
Posts: 399
Re: blight - already
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Reply #2 on:
May 27, 2010, 12:05:29 »
Unlikely, the weather hasnt been right for it. Could be scorch from the very hot weather last week or cold damage or drought from the very dry weather.
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chriscross1966
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Visionhairy
Re: blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 12:08:16 »
Some of my spuds got frost scorched a week or two ago... add the baking weather from the last weekend and I can see why folks would confuse it with blight.... but as pointed out, it just isn't warm enough at night yet or anything like humid enough....
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Le-y
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Growing children and food in Norfolk
Re: blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 12:14:47 »
some of my potatoes got scored by the frost too only a couple of plants, i panicked about blight but definately from the frost
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aquilegia
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Re: blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 16:43:12 »
Oh darn. I knew I should've posted a picture, but I was so scared of it spreading I cut the plant off and got rid of it.
But we haven't had a frost for months. It's been cold overnight, but nothing drastic. The plant was much smaller than the others planted at the same time, so I just leapt to the worst conclusion as usual!
I will keep an eye on the rest and post before I cut if there are anymore like it!
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OllieC
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Hectare
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Nairn
Re: blight - already
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Reply #6 on:
May 27, 2010, 16:47:07 »
hrumph... I got shot down in flames by someone last year for saying it was perfectly reasonable to confuse blight with other things! I still maintain that it's easily confused & agree that the conditions make it very unlikely...
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Jill
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Re: blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 17:11:48 »
I don't know where you are, Aqui, but in south east London we had a couple of nights of sub zero temperatures just a couple of weeks ago. My chillies certainly felt it. This could very well have done the damage to your tatties.
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Acre
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Re: blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 17:17:39 »
You must be not in the UK if you havent had frost for months. Temps less than 5c will damage non-hardy plants. Here in the south it went down to 2c around 2 weeks ago, all the tops of my potatoes went and 15 tomatoes I had hardening off in a mini-greenhouse died overnight.
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cornykev
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Sunny Cheshunt just outside North London
Re: blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 17:31:20 »
Its deffo not blight, If you are here in London then its very likely you would have had frosts, ??? on our sight my plot is pretty well protected and get away with light frosts but my spuds were well burnt with the frosts on the night/morning on the 11th-12th of this month. :'(
I walk to work at 5.45am and there was no signs of frost that morning but the Sun came out early that day and thats where the burnt plants come from, mine are well on the way to recovery by the way. ;D ;D ;D
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Robert_Brenchley
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Re: blight - already
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May 27, 2010, 17:46:48 »
If you only 'cut the plant off' rather than digging it up, then it'll be back!
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Tattieman
Half Acre
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Re: blight - already
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Reply #11 on:
May 27, 2010, 18:48:44 »
I had a blight warning last week for a full Smith Period.
If there is any blight about then it will only be early blight and that causes black spots on the leaf but will not cause the same damage as late blight.
I wonder if your plant has developed blackleg?
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cornykev
Hectare
Posts: 9,893
Sunny Cheshunt just outside North London
Re: blight - already
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Reply #12 on:
May 27, 2010, 19:52:03 »
Hi Tattie, I wondered where you'd been hiding. ;D ;D ;D
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BarriedaleNick
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Hectare
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Cartaxo, Portugal
Re: blight - already
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Reply #13 on:
May 27, 2010, 19:52:32 »
All my earlies got frost nipped and I am in sunny SE London. I was away and didn't know about the frosts so my first thought was Aminopyralid!!! Eeek!! Soon calmed down after talking to my fellow allotmenteers...
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powerspade
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Reply #14 on:
May 27, 2010, 22:07:46 »
The chap on the next plot to me thought he had blight well its a bit early for blight. Turned out to be frost damage
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