Yet another blight question, sorry.
I've got two hanging baskets of gartenperle, outdoors, loaded with flowers and fruit, first ones just starting to ripen.
For the last four weeks some of the leaves have slowly turned yellow, then brown, dried up and died. I've been picking the bad leaves off every few days. If I miss a leaf, the side stem eventually turns a sickly brown too, but it doesn't seem to spread to the main stems.
The plants are still putting out loads of new shoots and the fruit is all developing well.
I've got cordon toms growing below - gardener's delight, sugold, tigerella - all healthy dark green with no sign of this lergy.
At first I thought it was blight, but it's moving so slowly through the plants. As I understand it blight wipes whole plants out in days?
Can anyone suggest what's wrong with the basket toms? Does blight ever move this slowly?
I have two baskets of Whippersnapper similarly affected... re read that, I had two I binned the worst one. The drier weather we have had may be slowing down the spread but some varieties seem much more resistant than others..
:-\
So you think it is blight then? I'd half convinced myself it wasn't. :'(
That looks like blight to me pye. I think it is early blight whish does move quite slowly, if plants do get the full blown version they are mush within days.
Saddad, I have 6 Whippersnapper plants from seeds you sent me & they are all quite badly affected - had a few lovely toms off them though :)
It's slowly working upwards on some of my cordons as well - very depressing - plants now look like triffids as I remove every infected leaf, branch and tomato.
As already mentioned don't think it can be full on blight because they are surviving too well but still looks like green tomatoes are going to be on the menu and ripe ones a rarety :'(
On the plus side, the two gartenperle are a little way away and so far seem unscathed.
Cor, that looks healthy. Wish mine looked like that.
Looks like blight to me, too.
But the blight this year is very odd. (Two months early, for a start!!) I've lost quite a few plants, but most of those left have blight lower down (on the main stems, as well as the leaves) but healthy top growth further up. I've never known plants recover from blight before!
I've also got apparently healthy top growth on the affected cordons - perhaps it is something other than early blight
Looks more like a deficiency of some sort to me.
The leaves have gone yellow before they go brown at the tips.Seems to me like they are just dying due to the lack of something.
If it is blight,it will attack the formed tomatoes very quickly.
Is it blight when you have a brown patch on the green tomatoes? or is it when we had that warm weather then the cold after Easter?