I am also nursing my tomatoes along - plants are still fairly healthy despite about 4-5 weeks of having infected leaves/stems taken off. There are lots of new flowers - should I take these off to allow the plants to concentrate on ripening the tomatoes that I have already or just leave well alone?
Thanks for any advice
Living in hope, I'm leaving mine on. But I doubt that flowers appearing now will beat the frosts.
I'm doing the same as Tim, but to be honest I don't really have a clue. I've never met conditions like this before. Blight comes in late August, not early June! Plants never recover, but this year some have! We're all on a steep learning curve here....
I've pinched the tops out on some hoping the fruit will develop more quickly.
Thanks - I'll leave them on and see what happens. Its my first year so everything is an experiment!
A work colleague lost all his tomatoes to the blight within a week.
His leaves started going first and then all his tomatoes went black and rotten.The tigerella were the first to go and went very quickly.
So if you have removed any infected leaves and are showing no other signs you are very lucky.....or you didnt have the blight in the first place.
Whatever it was,I wish you all good luck.Mine are looking ok apart from some sorry loooking leaves.So my fingers are crossed.
Im removing any more flowers that come.I want to try and make sure some energy goes to the fruit thats already formed.
Have to say that I don't know what is affecting our leaves - but they come off at the first sign of grottiness.
Oh, & if one is going to take flowers off to divert energy, better to 'stop' the plant as Barnie says.
Hi Fork - its definately blight - I was very excited yesterday cos one of the tomatoes was turning red - but of course on closer inspection - the other half had rotted! I will be happy if I get one ok red tomato out of this - I am battling the blight.
Tim - right I will stop the plant today.