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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: sunloving on July 17, 2012, 08:23:41

Title: mildew vs blight
Post by: sunloving on July 17, 2012, 08:23:41
Every year in the greenhouse around this time i begin to get rotting on tomato leaves. Its usually brown triangles edged with yellow that spread in water drops. It rarely infects the stem this early and i can usually cope with it by removing each infected leaf.

Later on mid aug and beyond i get proper stem dark patches and rapid deterioration of the plants inc speckles on the fruit. Which i assume is blight

Im not sure if this is mildew early then blight or blight all along.
What do you guys think.

x sunloving
Title: Re: mildew vs blight
Post by: Jayb on July 17, 2012, 08:45:55
Yes sounds like mildew followed by blight later on for a double whammy!

But there is a lot of blight about earlier this year, I'm trying to battle both in the polytunnel and greenhouse at the moment  :'(
Title: Re: mildew vs blight
Post by: sunloving on July 18, 2012, 07:50:51
Blight sucks, sorry you've got it so early. and fingers crossed for some fast ripening .
good luck
x sunloving