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  • #1

    Tomato disease

    Hi everyone.

    I'm new to the forum - and to gardening, started growing a few veggies this year on the patio.
    One of my tomatoes is clearly affected by something, I've looked up the common diseases but can't seem to identify it.

    Anybody able to help?

    Thank you!
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    I would hazard a guess at blight. Without knowing your location, it has been early and prolific this year. Picture three shows curled and puckered leaves due to aphids. How long have brown patches been there? Blight takes over rapidly once it takes hold and there isn't really an effective cure. What variety are they? I'm curious as they have very shiny leaves!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by WendyC View Post
      I would hazard a guess at blight. Without knowing your location, it has been early and prolific this year. Picture three shows curled and puckered leaves due to aphids. How long have brown patches been there? Blight takes over rapidly once it takes hold and there isn't really an effective cure. What variety are they? I'm curious as they have very shiny leaves!
      I'm in London and it is a Garden Pearl.
      I think I saw the first signs some 3 weeks ago. It didn't develop very fast. I've isolated it from the others and have sprayed all of them with low concentration soap water, garlic water or milk and iodine water every now and them - as prevention for various pests/diseases.
      I have 3 other Garden Pearls as well as many other varieties, which are all doing fine, with flowers and set trusses.
      This one seems to have slowed its development - it has a few trusses, but they don't seem to develop as fast as the others - no open flowers and obviously, no set fruit.
      The affected areas are a couple of low branches, but also a few near the growing tops as well (the curled and puckered ones).

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      • #4
        they are really shiny leaves! It does like a lot like blight unfortunately, but as wendy says the takeover if it is blight is rapid, and will turn the stems brown fairly quickly. If they've been like that a while it may be something else.

        Try and remove all the diseased leaves (and make sure there is sufficient air flow) to try and stop it spreading further

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        • #5
          Originally posted by vixylix View Post
          Try and remove all the diseased leaves (and make sure there is sufficient air flow) to try and stop it spreading further

          I was going to do just that, but wanted to take some photos and ask your opinion first.
          Thanks for the answers, for the moment I think it's all I can do.

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          • #6
            Hi and welcome to the Vine.
            Just to say that the shininess of the leaves is probably because of the sprays you've used. I think milk is used to shine the leaves of houseplants - or maybe the soap has made them squeaky clean
            As the others have said, remove the affected leaves and let us know what happens please.

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            • #7
              Welcome. You will always get help here and everyone is friendly and fun. With regard to the leaves I agree I would remove the leaves and see what happens. It is good you were able to move it away from the others. With regard to the aphids try planting French Marigolds near the tomatoes because so far I have found that helpful but will not say anymore as I will jinks it!
              Have fun growing.

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