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Sorry Plumed but I would say it is blight, you need to remove any infected leaves & fruit & bin them. Then strip the plant of any remaining fruit & put them somewhere to ripen off but keep an eye on them as blight often shows as the fruits are ripening. The remaining plant can then be removed & binned/burned.Last edited by Bigmallly; 24-09-2016, 04:19 PM.sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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Sorry - bad news. Looks like blight to me
Cut out and bin all the affected toms and shoots. Pick any clean toms and see if they will ripen somewhere away from the plants.
Keep watch on what's left and be brutal if the blight reappears.Comment
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It's very close to my other plants and touching them too. Should I bin all of them too and try and save the toms? Any tips for ripening off the plant?Comment
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I ripen toms indoors, on the windowsill would do. If they're blighted it will show up as brown patches in a couple of days.
Are your plants in a GH or outside?Comment
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Shoe box / drawer with a ripe banana can speed up the ripening - though as has already been said you'll need to keep a close / regular eye on them for brown marks developing.
Personally I'd be inclined to harvest all that is big enough from you other plants too - especially if they are very close to the infected plant. Its very likely that the spores have spread to them. I'd then store them somewhere other than the toms that have come from the infected plant to increase your chances with them. Fingers crossed whatever you do.sigpic
1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.Comment
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Agree with all of the above. The brown patches on the fruit in the 2nd picture are absolutely typical of blight and that is what will happen to any infected ones that you try to ripen indoors. I would pick any that are big enough to be likely to ripen on the neighbouring plants, and certainly any that are changing colour. Spread them out on a piece of newspaper so that they are not touching each other if possible. It doesn't have to be brightly lit - any warm place will do. Check them several times a day and remove any that start to show brown or that slightly crinkly appearance of the fruit in that 2nd picture.
I don't hold out much hope for them to be frank, but its worth a try.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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Definitely Blight.
If you put the fruit to ripen, the chances are that what currently appears OK will develop blight.
I think that blight is not harmful to humans so I guess you could make green tomato chutney out of whatever is currently not affected but I've just binned all of mine, the only tomatoes not affected are Crimson Crush and Mountain Magic.Comment
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I was growing toms outdoors once and they were affected by blight. Some tomatoes still ripened unaffected, I did nothing due to lack of time but a lot were destroyed.
If you have some plants unaffected or not very, you could do as they say above with ones like in the picture (take off unaffected, reasonably sized fruit and bin the rest of plant). Any other plants, remove a lot of the lower leaves and make sure there is plenty of room round them for air to flow, if necessary 'thining' them out.
Blight can happen when the temperature is above 10C and humidity >90% for 11 hours (called a Smith Period), so reducing the foliage and dealing with any weeds can help to reduce the humidity.Comment
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Tomato blight
After tomato blight was confirmed ive taken all the fruits off my 4 plants. Let's hope most of them ripen!!Comment
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Good luck! if you use them now you won't have to worry ...green tomato chutney is delicious
Last edited by Scarlet; 28-09-2016, 08:36 PM.Comment
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Good luck. Keep a close eye on them for the first few days and remove anything that shows signs of turning brown.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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Plumed - I've merged your threads so that we can follow the "story" and see what happens. It helps others with the same problem.
Good luck with the tomatoes.Comment
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Good Luck, just keep an eye on the stalk area, that's where blight tend to show its face:
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