Is It Blight?

[murphy99]

I am getting very nervous now and am checking my plants every day! No sign of anything yet though, it my first year growing and I have load of plants with loads of tomatoes, I woudl be devastated if I lost them!

Is it best to spray anyway just in case and if so what should I spray them with?

[Sunflower86400]

Oh noooooooo! They are the only patches I have of 6 plants. I had every intention of spraying but haven't yet because it has continually rained, until today. Will this help if I do it today?

[Cosmo and Dibs]

That's what my stems are now looking like.........

[Sunflower86400]

Hello again.

I think I've got paranoid now. I'm out every five minutes looking at my tomato plants. Now I've spotted dark patches and (again) not sure if this is blight. Below are a few pic's.

Off the same plant.



(Dark patches on the stalks above the toms).





Off the same plant, but a different one to above. And a different growbag.





These patches are on the same branch. The area with the two sploges are close to the stem, I say stem, but it might be the stem itself as my plants are Y shaped. The pic below it is a bit further up.

Is it blight?

[SarzWix]

Black patches on the stems doesn't sound too promising

[Incy]

Post some pics quick cosmo and dibs. If it is blight you will need to take off any toms and keep your fingers crossed that they are not infected. You will also need to pull up the plants and dispose of them preferably by burning.General consensus is do NOT compost.

[Cosmo and Dibs]

I have had some patches of blight on my tom leaves, and have removed the offending branches.

However, the thick main stem on each plant has turned black/dark brown at most of the branch junctions. Could blight appear on the stems to?

If I haven't been clear then I'll take some pics for you.

[Lavenderblue]

Hi Hazel, thank you for your commiserations! I do have a few outside on the patio but during the last two years they got blight too. I got 4 ripe tomatoes out of 9 plants last year. i did actually do a bit of sobbing at that point. They look OK at the moment, we are being super careful but I fear it is just a matter of time

[Hazel at the Hill]

oh dear, it looks like I have tomato blight. Its all over the allotment so it was just a matter of time. That will be the third year running I have lost my entire crop of toms to it. At least we managed to lift our early spuds I am actually a bit upset. Never mind, I will have to save up to buy a greenhouse...and some land on which to put it. le sigh.

I'm in the same boat LB - all gone for the 3rd year running .... but I put 6 tommies in 10l buckets (99p each from wilko) at home and they are fine at the mo - if they work well, I'll not put tommies in at the Hill again - too depressing when they succumb!

Have you a little room at home/patio/courtyard where you could do some instead?

[Lavenderblue]

oh dear, it looks like I have tomato blight. Its all over the allotment so it was just a matter of time. That will be the third year running I have lost my entire crop of toms to it. At least we managed to lift our early spuds I am actually a bit upset. Never mind, I will have to save up to buy a greenhouse...and some land on which to put it. le sigh.

[taff]

LOL!!
I will...am currently making another lot too, so let's hope not eh?

[T-lady]

T-lady
I just made a batch of chutney with the green tomatoes that i salvaged this week, it all looks ok so far.
Cosmo & dibs
Have a look here, it'll give you an idea of the colour it is on a green tomato.I could show on the top, on the sie, anywhere really, and starts off as a small brownish spot. There may be dark brown/black patches on the stems, or on the truss stems, or black sooty-looking spots on the leaves.
http://jukebox.lohud.com/openphotos/...9tomato005.jpg
or
Prevention the best approach to tomato late blight - Dig in with Kym

Thanks for the answer Taff, let us know if anything untoward does develop in your chutney!

[Minerva]

Thanks SarzWix for the prompt response!

That's a shame that the peas have become diseased but at least we've been having decent harvests during the last couple of months.

[SarzWix]

I don't think peas can get blight, what yours are showing is more likely to be powdery mildew which they are a bit prone to.
Some info here; PEA POWDERY MILDEW SYMPTOMS
and you'll probably come up with lots more if you do a quick Google

[Minerva]

Can sugar snap peas also get blight?

Hello all,

Thanks for this very useful thread. I've only found references to blight on tomatoes and potatoes but my sugar snap peas are showing signs that may be blight or some other disease. There are some tomatoes plants near by that look like they have blight, could they have spread to the peas? I've attached some photos of the leaves on the pea plants.

Thank you for any insight into this!

Regards