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What's wrong with my tomatoes?!

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Midas
Midas Posts: 596 Forumite
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edited 28 July 2016 at 1:21PM in Gardening
Hello everyone

I currently have three tomato plants growing outdoors, and one of them has started to look rather unhappy. It has quite a lot of fruit on but some of them have, over the past few days, started to look rather unhappy - with brownish, wrinkly skins.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for looking!

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Midas.

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  • Fruittea
    Fruittea Posts: 956 Forumite
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    Hi Midas I think I can see some damage to the stem as well. If so it might be Tobacco Mosaic virus. Not good if it is. Here's a link to the RHS site which might help you.
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=250
  • madjackslam
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    I'd suggest it might be blight. Are the foliage and stems affected as well? Most of the foliage looks OK from the pictures.
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    madjackslam Posts: 280 Forumite
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    Actually, this recent tweet from the RHS looks spot on for you, I'm afraid - https://twitter.com/The_RHS/status/758631857172774912
  • firebird082
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    Looks similar to ours - we've had 1 tomato plant of about 12 in the greenhouse (more hole than glass...) affected so far - pulled it out and disposed of it assuming it was blight, but I think the rest might be in the early stages. Just hoping we can salvage some of the tomatoes really! :(
  • Midas
    Midas Posts: 596 Forumite
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    Thanks all for the replies. Is it worth spraying for blight, with an anti-fungal spray?
    Midas.
  • Midas
    Midas Posts: 596 Forumite
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    madjackslam wrote: »
    I'd suggest it might be blight. Are the foliage and stems affected as well? Most of the foliage looks OK from the pictures.

    I had previously removed some dodgy looking foliage last week. Here are a couple of examples
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    Midas.
  • Farway
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    Midas wrote: »
    Thanks all for the replies. Is it worth spraying for blight, with an anti-fungal spray?

    No, none available to the home gardener work these days.

    Those that did have long since been withdrawn from sale to us plebs due to environmental contamination problems
    Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens
  • Arthog
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    On our local radio gardening programme last week, there was a 'history lesson' about people in the past using diluted milk sprayed on to tomato plants, to deal with Blight, which used to work.
    Isn't that interesting! Of course we are not allowed to mention it nowadays as it is not a permitted substance etc.
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