Do my tomatoes have blight or some kinda deficiency?

[Yapooza]

Hi there, my tomatoes have been green for a long long time, and just when they started to turn ripe they started dying
The leaves are getting dried and smelly and the plant seems to be rotting away.
Does anyone know what this could be?
Here are some pics for you green thumbed wizards to look at.

this one I think is slug damage.
https://www.andyorbit.com/gardenpics/toms1.JPG

and these are the horrible satanic disease killing my darling plants!
https://www.andyorbit.com/gardenpics/toms2.JPG
https://www.andyorbit.com/gardenpics/toms3.JPG

any help would be very much appreciated,
Thank you
Andy

[The Helpful Gardener]

I was thinking [url=https://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/dg1168.html]tobacco-tomato mosaic virus[/url] but I didn't see the leaf deformation that goes with this, although the mottled coloring fits...

If it is viral there isn't really anything you can do...

HG

[TZ -OH6]

The third picture cleary shows Late Blight, which fits with your description. It is about the only smelly disease. You can trim the plants up as best as possible and spray with Daconil or a copper fungicide to help prevent further infection, it may help prolong the die off for a while in hopes that fruit will ripen. In any case I would pick fruit as soon as you see color, and ripen them inside to prevent the fruit from being infected and rotting on the vine.


The disease is very infective from windblown spores so it is common courtesy early in the season to pull the plants and bag or bury them to protect other growers.

The disease does not survive the freezing temps of winter so you can plant in the same place next year.

[Yapooza]

Helpful Gardener : I checked that link out and while the symptoms look very similar, I don't think it can be the Mosaic virus as that seems to very rarely kill the plant, just stunt its growth. My Plant is most defiantly dying. I can hear its silent screams even now. Ps: thats a very nice lotus in your avatar.

TZ -OH6 : Interestingly enough when my plants first got this they were very young, I had been away too long and I thought they had just shrivelled up in the sun without enough water.. They were so bad I just left them. A few weeks later I cut back all the dead growth leaving only stumps protruding from the growbags. To my surprise they bounced back and grew much more vigorously then any of my other tomatos. They really shot up and looked to take over the world when this smelly disease came upon them. I will cut back the dead vegetation. I was previously worried that if I did that the plant would put its energies into regrowing leave and stem and not devote enough attention to ripening the fruit. But I shall do as you suggest now.

Thank you both for your wisdom

[garden5]

This may help you out some: [url=https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/]Tomato Problem Solver[/url]