Something wrong with tomato's

[btrowe1]

I went away for vacation and came home to find my tomato plants looking like they are dying.

I pulled off some of the dying branches, Upon doing that I started to notice that my tomato's looked like the following picture, All of the tomato"s are beginning to go this route. I have noted that the splotches are not on the bottom of the fruit all are where the pictures show.

Bottom left tomatoes are mortgage lifters,top are beef steaks,bottom right are the super sauce. Most of the tomato's. have stopped growing. We did have a rather cool night a week or so ago in the mid 30s, wondering if this is due to that.

I have pulled off the tomato's that were beginning to turn and placed them inside, hopefully they turn.I also pulled out the worst looking plants and threw them into the garbage, All of the tomato's on those plants had the splotches.They were the beef steaks, There were some big tomato's on them.

Not sure what's happening.

[rainbowgardener]

with the dark spots on the stem end of tomatoes and the leaves dying, it could be late blight.

Check out this thread (scroll down a bit on the page)

https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... 15&t=54501

to see pictures of what early and late blight look like to help ID if that is what you have going on.

[btrowe1]

rainbow,
Those pictures you posted are just how my some of my plants look. Now the question is do I pull all or just the infected ones. The tomato"s that aren't affected are they still good to eat?? Thank you,

I guess next years bed will need to be totally redone.. and some sort of spray located to use on the plants, hopefully this isn't a 5 year cycle sort of thing..

[rainbowgardener]

The tomatoes that aren't affected are still good to eat.

All you can do for any of the blighted plants is pull them and put them in a bag in the trash (NOT in your compost pile). If you have plants that aren't (yet) showing any signs, you can try saving them. Prune excess leaves/ branches to increase air circulation and then spray the whole plant with fungicide. Organic options include potassium bicarbonate solution, sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) solution (T. baking soda + few drops liquid soap + few drops veggie oil in a gallon of water), 3% hydrogen peroxide straight from the bottle. Be sure to spray all the undersides of the leaves. Repeat once a week.

Be sure to plant your tomatoes in a different bed next year. As soon as you plant them, mulch heavily to make a barrier, to help prevent transmission of disease from soil to plant.

[imafan26]

It looks like bacterial spot to me. Spots would also appear on the leaves and cause leaf to drop exposing the fruit more to the sun so they sunburn. The tomatoes are spotted and late blight usually has large areas of necrotic rot rather than spots. The leaf symptoms of the diseases are easier to tell apart since one is a fungus and the other bacterial.

https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/ ... lspot.aspx

https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/ ... lspot.aspx

Whether it is Xanthamonas or Phythoptora it doesn't matter, they are both bad news. Either way control is similar. Good sanitation and water management. Plant resistant cultivars and using clean seeds, preventive sprays, air circulation, and try to rotate plants when problems do occur.

[btrowe1]

I think it"s the blight, the link that rainbow gave me above, my plants look (looked) exactly like those pictures. going to do some MAJOR pruning and extracting tomorrow afternoon and major spraying to see if I can save whats left.

What really stinks is I had some BIG beef steaks coming on.. Oh well such is gardening..live and learn