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    I haven't decided on a fertilizer to use this year but it's my first year in this greenhouse so sort of making it up as I go along :)
     
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      Have just had a quick count up and running at 14 plants which is ample as I'm the only one eating them :biggrin:
      A mix of big, salad and cherry types
       
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        Some leafs looks like that now? I have trimmed then off and put them in the bin
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          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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          It doesn't look good, could it be early blight?
          Must admit that on googling it it doesn't look like it.
           
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            Och man I hope not, I have a lot of black spots on the actually stem as well and on the flowers. At this stage is it too late? Shall I trimm off every affected leaf? See attached photos
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              I don't suppose you've been painting with creocote near them by any chance? I've splashed leaves with it before and it looks just like that
               
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                The shots of the stems do look a little blighted :frown:
                 
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                  That's awfull damn... So I should dispose the plants and hope rest will survive?
                   
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                    Can you isolate the infected ones?
                    Just to see how it goes.
                     
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                      It doesn't look good. I'd say late blight now as it's spreading so fast, but it's not 'late' and the weather has been too dry, around here it has. Has it been wet and humid there @LukeMB ?

                      You're doing the right thing trimming off . Isolate if you can. Get a copper spray, I used Vitax Copper Mixture a few weeks ago on mine as they had a white fungal attack, they had been crammed too close together under growlamps. Mine recovered quickly after removing the affected leaves. Although blight is a more aggressive fungi.
                       
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                        Possibly i will check after work
                         
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                          Hi I haven't watered since last Tuesday ... and low and behold they have all started to produce a tiny flower truss .. so that shocked them lol
                           
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                            I live in UK. It was some rainy days yes. I will try to isolate them today, trim all the leafs off and spray with copper, thanks for advices I will try to keep some plants alive. Such a shame, I am devasted I have put so much work into it
                             
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                              Just a quick update guys. Not sure what is bothering my plants, could be early blight, but it did not look like, not sure. Anyways I trimmed a lot of suspicious leafs, possibly over did this, but wanted to be sure! Some plants looking great, some looks a bit rough, but In general it's OK I hope whatever it was panic over. I will take some photos tommorow.

                              Now a silly question about fertilising as I am really new to this. My liquid fertilizer says 60 ml per gallon of water. I have 10 plants in the pots. Do I need to appply 60 ml mixed in gallon water for each plant? So it would be 600 ml in total for all plants.
                               
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                              Also I learned a trick that apparently works wonders. What you need to do is insert copper wire uncoated in the tomato stem then twist it a bit around stem and fish around 1m upwards. Copper will react with liquids in the plant and make it much stronger to fungus. Apparently it works wonders, trying it this week. Also I saw video o yt where guy completely eradicated late blight with attached regime in the photo. Maybe it could be useful to somebody
                               

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