Bordeaux Mixture cures Botrytis (grey mould) on Tomatoes

Good tip. Did you spray your Cues at the same time? I don't seem to have trouble with mould on my Toms, but the Cues (and Courgettes tend to get it - although never enough that I worry about it unduly towards the end of the season - still getting far more blinking Cues that I know what to do with!)

My problem, this time of the year, is the white fly which have been under control (Marigolds and yellow-sticky-cards) until about last week of August. My husbandry tails off this time of the year, so Tomatoes are sprouting out of the vents, and no side shoots have been removed for quite a while ...

The leaves are fairly blackened - with the secretions from the white fly I presume? and the fruit has to be washed.

I've never thought it worth spraying Whitefly - well, not since I've managed to control it up until End August - as it takes numerous repeat sprayings to get rid of them.

Any thoughts welcome on that one (sorry John, I shouldn't be hijacking your thread)

P.S. Are the Whitefly surviving from year to year? or am I getting re-infested from elsewhere?

 

Thanks for that John,. I also have sprayed my outside toms twice and as you know they are looking good and still producing tons. Looks like another session with the drier is called for tomorrow we have so many and the Armish are getting bigger by the day. A great year for toms after last years blight hit failure.

 

"I have the same thing on my tomato fruit, lots of white speckle"

I'm getting that - from condensation dripping on the fruit at this time of the year I assume?

Dunno if yours is different, I'll take a picture when I trog up to the greenhouse a bit later.

 

Here are my spots - which I think are water spots from condensation falling on the fruit? (Ignoring the severe case of Flash-Burn!!)

 

I think its called ghost spot, have a look here.
http://www.negreenhouseupdate.info/index.php/diseases/319-greenhouse-tomato-botrytis-ghost-spot

 

Sure do John, and it takes some shifting from under the stalks on the big Armish ! The last spray was almost three weeks ago as well, so its got staying power.

 

"have a look here."

Pete you spoilsport, I was just about to open a road-side stall! But it says:

"This spotting may adversely affect market quality."

:D

I can't say I'm bothered, its the end of the season, the fruit are ripening well enough, and taste OK

... but I shouldn't have let my greenhouse hygiene slip ... "mens sana in corpore sano" or whatever drivel we were taught at school :( ...

... and I've found red spider in the other greenhouse tonight :( That I am annoyed about. I thought a couple of Fuchsias in there, that I didn't really care about, looked a bit brown at the tip, and assumed I'd neglected them racing in and out of the greenhouse firing water at them haphazardly from the watering can :( The silly thing is we had really bad red spider in the conservatory last Autumn, about this time, and I should have reacted better to the prolonged end-of-season warm dry spell we've had and anticipated it. Bother!

Last season I was adamant I would use a biological control, but by the time the week had passed before the good bugs arrived the Red Spider had taken such a hold that it had killed all the plants that had been effected :(

I've sprayed with some very old, and probably banned :( spray cans I had lying around with a view to doing a better job tomorrow in daylight with a more modern chemical.

The only edibles in there are my tiny, bow-your-head-off chillies, and I don't want to lose them.

What's going to best to spray the blighters with?

 

"I'm not sure what they are Kristen, do they wash off?"

Nope :(

"for a few millisecs I thought it was sun spots"

They do look a bit like that don't they?