Can this be blight already?

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  1. waiting for the weather

    waiting for the weather Gardener

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    So yesterday we popped to the garden center to buy a couple of things and ended up coming out laden down with some brilliant tomato plants we didn't mean to buy.

    I was just potting them up in the greenhouse when I noticed the stem on one of them has gone a bit grey. Could it be blight already? It's a suttons grafted tomato and only about a foot tall. I took it out of the greenhouse as soon as I noticed the grey patch, and it's now sitting outside in a pot all on its own.

    What do you think? Should I cut the grey bit of the growing shoot off to be on the safe side and let a side shoot take over?
     

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  2. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    It does look a bit iffy.
    I'd cut it off, a young plant like that shouldn't be diseased already.
     
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    I don't think it will be blight at this stage of the season, it looks more like Botrytis. You've done the right thing isolating it.
     
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