Tomato blight pictures

Theres seems to be a few of our friends rightfully worried about tomato blight at this time of the year.
So, To help identification of this virus I am posting a few pictures from my garden I took last year.
I lost loads of plants and fruit due the blight.
Hope the following will assist those that need the knowledge
Robert




http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k473/capney
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Mine look like that this year!

 

Ditto. My Golden Sunrise were just about to ripen too ! This blight....drives you nuts eh ?

 

Nice one Robert for posting these clear pics. I have blight too in my cherry toms, I've just cut them back to the roots an discarded everything.

I managed to save a few ripe toms that appear unaffected and want to save the seed from these...would that be okay to do?

Also...can I reuse the soil they where grown in and compost the roots too?

Many thanks..

Steve...

Suggestion - This topic could be temporarily stickied so others can see it straight away as we are in blight season.

 

Very clear pics there Capney (shudder). I grew T&M's "blight resistant duo" Ferline and Legend this year. I've grown Ferline before, and I do think they are a bit resistant, but I've still sprayed them anyway. So far so good and I've got a few starting to turn orange.. Fingers crossed.

 

"can I reuse the soil they where grown in and compost the roots too?"

I change the soil in my greenhouse every year regardless.

For outdoor Veg crops I rotate on a 4 year basis.

I don't grow any crop successively on the same soil (except a few catch crops like Lettuce)

 

Good response from everone on this worrying subject.
I agree that it would be a good idea to make this thread stickie for awhile so we can all combine our knowledge and prevent what could be a drastic year for our tomatoes.
Mine where sprayed a week ago with copper solution and I inspect them all twice a day. I know how quickly this nasty hits and can destroy your whole crop in a couple of days!
Last year I salvaged loads on green ones and spread them out in the conservatory but the bug was in them and most of them had to go
robert

 

I dug up all my pots this morning and pulled all the tomatoes. I didn't check yesterday as I didn't feel like it but this morning, a couple of pot plants seemed to be mush, and the others were quite marked. I didn't want to risk leaving anything in the ground, though the info said leave 10 days before digging up. Why is this? To stop the spores contaminating the veg? Maybe I took a big chance. The spuds are drying in the sun today. Guess I'll have to use them quick. Any thoughts? I think I will have bordeaux mix in next year, ready. At least the toms near the house seem okay.

 

It was the plant as well as the seed potato, so I assumed it was blight damage. I'm keeping an eye on the pots.

 

"I didn't want to risk leaving anything in the ground, though the info said leave 10 days before digging up. Why is this? To stop the spores contaminating the veg?"

Yes, I think that's the idea. Remove the foliage, give any spores time to "die", then when you lift the pots less chance of transferring spores to tubers.