Tomato blight

It's here - the first signs of blight. Trying to look up what to do. Does it help if I remove every infected plant, or leaves, or part of plants? Does it help if I pick unaffected tomatoes and let them ripen indoors?
How red do they have to be to fully ripen indoors - I only want to use them ripe, I don't make chutney or things like that.
They talk about early and late blight on the internet. Does it matter?
Thanks a lot! Annemieke.

 

I have been wondering the same. My toms are still very much green - I wonder if they can be picked and brought in to ripen. Was going to pull up some pots today but its raining. :(

 

The thing is, from past experience I have the feeling that pulling up infected plants etc. is a waste of time, and I haven't got much time right now ....

 

They have to get to the slightly translucent stage to ripen off the plant, but I've had entire crops turn to mush trying to ripen them indoors once the blight had taken hold.

One's that I sprayed in the greenhouse as soon as it struck are still hanging on.

 

If you have blight, as a stop gap, cut off all leaves, spray with copper and hope for dry weather.
If the fruits start going black its probably gone too far.

 

Noticed that my outdoor Toms had blight this morning at the allotment. The fruits weren`t big enough to keep so the whole plants were cut up and brought home to go in the bin.

 

I've also wasted my time picking seemingly unaffected green tomatoes thinking they would ripen blight free, only to quickly lose the lot as blight appeared in all of them. Now I'd only bother with what I could use for fried green tomatoes for several days.

 

Oh dear - just went to the trouble of bringing in the green ones and putting them in boxes in a dark place to ripen ... waste of time, probably!

 

Anne, try washing them.

 

There are rather a lot - does it help? Just in cold water?

 

When it comes down to it, it is up to you.

 

I've just got another Blightwatch email for a full smith period and I've got a gut feeling they might be right this time, so I'll cut all the top growth off a bit later on, can't be much more growing to be lost.