Tomato Growing Thread 2012

Nipped mine on Tuesday gone, disapointing at four trusses, and all green, along with each truss alternate pea size or flower dropped off :-(

Jack McH

 

This disease has now gone right through a patch of over 2 dozen 'heirloom' tomato plants that I was rather hoping to save seeds from. The lot are coming up and being burnt this morning as it's progressing rapidly and killing the plants as it goes right through the stem an the 'healthy' bits above then collapse. Pic taken yesterday afternoon:



Unlike blight it starts on the stem and there's no sign of it on the leaves, will spread to leaf stems if left and I suppose it would carry on into leaves if the plant wasn't disposed of.

There's no sign of any mould as I would expect with Botrytis (grey mould) and the patches start as black and dry to grey with no sign of furriness. I expect Botrytis to look like this:





P.S. I didn't bother growing Ferline as blight totally destroyed them last year.

 

I looked at botrytis when you first mentioned it Scrunge, only thing I can find similar, but like you say, not that. Bit of a mystery.

 

Theres a whole bucket of diseases to choose from here.

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/DiagnosticKeys/TomWlt/TomWiltKey.html

 

Makes me think about giving up growing tomatoes seeing that lot.

Looks like bacterial stem rot. I've never had that before (and neither have my tomatoes).

 

I got thrips once.

I guess this is down to the silly weather we've had.

 

Hiya John.

Have you tried the Rosada yet? I just had some roasted in olive oil with onions, mushrooms, garlic and a few dried herbs. What can I say? SO good!

 

Tomatoes have been disappointing for most of us this year Jack. Too damp and little heat and sunlight. If it's any help I stripped most of the leaves off mine two weeks ago and it's helped them to ripen with more sun (when we get it) getting through. I do this every year, but normally later than this. The further north we live the less sun we get.

 

Mine [same varieties as I always grow] are all tasteless - lack of Sun for sure.

 

Got me salivating, you rotter

 

Got our first picking of 'big ones' - Sparta and Moneymaker as opposed to mini cherries this week and they actually tasted great. Very,very slow to ripen but worth the wait and a great change from bland supermarket toms.

 

Are yours being grown outside?

 

What have I told you about women of 'ill repute'?!