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Tomato bligh
07/19/10 at 15:16:11

I just talked to a friend who has a farm near me. 1/3 rd of it
is given to tomatoes and peppers. She said the peppers are slow
to come up but the tomatoes are doing well. She told me of a blight
on tomatoes which started in the Carolinas. She said that most
nurseries order their tomato plants from the South. Now the blight
has spread North and is in the Penn. area. She suggested people
not buy from nurseries unless those stores buy locally produced
plants. No matter where you buy your plants she suggest that
you watch for the leaves curling up and turning brown. You should
pull them up right away and dispose of them in the trash not the
compost pile.
They are not sure where the blight originated or the cause. Last
year people thought it was the weather which caused their plants
to die off, but now they know it was a blight.
She said most farmers with a lot of acreage start their plants from seeds and end up with a lot of plants because they always start more seeds then they will need, not knowing which ones will take root. They are often happy to give them to people.

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Trelane God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 622	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #1 - 07/19/10 at 17:05:41 Interesting! We have a situation here where the tomatoes that are near "black walnut" trees have their bottoms rotted and do not mature. No "blight" sign yet but I will keep a lookout. Thanks!
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junecleaver46 Senior Member Offline I Love Prophecies Posts: 348	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #2 - 07/19/10 at 17:08:15 crap! Just my luck mine prolly have it!!
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ummie Global Moderator Offline wishing on a star Posts: 6994 Gender:	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #3 - 07/19/10 at 17:29:36 Carol, you poor thing..your stores may buy their plants from the west coast. The blight seems to be on the east coast. Think more positively in a good way.
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Reply #4 - 07/19/10 at 17:55:32

Trelane wrote on 07/19/10 at 17:05:41:

Interesting! We have a situation here where the tomatoes that are near "black walnut" trees have their bottoms rotted and do not mature.
No "blight" sign yet but I will keep a lookout. Thanks!

Trelane- I had heard about that issue with Black Walnut trees, here is some info: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1148.html

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Reply #5 - 07/20/10 at 11:37:55

Last year my tomato plants were producing beautiful tomatoes, but as they were ripening, they would begin to rot underneath. I managed to eat only 3 tomatoes! Mine were grown directly by seed. So was it the weather? No trees are around my garden.

This year, I have lots of tomatoes, still nice and healthy green including the leaves... I'm keeping my fingers crossed! I'm in Eastern Ontario, Canada

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bojickwoman Full Member Offline Posts: 29 Joliet, IL Gender:	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #6 - 07/30/10 at 11:29:40 My tomatoes are doing fabulous thanks to the hot and humid summer we are having in the Midwest. My bell peppers are doing terrible. I have flowers, but they never produce fruit. The hot peppers seem to be doing fine. I think I got a bad batch of pepper seedlings.
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ummie Global Moderator Offline wishing on a star Posts: 6994 Gender:	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #7 - 07/30/10 at 11:44:57 LittleFire , Last year, I had the same problem with a couple of my tomatoe plants..the others were fine. This year they are doing nicely. We dont get the tomatoes to ripen until late August or early Sept. So we will see. I do have quite a few green ones, so we may be picking sooner than normal.
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Trelane God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 622	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #8 - 07/30/10 at 14:19:15 This year it is my pumpkin crop that is not performing. I am getting plenty of flowers but due to the heat they are only open very early in the morning and whither during the heat of the day. Not a single tuber on 5 vines yet!
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Reply #9 - 07/31/10 at 04:10:23

i've been getting 20 or so cherry tomatoes every other day for about a week...maybe half of them have a small dark pin prick of a spot that doesn't seem to go much further than surface...had larger tamatoes and cherry ones last year...but only got a handfull of big ones... some kind of diasese...the cherry ones did great...so i only planted cherry ones this year...best i can tell is maybe stink bugs causing the damage?...i don't recall ever seeing a stink bug or even hearing of a stinkbug while growing up...now i see them all the time...haven't seen them on the tamatoes...but there seems to be a swarm of them on the zuccinis Shocked

...read a little something about copper spray?...or maybe sucking the bugs up with a hand held battery operated vaccum?...oh yeah...right...the old lady sees me doing that she'll give me the old after your done with the garden...you can sweep the the carpet on both sets of stairs in the house Shocked

...then i'd have to do that regular like Undecided

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ummie Global Moderator Offline wishing on a star Posts: 6994 Gender:	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #10 - 07/31/10 at 05:01:45
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mohrlikeit God Member Offline I Love Prophecies Posts: 1387	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #11 - 07/31/10 at 07:54:39 enif funny you mentioned that. My yard is INFESTED with stink bugs They are all over my blackberry bush and porch. crazy, we used to see one or two a year now they are everywhere all a sudden.
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venustra Senior Member Offline I Love Prophecies Posts: 339	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #12 - 07/31/10 at 08:25:21 My tomatoes are healthy looking, but still green. The strange thing about them is their shape. They are not round and smooth as usual, but are sort of ..bumpy. They look more like heirloom tomatoes, but they are just regular Big Boys.
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ummie Global Moderator Offline wishing on a star Posts: 6994 Gender:	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #13 - 08/01/10 at 04:14:09 LittleFire, yesterday I went to pick 2 of my plum tomatoes and found that the bottom had rotted. They were fine 2 days ago, just before turning the deep red. The plant still looks healthy.
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Aquarian Full Member Offline Posts: 199 Gender:	Re: Tomato bligh Reply #14 - 08/01/10 at 21:04:00 ummie wrote on 08/01/10 at 04:14:09: LittleFire, yesterday I went to pick 2 of my plum tomatoes and found that the bottom had rotted. They were fine 2 days ago, just before turning the deep red. The plant still looks healthy. Hi Ummie- Sounds like maybe "blossom end rot"?? http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/3000/3117.html
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