http://www.courant.com/health/hc-tomato-potato-blight-0710.artjul10,0,6507819.story
It has hit several areas even commercial in the connecticut river valley for anyone in the neighborhood, avove is the story in the hartford courant.
i guess it's time to spray.
I understand it affects tomatoes and potatoes.. if that is all I spray with ortho max will I be okay?
late blight in ct (news report)
you should be ok just keep a eye out for the blight . paul
I have been spraying. no late blight but other fungal problems are very bad.. lost 1/4 of my crop of tomatoes .. I started with 40 plants.. before spraying.
crazy year..
-joe-
I'm practically wiped out, despite heavy spraying PRE-onset. I just noticed last evening that the last "untouched" area is showing the first sign of ruination! Big, fat pooey!
crap.. have you identified it. .... mine so far have been stable, heavy spraying but the rain just keeps coming to ruin our day. I am about to go away for five days. can't tell you how nervous I am...
No one has definitively confirmed it, but the signs are all there. One very strange thing - that I've never noticed with the numerous early blight exeriences I've tolerated over the years, is the actual fruit damages. With easrly blight, you can pick the fruit and it's fine. With whatever I am experiencing now, even if the fruit looks untainted, after you pick it and leave it to ripen, the damage will turn up and progress rapidly. I actually took a few photos of the 2 Cherokee Purple that i picked. They day I salvaged them, then looked totally unblemished. By the next morning, one of the tomatoes showed "bruising" - for lack of a better word. By evening, the marring had visibly spread. Oddly, thought, when you touch the spots that appear to be rotten, the flesh is firm to the touch, though rough. This morning the marks had spread noticably, and I'll bet the fruit is alomst covered when i get home from work today. Regrettably, I didn't think to take photos of both sides of the fruit on day one, so you can't see how perfect it looked at the onset. the sprad is quite obvious, though. if only i had a good close-up camera, I'd have a excellent case study! (Hey - since I'm not going to have garden-fresh tomatoes to eat, I may as well at least get something out of this.
It seems to me that if you have escaped thus far, you will probably be fine. Even though we are still having alot ofrain, at least it's not steady, and there is heat and sunshine in between to dry things up. my problem was that mine started before the heat set in, so there was just no stopping it.
The only reason I really need to know what I have going on is so that I know how to prepare for next season. If i had to go through this 2 years in a row, i think I'd give it up! Thank God it's only the tomatoes!!! (Of course, that's my main and most favored crop, but at least I'm getting something for my efforts!)
One thing that makes me think it may not be the LB is that my potatoes are doing fine. Odd, no?
what do the leaves look like on the tomatoes? Paul