Help! Is this tomato blight?

wow.. i would keep a bottle of fungicide in mind.. some years, like this one , that is all you can do.. sorry for the loss. many diseases will overwinter. again, i don't know what or how - but tomatoes shouldn't be too complicated and sometimes you gotta spray them or take the loss..

I don't know for sure what mine got keep pulling off bad leaves and spraying. I have one that is almost leafless.LOL

Planted two in pots, left on cement patio next to house and there is not one leaf bad on either of them and they have never been sprayed with anything. So whatever it is it has to be in the soil I would think.
leafless plant

Hi.
I'm not sure if I have the same problem . See the pic below . I live in Michigan and 3 days ago I had nice and healthy tomatoes. Today at least 6 of my plants are sporting brown spots and some have holes. The one with holes has a brownish worm inside , but I'm assuming that first came the fungus which weakened the fruit and that how the worm got in. Any idea on what I have ?
So far only affected are Romas and Rutgers.
Help to identify the problem please

Correction: Worm was in one tomato. I just opened others to see if they all contained them - No...There is a white fungus on the inside of brown spots and some tiny brown spots (not sure what they are )

This message was edited Sep 8, 2009 2:27 PM

you two should get over to the tomato forum... they are excellent pics... carolyn over in tomatoes is an expert.. and more than fantastic with pathology.

i hope it is not too late for the rest of your harvest. I have never seen anything like that... are the tomatoes actually ripening on the charlie brown plant?

wow.. post the pic on the tomato forum asap.

Yes they are. And they taste really good. I have more than I know what to do with and am supplying a couple other people with tomatos also. There are even new leaves starting to come out.
I am not a subscriber. Trying to decide if I want to now or wait until next sprng. My growing season is coming to an end.

Thanks for the interest and if they would like to come over to this forum I will appreciate any and all advice.
Thanks

There is a lot of great subscribers and a wealth of information. Almost any question is answered within a few hours, most often by someone with a great deal of experience.. mostly, there is a kind of reward when you become confident enough to help someone out. I enjoy being a subscriber.. I will dig up two links that have helped a few people sort out the disease or disorder. you should be able to pick a few leaves or stems and match them up to the pictures to find out what you have and how to fix it.

actually, i posted them earlier.. if you havn't seen them here they are.. i fixed the links.. the earlier ones had spelling errors on my part.

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/DiagnosticKeys/TomLeaf/Late_Tom.htm


http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/

Thank you very much

I hope it is of some help and good luck. if they are producing, they will usually heal in my experience.
-joe-

Carolyn wrote in another post that you need to spray tomatoes with daconil from the time you set them out on a scheduled basis with an occasiona copper spray. Will definitly give that a try next season.

all of my neighbors lost their tomatoes this year but as soon as I read about the blight I started spraying with Bonide Funginol. I have tiny tomatoes due to the weather but I have tomatoes!

I would love to be organic but I am a realist. I would rather wash the tomatoes and take my chances than not have tomatoes at all.

JJconcepts I checked out the links thank you.
And I subscribed and posted on the tomato forum.
Carolyn seemed to think it was a septoria leaf spot.
They are producing well so I keep picking them and it has helped since it has stopped raining and I can spray without raining the next day.

Jim did you see my bald plants?

Welcome, jjsgramma, to being a subscriber to DG! I've never seen anyone's request for information and help be ignored on the forums.

Jjconcepts, that aggie-hort site with photos is priceless.

Yesterday, I pulled up the last of my few remaining tomato plants--the ones in the EarthBoxes--that had managed to avoid the very worst of the early blight. But by now the vines were just too bald ; no new tomatoes were forming and the ones still on the vine mostly had ugly brown lesions. In previous seasons I've been harvesting tomatoes into November! Not this year.
For the last several weeks I've been driving around and peering jealously into other people's veggie patches to see how THEIR 'maters are doing. I've seen a lot of bad looking (like mine) vines and some that seem to have avoided disease. There's a all-organic community garden near me, and I noticed that one person's vines look good and are still bearing. The difference is that he had affixed a little windmill to blow on his tomatoes. I'm wondering if the movement of air may have helped his plants stay healthier. I know I planted mine too close together.
Either that or he was spraying with Funginol secretly at midnight LOL!

I saw your baldy tomatoes, jjs. Mine to that to some degree, every year. Usually starts at the bottom and follows production up to the top. Doesn't seem to effect my tomatoes, so I don't worry about it. If I have time I cut the dead stems off. Mainly have this on the 444's I plant. I just thought it was a characteristic of the variety. Guess not. Already made up my mind to start using Daconil weekly from the time of planting with an application of copper spray occasionally.

I have been using the ortho disease spray with the daconil weekly and after most every rain.. The results are fantastic, however i got comfortable (lazy) when the nights temp dropped into the 50's and haven't sprayed in two weeks. Sure enough i went out Thursday morning and my tomatoes and squash plants were dying in front of me..yellow, spotty, brown leaves everywhere.. I immediately picked up the sprayer and the problems receded some and it looks as though i will be fine to harvest the full season! I feel for those that had a lot of problems, like bookreader, organic is great - tomatoes filling my freezer is better!

Glad the links helped and Welcome to daves; jj's gramma!
-joe-

Thanks Joe.
Jim mine will be getting sprayed at the beginning as well. But I still have two in pots on the patio that look great. I think they are coming in the house later!!