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sunloving

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mildew vs blight
« on: July 17, 2012, 08:23:41 »
Every year in the greenhouse around this time i begin to get rotting on tomato leaves. Its usually brown triangles edged with yellow that spread in water drops. It rarely infects the stem this early and i can usually cope with it by removing each infected leaf.

Later on mid aug and beyond i get proper stem dark patches and rapid deterioration of the plants inc speckles on the fruit. Which i assume is blight

Im not sure if this is mildew early then blight or blight all along.
What do you guys think.

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Re: mildew vs blight
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2012, 08:45:55 »
Yes sounds like mildew followed by blight later on for a double whammy!

But there is a lot of blight about earlier this year, I'm trying to battle both in the polytunnel and greenhouse at the moment  :'(
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Re: mildew vs blight
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2012, 07:50:51 »
Blight sucks, sorry you've got it so early. and fingers crossed for some fast ripening .
good luck
x sunloving

 

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