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Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: doganjo on June 30, 2013, 10:26:37 pm

Title: Tomato question from a friend of mine not on TAS
Post by: doganjo on June 30, 2013, 10:26:37 pm

My pal, Liz, just sent me thsi message - "One of our tomato plants has the most peculiar tomato growing on the truss.   Imagine a conker.......and the base of it is a different texture than the rest of it which is smooth.   well the base of the fruit is like that too, brown and roughish  .   Julie, (her daughter) said she heard on a gardening programme that some tomatoes have a *bug* this year airborne.
Maybe you could ask on your forum for me."

Can anyone help please?

Title: Re: Tomato question from a friend of mine not on TAS
Post by: Mammyshaz on June 30, 2013, 10:55:46 pm

 It's not blight is it?  :o  look up some piccies. The tomatoes start going brown often from the bottom and have a sort of pimply effect. All my tomatoes in the poly had it last year  :'( what a disaster. It is airbourne so spreads quickly.

Title: Re: Tomato question from a friend of mine not on TAS
Post by: doganjo on June 30, 2013, 11:05:11 pm

I did wonder but she says it's only one  and the plants are fine otherwise.  I'll send her this picture I found to see if it's like that.

Title: Re: Tomato question from a friend of mine not on TAS
Post by: Mammyshaz on June 30, 2013, 11:10:22 pm

Hope it's not, I lost so much fruit last year. Somebody on here did tell me to take off all the fruit and ripen the unaffected ones on a windowsill. Some of them developed it as they ripened  :'( but at least I got some fruits from them.
This year I've split half for outside and half inside just to have a better chance if one lot gets it. Being airborne, there is always risk of spread.

Title: Re: Tomato question from a friend of mine not on TAS
Post by: HesterF on July 01, 2013, 12:18:02 am

I had blight last year too - clearly a bad year for it. Suspect I've got it on the potatoes now - am trying to remove them as soon as they start looking sad to save the rest  :(. I guess it depends how long hers has been like this. Blight will start in a very limited place first but will spread within a few days so if it's been like this for weeks, no panic, if it's new, get the tomato off now and make sure it goes far, far away from any other tomato. You can spray with copper something solution which helps if you get in early enough - it did save my crop one year.

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Title: Re: Tomato question from a friend of mine not on TAS
Post by: Possum on July 02, 2013, 10:41:21 pm

It might be blossom end rot. A disease that only affects individual fruits.

Title: Re: Tomato question from a friend of mine not on TAS
Post by: suziequeue on July 03, 2013, 04:23:53 pm

Certainly sounds like blossom end rot to me

Title: Re: Tomato question from a friend of mine not on TAS
Post by: doganjo on July 03, 2013, 04:26:38 pm

Thanks, folks,  :bouquet: I've told Liz to Google both to see which it is and start treatment if possible  :fc: