Blight? Tomatoes and peppers

[heather smith]

So I'm positive I have blight on tomato and green pepper plants. What can I do now? Please day I can salvage this somehow. I love in coastal north carolina

 

[so lucky]

The tomato: is that the only place it looks like that? I would just cut that part off and throw in the trash, not compost. I'm not convinced that it is blight. For me, it starts at the bottom leaves and works its way up.
The pepper: I have never actually had a pepper with blight. Are all the peppers affected like that? Could it be damage from something--water on leaves and really hot sun?
I bet someone on here knows....??

 

[majorcatfish]

@heather smith was there anything sprayed on them or around them???

 

[heather smith]

I have 3 different tomato plants that have leaves that look like that around the bottom in some places and the peppers didn't look like that until just after we had a huge rain storm. I have done anything different than normal in terms of spraying anything around them at all

 

[Smart Red]

@heather smith, to make gardening even more confusing, there is blight and there is blight and then there is leaf spot. Leaf spot usually starts on the bottom leaves of the tomato plant. The spots are black and the leaf turns a yellowish color. I pull the spotted leaves off and make sure there is a mulch under the plants so organisms in the soil don't splash up onto the leaves during a rain.

Early blight show as brown spots with a darker circle around it on older leaves. There is a yellow 'aura' around the outside of the spots. As the spots grow larger, they cause the leaf to turn brown an drop.

Then there is late blight. That starts out looking like water spots on the leaves and on the stems. The leaves begin to curl up and drop. Late blight will also show on the fruits themselves, making the fruit rot rather than ripen.

I have used applications of copper for late blight and a fungicide for early blight, but I seldom have had either blights. Leaf spot used to be a problem before I started mulching heavily with straw over brown paper bags.

 

[heather smith]

Thank you so much! So I will try some mulch and remove the leaves that aren't good and see

 

[heather smith]

Here's a few more pictures

 

[lesa]

I don't think it is blight. As others have said, remove the bad parts and wait and see. To my knowledge there is no "pepper blight". Good luck!

 

[catjac1975]

It does look like they have been splashed with something.