Does this look light blight?

[Southern Gardener]

I pulled up a bunch of plants last night and cut the leaves off several - I mainly want to save my brandywines as I haven't gotten but two tomatoes from them.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

No not the blight I have experience of but have a look at this page & see if any of the photos look like your plants.

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

I am so sorry that you are having so much trouble with your tomatoes -- I know how I felt last year & I am on tenterhooks this year. They are the first plants I look at every morning & the last at night (& several times throughout each day). Talk about an obsession -- I'm like a BLIGHT STALKER -- it's really CRAZY....!!

Best of Luck....!


Hattie

 

[NurseNettie]

Blight is fungal, and usually starts on the stems. Looks to me like insect or sun/wind damage if it's just the leaves- but check the website given to be sure

 

[vfem]

It looks like Hattie gave you an awesome site! It looks like bacterial speck from the pictures to me.

Have you been spray watering or drip? Have there been any sever random mid day storms lately? In the south, it would make sense!

I would treat it like a fungi first and see if you get any reaction or clearing of the problem. Pull the bad leaves, and spray in the evening with a 1/4 milk to 3/4 water solution. Give it a good 3-4 days (continuing to pull infected leaves).

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Blight is fungal, and usually starts on the stems. Looks to me like insect or sun/wind damage if it's just the leaves- but check the website given to be sure

Souther Gardener,

I have just had an idea. I read on another thread that you had been experiencing VERY HOT WEATHER. I think that would bring on the yellow leaves especially if it was also very windy as well. I think it would be an idea to strip off the already yellowed leaves & then water very deeply & the next day give them more water but this time add a few tablespoons of Epson Salts mixed into the water. I am constantly amazed by the power of Epson Salts. It certainly can't do any harm!

Good Luck!

Hattie

 

[wifezilla]

I have a few leaves that look like that. Our weather is VERY hot and windy. I will get me some epsom salts STAT!

 

[journey11]

Blight is fungal, and usually starts on the stems. Looks to me like insect or sun/wind damage if it's just the leaves- but check the website given to be sure

I think sun/wind damage as well... Sometimes if they've dried out and wilted really bad, the leaves will yellow and be marred like that with gray/silver around the edges after they've been watered and perked back up. Looks like my pepper seedlings when I tortured them by letting them dry out in their cell packs.

Watch for healthy green growth at the tips to see if they recover and pick back up again. If it continues and worsens, affecting leaves that are currently healthy, then maybe suspect a disease.

Some heavy mulching around the base of the plants will help to hold a more consistent soil moisture. See if that helps.

Has it been really hot and dry where you are?

 

[obsessed]

I dont know what looks like what! but I just posted a few of my leaves and they look very similar.

But then I am also having the problem with the rotting tomatoes which makes me think mine is blight.

 

[elf]

Epson salts will also give your tomatoes a wonderfully sweeter taste.

 

[Southern Gardener]

Thanks everyone! Yes! It is so stinking hot here - 99 is the high today. We were getting brief showers during the day, but no rain in about a week now. I water with a soaker hose - not overhead. The humidity is unbelievable, although normal for my neck of the woods.

From the pictures it looks like it could be Gray leaf spot or powdery mildew. But then maybe it might be due to the stink bugs I had? I'm going to try both the milk/water and the Espon salt. Thanks "Blight Stalker"