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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Audy70 on July 19, 2014, 13:41

Title: Tomato blight?
Post by: Audy70 on July 19, 2014, 13:41

Please tell me it's not. Only one plant, out of 7, has leaves at the bottom that look like this.

Title: Re: Tomato blight?
Post by: JayG on July 19, 2014, 13:51

Don't think so - they're old leaves which have done their job - take them off and do the same to any others which go the same way. Decaying leaves are potential homes for moulds and fungi which you definitely don't want to encourage.

Title: Re: Tomato blight?
Post by: AnneB on July 19, 2014, 13:56

I agree with JayG that lower older leaves often go yellow.  However, I think the brown patches look a bit ominous to me.  I can't see the stem from your picture, but if that has brown patches I would say it is blight.   Let's hope I am wrong and JayG is right!

Title: Re: Tomato blight?
Post by: mumofstig on July 19, 2014, 14:07

I've just been taking off bottom leaves that look exactly the same as that ;)

Title: Re: Tomato blight?
Post by: Audy70 on July 19, 2014, 17:17

Thanks all.

@Anne There are no brown patches on the stem but I'll keep an eye on them.