[little sweetpeas]

When I returned from my holday 2 weeks ago I returned to find blight in the polytunnel, even the tomatos had brown patches. I pulled up several plants and stripped the ones only leaving the fruit. I was just hoping that the fruit may turn red. I lost about 12 plants and several kilo's of fruit.

Today I finally decided to pull up the other plants and check for more damage.

To my surprise the fruit have turned red, new healthy growth on the plants and when weeding found lots of 2 inch high self seeded plants. So do i leave them or pull them up.
At the other end of the tunnel my the plants which were grown from saved seed are still producing flowers and setting fruit even though they had black patches on the stem and leaves.

So can plants get over blight or should I still clear the tunnel

[janette]

Hi I have a bit of blight on my tomatoes and I am spraying them with a concoction made with mares tail (a wild plant) it worked for me 3 years ago when I had blight really badly and like you the later growth had fruit so maybe they just recover from jane

[pushrod]

What type recovered? are they all the same type? -some  are more resistant than others.

[Salmo]

Blight spores only develop in warm and humid weather. I think you will see the blight invade the new growth very quickly if we get those conditions.

[savbo]

a use for horsetail!

[little sweetpeas]

a use for horsetail!

well I have alot of that  what do you do just let in rot down in a waterbutt?

The  plants that haven't really been affected by the blight apart from the odd leave stem haveing brown patches are saved seed from last year. The variety is irish gardners delight crossed with Latah which orginally came from realseeds. The plants are still setting fruit.  I will email them to see if anyone else has reported the same results.

The palnts that have put on new growth and remaining fruit turned red was a itain plum type but as these won't produce any more fruit in time for picking I willclear the crop. I lost about 1/3 of my harvest from these plants.

I didn't really loose much harvest from my GD as thehealthy green fruit turned red at home and the fruit I left on the plants have now turned red. I lost about 2kg of GD to blight but that doesn't count any more fruit that would have set.

[MikeyandAnnie]

Our plum tomatoes seem to have recovered very well after we chopped down the potato haulms that were blighted, took off the infected bits and quarrantined the toms in a distant corner of the plot.  Now they're producing lots of lucious fruit!

There is light at the end of the tunnel after all.