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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: hasbeans on June 13, 2019, 10:42

Title: disease identification help - cape gooseberry
Post by: hasbeans on June 13, 2019, 10:42

Hi,
I got a plant mail order and have just removed a dying leaf.  I'm worried it has something nasty and might spread to my toms and potatoes.  Looking online it looks a bit like early blight.
Any ideas?
Ta

Title: Re: disease identification help - cape gooseberry
Post by: Potterer on June 13, 2019, 13:54

That’s interesting I hadn’t thought of cape gooseberry getting blight but they are the same family... I think it just looks like an ordinary leaf dying off, maybe not getting enough nutrients whilst packaged. Blight, in my experience has black/ dark splodges on leaves or stem. If you’re unsure can you nurture the plant a bit but away from tomatoes and potatoes, till you see if it gets better or worse?

Title: Re: disease identification help - cape gooseberry
Post by: hasbeans on June 13, 2019, 14:14

currently on the naughty cill and I'm washing my eyes after looking at it!  I'll give it a bit of seaweed and nettle and see if it improves.