[TheSpartacat]

Hi...
Found this today on my plot- strange brown pattern on tomato.
The leaves are healthy looking, no signs of spots or wilting.... just the tomatoes are mostly like this!!!
It's just on two plants- two which are the same variety (can't remember what.... i ran out of there clutching the specimen to go find out what it is)





Hope that image link works....

[DD.]

It looks a bit like mosaic virus:

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/green/mosaic.html

[TheSpartacat]

Thanks DD... that does look like it might be the culprit!
I was getting lost on google and starting to panic about the dreaded B word!

Going to re-inspect the leaves for yellowing- but they looked pretty healthy and lush.

Found some advice that says that it spreads via insects or unwashed hands through a puncture/ wound on the plant, but to remove infected parts, and not over-feed and the plant might actually survive, giving a reduced crop though.

Anyone else dealt with Tomato Mosaic virus this way or should i burn burn burn?
I have about 25 tomato plants on the go and would hate for this to take hold of the rest of the plants... Already have some severely mishapen fruits on my beefsteaks... attributing it to poor polination.
Any tomato experts in the house? :-)

[Yorkie]

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=250

for RHS page on tomato viruses.

I would certainly not compost the infected plants - burn or council waste for disposal.