Should I Pull This Plant????

Elayne · July 18, 2007

Even though I have sprayed daconil every 7-10 days, I have a sick Mortgage Lifter. I have read through the posts on diseases, but have not really identified the problem. The color of the leaves went from dark green a few days ago to a pale yellowish green today---plus there are rusty looking blotches on some of the leaves. Should I try to treat this plant or just get rid of it? Any advice would be appreciated!As you can see, my tomatoes aren't setting fruit, only a few small tomatoes so far. The weather has been really hot here---over 100 degrees almost every day.

amideutch · July 19, 2007

Elayne, is it the whole plant or just the leaves near the bottom. Also when the weather cools a bit you might want to get one of those cheapy battery powered toothbrushes and buzz your blossoms to increase your fruitset. Ami

duajones · July 19, 2007

looks like possible early blight to me. Continue with your Daconil regimen and remove the effected leaves. The plants look fairly healthy otherwise, best I can see

Duane

Elayne · July 19, 2007

I cut off all the infected foliage---planned to spray daconil, but the wind is blowing hard!!!! I will leave it a few more days and see what happens. At least it is cooler today, but the forecast is for more 100 degree days therough the weekend. Thanks for the help!

Earl · July 19, 2007

Try to find the one named Ortho Garden Disease Control. It has daconil and it worked on my plants. Which looked so good to start with that I didn't spray them, and regretted it. But I trimmed the bad leaves and sprayed and it worked.

I really knew better but kept putting off spraying.

spyfferoni · July 21, 2007

I'm having the hot weather too, and very little fruit set for how many blossoms the plants have. I think its this darn heat. You would think if we put up with 10+ days of single digits in the winter, we wouldn't have to deal with 10+ days of triple digit weather. If we don't get a couple days o cooler weather sometime soon my tomato crop isn't going to be very good. I'll probably get a lot of fruit set the beginning of September and have lots of green fruit and not much ripen before the frost hits.

Tyff

Elayne · July 21, 2007

It's 103 today, and the seven day forecast shows 100 plus every day. I will probably have fruit set in September, also, which is almost too late---our first frost is usually in September. Thanks for the input!

July 19, 2007	#2
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	Elayne, is it the whole plant or just the leaves near the bottom. Also when the weather cools a bit you might want to get one of those cheapy battery powered toothbrushes and buzz your blossoms to increase your fruitset. Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

July 19, 2007	#4
Elayne Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Newcastle, Wyoming Posts: 65	I cut off all the infected foliage---planned to spray daconil, but the wind is blowing hard!!!! I will leave it a few more days and see what happens. At least it is cooler today, but the forecast is for more 100 degree days therough the weekend. Thanks for the help! __________________ Chaos is a friend of mine.

July 19, 2007	#5
Earl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 1,278	Try to find the one named Ortho Garden Disease Control. It has daconil and it worked on my plants. Which looked so good to start with that I didn't spray them, and regretted it. But I trimmed the bad leaves and sprayed and it worked. I really knew better but kept putting off spraying. __________________ "Seriously think about what you're about to do/say before you do it and the outcome will always be better." Earl

July 21, 2007	#7
Elayne Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Newcastle, Wyoming Posts: 65	It's 103 today, and the seven day forecast shows 100 plus every day. I will probably have fruit set in September, also, which is almost too late---our first frost is usually in September. Thanks for the input! __________________ Chaos is a friend of mine.

July 19, 2007	#3
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	looks like possible early blight to me. Continue with your Daconil regimen and remove the effected leaves. The plants look fairly healthy otherwise, best I can see Duane

July 21, 2007	#6
spyfferoni Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 675	I'm having the hot weather too, and very little fruit set for how many blossoms the plants have. I think its this darn heat. You would think if we put up with 10+ days of single digits in the winter, we wouldn't have to deal with 10+ days of triple digit weather. If we don't get a couple days o cooler weather sometime soon my tomato crop isn't going to be very good. I'll probably get a lot of fruit set the beginning of September and have lots of green fruit and not much ripen before the frost hits. Tyff