another ID help

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Originally Posted by RayR

That's Early Blight and it's sporelating. Cut those infected leaves off and trash them pronto. Exel lg does not control Early Blight, Actinovate does, keep spraying both sides of the leaves and the surface of the bed.

Ted, you can't feed a pathogenic fungus like Early Blight. They are not free living organisms, they have to infect a plant and get their food from their victim to survive and multiply.

Ray, no offense, but the first picture shows only leaves from the lower part of the plant. This is usually the most shaded part of the plant and some yellowing here is normal and non lethal. But moisture damage can also look like this, especially when excess moisture is in the formula. The darker, more damaged portions of the leaves are on the bottom of the leaves shown, again suggesting that excess moisture remained and caused some damage. All the other plants are said to be okay. Early blight isn't usually so selective as to pick out only one plant and only damage that one to the extent shown.

Without seeing the rest of the plant, I would not make the call of early blight or anything else right now. An antifungal will be good move even if the plant is not suffering from anything. Adding bacterial accelerators like molasses just doesn't make sense right now. I just don't think we have enough real information to make the final call on this one.

JMHO