Fungicide for Gray Mold?

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Originally Posted by Dewayne mater

Well the dye is cast! I sprayed at about 5 ounces per gallon before I say this post. We shall see the effects. I wanted to jump on it because we've had a cool front come through and the high is supposed to be 84 today and low of 60 tonight. Tonight, I'll try the copper manzoceb mix and hope the relative coolness helps with that too. Thanks for those tips Ivan!

Its really a shame that this is happening now because I've got decent fruit set and tremendous flowering (Texas tomato food has to be at least partly responsible for that, thank you!), so I hate putting out harsh sprays. Still, I think I have no choice but to kill some leaves in an effort to get in front of the disease and keep the plants going longer. I'll report back on the phytotoxicity of bleach and the copper spray when the fall out is more evident. Thanks all for the input!

D.M.

I think you will be fine with the 5 ounces. Of course you will have some leaves that will show the effect by this afternoon if they have any of the non systemic foliage diseases. I could even see a few this morning where I had missed a little of the Gray Mold on my first spraying. That is why I like to do a follow up spraying after I remove the withered leaves. No matter how good I spray I always miss some. My beans lost nearly two thirds of their leaves but they look so much better now and they are growing good after a dose of fertilizer and it looks like they may last longer than I thought. A couple of my tomato plants have no leaves on the bottom half and the rest have no leaves on the bottom third but they once again look healthy except for the couple that are showing some fusarium signs and the few that were the worst hit by the herbicide drift. If I'm able I will use Daconil this afternoon since it has been nearly two weeks since I last used it because of the Gray Mold problems.

Don't you just love the Texas Tomato Food. I just ran out and will order some more this week. I am amazed at the fruit set I have had this season. I think I should have removed some of the tomatoes from the vines; but I have never had this many toms on the vines before and I just wanted to see how they did. There is just no way they will develop to full size with so many fruits on one vine and they are still setting great despite the heat and humidity. Even the young plants I put out 5 weeks ago have abundant fruit set already.

Bill