What to do?

SCgardener · July 22, 2012

My tomato plants were really nice and tall 3weeks ago.We've been having an exceptionally lot of rain for that long.Now my plants look TERRIBLE!!

A few stems are producing more blooms now,but I don't know wether to take them up or let'm go and see what happens.I've gotten probably 50 or more pounds of nice looking maters off them already,but now they're splitting and I've had to throw about 10lbs away,is this because of the downpours+heat?Any help would be gladly appreciated!Not sure how to post pics on here yet,but will post some when I can
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b54red · July 22, 2012

Wow looks like the foliage diseased have completely taken over your plants. You could spray with the dilute bleach solution but from what I can see you don't have much healthy growth left. If I were you I would pull them and plant some more seedlings for fall tomatoes. You should have time if you do it soon. If you decide to replant make sure not to get late season plants; but try to get tomatoes that make in 70 days or less.

SCgardener · July 23, 2012

Thanks for the responce.I'll propably just replant like you said.Just makes me mad that they were doing sooo well

b54red · July 23, 2012

I have been dealing with the same problems down here this year. Thank goodness for the rain but when you get frequent rains during really hot weather with near 100% humidity the result down here is massive foliage diseases. It is all but impossible to control them when the weather is like that. You can't keep a fungicide on them and diseases spread so fast on the plants in those conditions. Despite some disease my peppers have been doing much better than the last couple of years which were pure drought.

SCgardener · July 23, 2012

I agree!I love that my garden gets God's water,but it's been a LOT here lately,but if we didn't have it we'd be whining because it wasn't raining.My peppers have been awesome this year too!California Wonder Bells have produced big time and started blooming again already and my Jalapeno's have also been awesome.First time I've had any luck with either.So all in all I'm still happy

July 22, 2012	#1
SCgardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Laurens SC Posts: 10	What to do? My tomato plants were really nice and tall 3weeks ago.We've been having an exceptionally lot of rain for that long.Now my plants look TERRIBLE!!A few stems are producing more blooms now,but I don't know wether to take them up or let'm go and see what happens.I've gotten probably 50 or more pounds of nice looking maters off them already,but now they're splitting and I've had to throw about 10lbs away,is this because of the downpours+heat?Any help would be gladly appreciated!Not sure how to post pics on here yet,but will post some when I can 045.jpg 046.jpg Last edited by SCgardener; July 22, 2012 at 01:45 PM. Reason: to insert image

July 23, 2012	#3
SCgardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Laurens SC Posts: 10	Thanks for the responce.I'll propably just replant like you said.Just makes me mad that they were doing sooo well Last edited by SCgardener; July 23, 2012 at 07:42 AM. Reason: to add

July 22, 2012	#2
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	Wow looks like the foliage diseased have completely taken over your plants. You could spray with the dilute bleach solution but from what I can see you don't have much healthy growth left. If I were you I would pull them and plant some more seedlings for fall tomatoes. You should have time if you do it soon. If you decide to replant make sure not to get late season plants; but try to get tomatoes that make in 70 days or less.