Have Late Blight...Spray Now or Give Up?

Jimche · August 4, 2009

Hi All.

We have the dreaded LB and our tomto garden is over 600 plants, 53 varieties. It started as a glorious year, our first in the market gardening hobby-business. You can see how enthusiatic we have been about this whole venture on our website www.solanagardens.com so this is a real heart-breaker. There are huge numbers of large, beautiful tomatoes on the plants, not yet ripe. But there is LB suddenly here, infecting perhaps 1/3 or more of the plants to one degree or another. Do we have a shot at salvaging the crop by culling out the infected leaves or plants? Doing so would be a huge effort which we'd prefer to avoid if it is futile at this point. And if we spray with chlorothalonil now, will it reverse the existing infection? Likewise, would dry and sunny weather prevent further infection?

As always, any help will be much appreciated!

Jimche and Galinche

August 4, 2009	#1
Jimche Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 58	Have Late Blight...Spray Now or Give Up? Hi All. We have the dreaded LB and our tomto garden is over 600 plants, 53 varieties. It started as a glorious year, our first in the market gardening hobby-business. You can see how enthusiatic we have been about this whole venture on our website www.solanagardens.com so this is a real heart-breaker. There are huge numbers of large, beautiful tomatoes on the plants, not yet ripe. But there is LB suddenly here, infecting perhaps 1/3 or more of the plants to one degree or another. Do we have a shot at salvaging the crop by culling out the infected leaves or plants? Doing so would be a huge effort which we'd prefer to avoid if it is futile at this point. And if we spray with chlorothalonil now, will it reverse the existing infection? Likewise, would dry and sunny weather prevent further infection? As always, any help will be much appreciated! Jimche and Galinche