Don't think it was Late Blight

b54red · May 7, 2012

We had a good rain yesterday and got nearly an inch over about 5 or 6 hours. Went out to tie up some plants today and found my Franks Large Red plant devastated by something. All the new growth was brown and wilted and the main stem had huge lesions like it was rotten from the top for nearly 10 inches down the plant. It looked perfect day before yesterday and then bam. I feared it might be Late Blight but it didn't exactly look like it to me. What worried me were the huge lesions and the quickness with which the plant was taken down. Sorry I don't have a picture; I would have taken a photo but my camera battery was dead. I didn't want to leave it in the garden til tomorrow so I pulled it and put it in a trash bag. I have never seen anything quite like it but what it resembled most was Late Blight. We have had it before in early summer here a good while back and it took out everything so I didn't want to take any chances. If I see another plant with similar symptoms I will spray everything with a bleach solution and maybe the old battery will take another charge so I can get a picture. I hope I don't have to take one though.

May 7, 2012	#1
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	Don't think it was Late Blight We had a good rain yesterday and got nearly an inch over about 5 or 6 hours. Went out to tie up some plants today and found my Franks Large Red plant devastated by something. All the new growth was brown and wilted and the main stem had huge lesions like it was rotten from the top for nearly 10 inches down the plant. It looked perfect day before yesterday and then bam. I feared it might be Late Blight but it didn't exactly look like it to me. What worried me were the huge lesions and the quickness with which the plant was taken down. Sorry I don't have a picture; I would have taken a photo but my camera battery was dead. I didn't want to leave it in the garden til tomorrow so I pulled it and put it in a trash bag. I have never seen anything quite like it but what it resembled most was Late Blight. We have had it before in early summer here a good while back and it took out everything so I didn't want to take any chances. If I see another plant with similar symptoms I will spray everything with a bleach solution and maybe the old battery will take another charge so I can get a picture. I hope I don't have to take one though.