Need help diagnosing tomato disease

[outsiders71]

Hello,

First let me apologize for not having any pictures, these are not my tomatoes that have the disease but a family members who lives in PA.

I visited them about a few weeks ago and they had some of the most amazing tomato plants I've seen. Thick stems, and loaded to the gills with blossoms and green tomatoes. I don't think you could grow tomato plants any better.

Fast forward to a week ago and all the sudden they noticed spots the size of a thumb print on their green tomatoes. All of them. When they saw this they took precaution and removed them all and sprayed with a fungicide as a precaution especially with the Late Blight scare going around.

A few days later the lower leaves wilted and the stems are starting to turn brown from the soil, gradually traveling upwards. The stems are solid brown, not spotted or lesioned.

I've gone through the sticky links of plant diseases and can't pinpoint the disease myself. My guess is some kind of Bacterial Wilt. I hope somebody can chime in and help with the information I gave, although I know pictures work better.

Thanks.

[ContainerTed]

Welcome to Tomatoville.

It would be helpful to know how long they have grown tomatoes in that particular spot. Also, whether or not they have seen anything like this before. Are the toms in the ground or in containers? Did they do any soil amendments to their garden this year? Has anyone, including their neighbors, sprayed anything like Roundup or another plant killer?

From your description, some kind of wilt would be a possibility, but there are other possibilities as well. Need more info.

Ted

[outsiders71]

Originally Posted by ContainerTed

Welcome to Tomatoville.

It would be helpful to know how long they have grown tomatoes in that particular spot. Also, whether or not they have seen anything like this before. Are the toms in the ground or in containers? Did they do any soil amendments to their garden this year? Has anyone, including their neighbors, sprayed anything like Roundup or another plant killer?

From your description, some kind of wilt would be a possibility, but there are other possibilities as well. Need more info.

Ted

They rotate their tomatoes between two plots, and have never seen anything like this before on their tomatoes. Tomatoes are in the ground, and no new soil amendments, just bone meal in the planting hole. Neighbors are pretty spread out and distant from the garden plots.