Ew, what's this on my formerly beautiful tomato?

KathyDC · July 13, 2013

Out in the garden today happily surveying all of my beautifully ripening fruit...

... and ...

... I see this.

What is it?! There aren't any holes in the fruit that I can see. It's a Barlow Jap plant - it's had some early blight/fungus issues but that's more or less under control at this point. I also haven't seen anything like this on any other fruit, on this plant or elsewhere.

Kathy

PaulF · July 13, 2013

Looks like bacterial spot to me. From what I remember there is not much you can do. I think it comes from contaminated seed. Someone more into diseases probably will explain better.

KathyDC · July 15, 2013

Fortunately, so far none of the other fruit ripening are showing any hints of this -- whatever it is!

Kathy

July 13, 2013	#2
PaulF Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brownville, Ne Posts: 3,296	Looks like bacterial spot to me. From what I remember there is not much you can do. I think it comes from contaminated seed. Someone more into diseases probably will explain better. __________________ there's two things money can't buy; true love and home grown tomatoes.

July 15, 2013	#3
KathyDC Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Suburban Washington, DC (Zone 7A) Posts: 347	Fortunately, so far none of the other fruit ripening are showing any hints of this -- whatever it is! Kathy