Bill, my experience with Gray Mold has been very limited only seeing it a few times some years back and it always appeared as the textbook fuzzy gray growth. It wasn't something that rampaged through the garden which in part may have been because I was using a copper soap fungicide as a preventative for other fungal problems.
I'm not doubting the effectiveness of the bleach spray in dealing with the difficulties in your climate but I see a propensity for some people to use it as a cure all for anything that they perceive to be a fungal issue.
ArcherB already mentioned that he has a russet mite problem, something I have no first hand experience with. I was reading up a bit on Tomato Russet Mites and the symptoms are pretty variable. They feed on undersides of leaves, petioles and stems, exactly where the photos show the problems. Russet Mites are also associated with leaving a greasy appearance. (Could that be the oily film on the stems?)
So could all this damage be caused by Russet Mites and have nothing to do with Gray Mold or anything like it at all?
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May 23, 2017
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