I retired a year ago April 1 2012 after working 2 jobs for 20 yrs. I always loved gardening yet didn't have the time nor energy to properly take care of a garden.
Now with the time I rolled my sleeves up and went to work at the job I love and now is my passion.
I decided to go organic for the first time and considering the drought and several days in a row of 100 plus degree days in early July here in So. Central Indiana . My first garden ( 30 X 40 ft.) was in my opinion quite successful, considering the conditions.
My water bill of course exploded to 3 times the norm for a couple of months but it was well worth it.
Much of my success can be attributed to this site and the internet, especially with all the help I got in going organic for the first time .
Sorry to ramble but as I told you gardening is my passion and I could go on and on . I love it almost as much as I love my wife, kids and grandkids.
So, to the point . I have always grown hybrid tomato's in the past when I did have time to garden . But this year I have some hybrids and bought some heirloom seeds of several different types from Tomato Fest . For the first time I started my own seedlings with great success.
From what I have learned the heirlooms are more succeptible to diseases and blight.
I'm posting pictures of 3 Black Krims , 2 of which are wilting and one still healthy . One of the wilting ones is severe and the other has just started at the top . This all started about 4 days ago on what looked like healthy plants with several blooms, both nice and green with no yellowing . I thought it might be a lack of water , although I have 70 tomato plants out and have been watering them all equally. So 2 days ago I had some rain water in a 5 gal bucket and gave them both about half a gallon apiece in the morning . 24 hrs later no change , maybe worse . So I gave them another half gallon yesterday , still no better this morning , defineitly worse .
My question is . I s there a possibility that whatever this is it could be contagious, and should I pull the plants or try to save them in some way. There are other plants near that are healthy and I would rather sacrifice a couple than take any chance of losing others. Although I was looking so forward to harvesting and and saving seeds from the highly touted Black Krim.