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Help! ANOTHER Disease I can't figure out.

10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago

Ok...I have Googled and the closest picture wise I can come is maybe Fusarium???? My computer is down so I'm trying to look at tiny pictures on my phone.

I have been sick and didn't water for a couple days, but it's been in the 70s and nobody else looks wilty. I have plant nannys just for that reason. This plant was perfectly healthy the last time I looked at it. Purchased as a seedling, in brand new soil, in a brand new Smart Pot.

Felt well enough to water today and walked out to find I have lost all 3 of my growing tips and quite a bit of stem. I don't know if it is worth letting the couple tiny suckers still below try to grow or just pull the whole plant....I cut off everything that appeared to be visibly affected...obviously the rest of the plant must be as well, but thought it might have a chance of recovery?

Green Zebra must just be my white whale...last year it got some kind of canker (I did get about 10 tomatoes off of it at least) and this year I have whatever this is?

My other plant that appeared to have fert burn I moved and it appears to be recovering. This is now my problem child. No other plants seem affected.


Comments (8)

  • 10 years ago

    Sorry.That plant seems to be a goner. Try to protect the other ones.

    It looks like some case of Gray Mold ? Maybe ?Maybe blight ?

    How your weather has been ? cool, damp, rainy ? cloudy ?

    I have similar situation with a few showing brown stems. I keep spraying with fungicide and Clorox solution. ( 7 oz regular strength per gallon of water) .

    Sey

  • 10 years ago

    Lol looks like late blight?, It's probably from the wind or the rain, green house tomatos rarely get late blight i think?.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    It does look quite a bit like late blight, but if you say only growing tips were affected than it's very unlikely to be that. There should be also some leaves affected, possibly also some fruits (tips get affected after the disease is installed, it's not usually the first sign). Don't know what it is though.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I don't "think" it is LB....It really is just the top of the plant...all the bottom seems to still be healthy and green. It is fairly isolated since I moved my PB that seemed to have fert. burn. Reading more, grey mold fits better...not perfectly, but better. I have already chopped off anything that looked like it had brown or fuzzies on it, but maybe I will try to give it, and my others, a shot of copper and give it one more week. There are some tomatoes on the lower branches I would love to have ripen if I can. May be all I get off of this one since I don't know if suckers or side shoots will reestablish themselves.

    Although the skies opened up this morning so it may be a moot point. Some raw wounds where I clipped the stems, and who knows if the rest is actually infected, I may go out tomorrow and find it covered in gray... Been having such weird weather here in Portland, OR. 80s to 90s for a few days, then it pours for 2 days (but is still warm), and then it cools off into the 70's and then repeats.


    Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

  • 10 years ago

    Temperature in the 70s (F) sounds lovely for tomatoes.

    It is best to remove and get rid of any tomato plant that is wilting for reasons other than water stress. You can't save them. And they only spread the problem.


  • 10 years ago

    Well went out to check this morning and no reappearance so far of any icky looking "stuff" and all the remaining leaves are green.

    I watered, and I am leaving for 4 days, my neighbor will water on Tuesday for me, and then when I am back on Thursday I will see if it needs to be pulled. Wish me luck.

  • 10 years ago

    I was skeptical of Fusarium when you mentioned having plant in a smart pot. Fusarium is usually a soil transferred disease and not typically characteristic of potted plants. Other choices are Anthracnose, Phythopthera, Timber Rot or chemical burn. I'm actually leaning toward Phythopthera.

    The plant is a loss so you probably should pull and examine the roots. That would help in the diagnosis.

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