Pinworms
DKTomato
11 years ago
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I discovered very small pinworms yesterday on my 2 container tomato plants (big boy and celebrity). I discarded all the affected leaves and sprayed BT. The plants were showing signs of stress the past 3 weeks and I thought it may be early blight coming on - I was wrong. The plants seem to be doing fine at this point and I will continue spraying every 7-10 days.
Before I sprayed the BT, I picked off 15 fruits from the 2 plants. Most of the fruits do not appear to have any damage from the pinworms. I did notice that one of the fruits had a pinworm at the calyx. I cut open two other fruits and there does not appear to be any damage, and there was no sight of worms. My question is: are the fruits safe to eat (assuming there is no visible sign of worms)?
I have another 40 fruits to pick in the coming 2-3 weeks as its been a good growing year so far. Thanks for any advice.
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