It's been uncharastrically hot during the days and rainy during the nights for the last but of my 15 tomato plants, this is the sole plant to show such problems. A friend suggested to me that is was some sort of blight and I therefore ripped it out. But after some research it would seem that the problem might be more in line with a bacteria problem. The spots on the fruit maybe suggesting cankers?

Thanks!

I can't really see enough detail on the fruit with the "spots" to even make a guess.

Give more info.

Blight is just a general word which many use to describe a sick plant but it's much better if a spcific Dx can be made in terms of prognosis for other nearby plants now and in future years.

If a disease then I would expect other tomato plants in the same area to be also affected b/c what I'm thinking about is a systemic disease that is soilborne. Is there anything different about this plant in terms of you bought it somewhere, you traded seeds for it, assuming you raised your own plants, etc.

Lastly, what variety is it?

Carolyn

I had grown these from the seeds of tomatoes a friend gave me last fall from this crop of what I think were all ID Early Girls. He did have a similar problem with his tomatoes but I believe that was 2 or 3 years ago now. If I recall correctly, none of the tomatoes had the rot one associates, or at least I associate, with early blight.

On the spot front, they were hard, raised and circular. Taking a look this morning, I didn't notice any other fruit with such bumps.

However, I'm afraid to say that I did notice that the 3 plants closest to the original tomato have a few leaves now starting to show similar signs of damage.

I hope this hopes and thanks a lot!

Graham