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| Hi, I'm new to gardening and new to the forum. I bought a couple of nice looking tomato plants from an old guy at our local farmer's market two weeks ago. One was a Cherokee Purple, and one was a Sweet 100 cherry tomato. The Cherokee purple looks great.
Problem is, I started noticing about a week ago some darker green looking spots on the mature leaves of the Sweet 100. My first thought was that it was blight and I should pitch it immediately... but it doesn't LOOK like the pictures of blight that I see online. The leaves have slowly gotten more spots, but the spots died. There's no discoloration other than the dead spots. Note on the image: there's no white on the leaves, that's just reflection from the flash that you see. http://img638.imageshack.us/i/img0988d.jpg/
If anyone could identify this, tell me if I should rip out the plant or if not, how to treat it, I would be greatly appreciative. I have no idea what I'm doing, and no one to teach me how to garden. :/ |
Image link: Please help identify tomato leaf spots? (58 k)
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| This doesn't look like a disease and, you're right, it's definitely not blight. Looks like insect damage to me. |
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- Posted by ncrealestateguy (My Page) on Tue, May 25, 10 at 18:00
| I agree with Lionheart... looks like snail damage to me... they have a rasping mouthpart that can do this. The sweet 100 is a tough plant to begin with. And one of my favorite cherries. |
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- Posted by echo_of_eve (My Page) on Wed, May 26, 10 at 22:48
| Hi guys, thanks for the "not-blight" info, I will refrain from ripping it out and burning it. One note, it's possible that it had snails before I bought it, but I didn't notice spots when I bought it, then it sat in my house for a week, with me checking on it every day (no snails or bugs) and i started to notice those spots developing. They started out darker green, and then eventually became the sunken, dried, brown spots that you see in the photos. Does that help any? |
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| Nothing ate the tissue. Instead the cells collapsed due to a cultrual/environemental glitch. As a starter list consider these: Perhaps not hardened off enough; windy; to warm; inadequate water; root damage. |
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