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Can you help diagnose my spots?

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Posted by witchymama Southern Maine (My Page) on
Mon, Jun 1, 09 at 10:21

Tomato plants were doing fine, we had about three days of rain with not much sunshine. The past two days have been sun and they started to look less droopy. Last night it was colder but no rain. This morning I find spots. :( Can you help diagnose what is on the majority of my tomato plants? (in ground and in containers waiting to plant)

These were all started from seed months ago. Nothing was nursery bought.

Bah files too large, here are the other pictures.
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Here is a link that might be useful: second picture

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RE: Can you help diagnose my spots?

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Looks like early blight. Remove and discard in the garbage.

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Two week later and new growth on the plants look fine. Removed affected leaves and the plants no longer look sickly. They are growing quite quickly and thickening up well.
When it rained again, some of the lower leaves turned colors and again looked odd. This seems to happen after it rains for awhile with no sun.

Still believe its early blight?

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Can we diagnose your spots? SURE!!!

Let's see. You're either a leopard, a jaguar, a young deer, or we all have eye problems. :>)

I think you've got it right. Weather related. Intensity of the green color will vary somewhat with the amount of direct sunlight the plants receive. Plants will tend to want to shut down some areas if the flow of nutrients and energy are not adequate. A foliar feed can sometimes offset this.

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