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Originally Posted by KarenO
 don’t worry about all of that biz too much.
Hopefully it will perform in your garden and your crop does not suffer as much as last year.
Is There another factor such as an insect vector which would increase your odds of success if controlled as well? I am fortunate not to be intimately familiar with this disease in my area as yet.
KarenO |
This is a small bit of the information out there on TSWV.:
https://intranet.ces.ncsu.edu/2017/0...local-problem/
I have read several publications that said that had the tomato breeders not been able to develop the TSWV tolerant tomatoes quickly, we would have lost the commercial tomato business in the Southeast. Thanks Guys. Now they need to keep working on making them not so firm and more tasty for home gardens. There are quite a few available now to choose from so things are looking up.
My wife is one of those Master Gardner people with many hundreds of plants, so, no way can I hope to get rid of all the Thirps, which are the "insect vector" for spreading TSWV. It only takes a few Thirps to infect a tomato patch as they move from plant to plant. So I've heard.
walt