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Originally Posted by Father'sDaughter
Look similar to what mine did to some extent last year, but almost all were hit hard with it this year--yellow to brown on the leaves up and down the whole plant, top wilting and eventually dying, and stems turning brown. I've decided, after a lot of Internet searching, that it's most likely Verticulum Wilt.
In past years I had a bigger problem with bright yellow leaves initially up only one side of the plant (or sometimes affecting just one stem) and the tell-tale brown stem interior of Fusarium before the whole plant went belly up.
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Here's a nice page for Verticillium Wilt,symptoms, etc.,I saw it only twice, and was taught that the wilting was indeed onesided on the plant and both times that was true.
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.corne...rticillium.htm
I
was also taught that sometimes the plant would outgrow the infection.I never saw that with my two plants.
Who taught me? The local Cornell Coop-Ext person who was taught by Zitter at Cornell,who was an expert in tomato diseases, known worldwide,and the one who led me to coin the word CRUD.
Carolyn