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Old July 18, 2007   #1
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Even though I have sprayed daconil every 7-10 days, I have a sick Mortgage Lifter. I have read through the posts on diseases, but have not really identified the problem. The color of the leaves went from dark green a few days ago to a pale yellowish green today---plus there are rusty looking blotches on some of the leaves. Should I try to treat this plant or just get rid of it? Any advice would be appreciated!As you can see, my tomatoes aren't setting fruit, only a few small tomatoes so far. The weather has been really hot here---over 100 degrees almost every day.
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Old July 19, 2007   #2
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Elayne, is it the whole plant or just the leaves near the bottom. Also when the weather cools a bit you might want to get one of those cheapy battery powered toothbrushes and buzz your blossoms to increase your fruitset. Ami
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looks like possible early blight to me. Continue with your Daconil regimen and remove the effected leaves. The plants look fairly healthy otherwise, best I can see

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I cut off all the infected foliage---planned to spray daconil, but the wind is blowing hard!!!! I will leave it a few more days and see what happens. At least it is cooler today, but the forecast is for more 100 degree days therough the weekend. Thanks for the help!
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Try to find the one named Ortho Garden Disease Control. It has daconil and it worked on my plants. Which looked so good to start with that I didn't spray them, and regretted it. But I trimmed the bad leaves and sprayed and it worked.


I really knew better but kept putting off spraying.
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I'm having the hot weather too, and very little fruit set for how many blossoms the plants have. I think its this darn heat. You would think if we put up with 10+ days of single digits in the winter, we wouldn't have to deal with 10+ days of triple digit weather. If we don't get a couple days o cooler weather sometime soon my tomato crop isn't going to be very good. I'll probably get a lot of fruit set the beginning of September and have lots of green fruit and not much ripen before the frost hits.

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It's 103 today, and the seven day forecast shows 100 plus every day. I will probably have fruit set in September, also, which is almost too late---our first frost is usually in September. Thanks for the input!
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