Early Blight is Back 2016

[greenthumbomaha]

This garden was started two years ago. Last year it was peppers, brandywine and san marzano tomatoes, watermelon, and glass gem corn. There was high disease pressure with a plethora of diseases on the tomato leaves in this same area last year. Everything looked good until last week when early blight started. Some plants are resisting so far. Weather is hot, humid and stormy.

Resisting early blight:

Black Cherry
Ludimella
Jet Star
Priddy F2 (not dwarf, but dwarf project)
Orange Russian
Opalka
Pink Caspian
Red Penna

Showing very mild to 1/3 plant early blight symptoms :

Coures de Taueau
Moskovich
Bedoin
Holy Land
Black Krim
Prudens Purple
Wes
Murry Smith
Magnif Pointe
KBX
Goose Creek
Indian Stripe
GGWT
Gukers Special
German Johnson
NAR
Summer Cider
Tye Dye
Rose De Berne

-Lisa

I have rated the blight on each plant and will monitor over the next few weeks. Certainly will consider changing varieties in this area if some plants resist.

[b54red]

Two plants that show definite resistance to EB here for me are Virginia Sweet and Delicious. Two that always seem to be susceptible are Red Barn and Dester. All the rest get it but it seems to move up them a bit more slowly most of the time. EB is just something that you have to deal with once the plants start setting lots of fruit and with frequent showers keeping a fungicide on to help is a real problem. It usually eases up again once the dry hot weather of late summer gets here.

Bill

[greenthumbomaha]

So far this has been in check in my other grow spot from the same transplant source (myself).

In this main garden of 70 plants, I used the bleach spray last year, and it helped in the beginning but it became overwhelming with the heat and number of plants. The plants looked horrible but production was still good. Every year I promise myself to begin a preventive spray program but back down when the plants look so good early on.

Totally agree on Dester being an eb magnet. Prudence Purple, which was reported to be resistant is ravaged too. Never tried VS, looking forward to the challenge.

- Lisa <--fool for thinking I can escape this disease after three years of sick plants!

[chlorophile]

Gonna be a hell of a week here as well; hot and humid as can be and sporadic thunderstorms. Everything is soaked all night from the crazy humidity. I saw one small early blight lesion and that's it so far. We'll see what the week brings.

Good luck!

[greenthumbomaha]

Its been very hot here for the past few days. Not as bad today heat wise, but storms have been rolling through in the evenings. I was surprised (made my day) not to see a sea of yellow after the evening 2 inch storm. Perhaps it gave up for a bit after I picked the yellow leaves off, or as Bill said it will return in late summer.

Here is a photo from yesterday. My regular computer is behaving badly!

Sorry everyone. This is my fault, not the computer.
How do I flip the photo once it is attached?

[PhilaGardener]

Whew! For a minute I thought that was a new way of staking tomatoes.

[rwsacto]

Finally!

Someone who is successful growing tomatoes topsy turvy

[Nematode]

Originally Posted by greenthumbomaha

Its been very hot here for the past few days. Not as bad today heat wise, but storms have been rolling through in the evenings. I was surprised (made my day) not to see a sea of yellow after the evening 2 inch storm. Perhaps it gave up for a bit after I picked the yellow leaves off, or as Bill said it will return in late summer.

Here is a photo from yesterday. My regular computer is behaving badly!

Sorry everyone. This is my fault, not the computer.
How do I flip the photo once it is attached?

Early blight is falling from the soil to the tomatoes, grow them right side up you should be ok.

[jhouse]

So how many people other than me flipped their laptops over?

[javafxnoob]

Originally Posted by jhouse

So how many people other than me flipped their laptops over?

I moved my head in unnatural position, does that count?

[jhouse]

lol yep