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Tomato issue

FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
in Fruit & veg
Morning All

these tomatoes have been like this a while so it’s not blight as plants and other all the other tomatoes on them are happy.

Do you think this is sun scorch? They are outside and these 2 plants are in a particularly warm spot. The larger tomato started off like the green ones but obviously decay has set it now.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Very likely sunscorch as you say.
    Some of my autumn raspberries look similar.
    With the heat over the last few days they've probably been par-boiled :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Great, thanks. I also have a couple of white areas on a couple of my raspberries which I assumed was heat .... feeling pretty scorched myself and for the most part have stayed by the fan! 🥵
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    It looks like potato blight to me. A common problem with growing tomatoes outside. It is an air born fungal disease for which there is no cure apart from growing the tomatoes under glass.
    Potato blight in endemic here in Cornwall so I only grow tomatoes under glass, I had some spare plants this year so have put them in their pots, inside the fruit cage  which is in a very sheltered corner of the garden. So far so good but there is still plenty of time for them to succumb.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    If it is blight you should notice black bruises on leaf stems and/or the main stem.
    If you have a pic of the affected plant we may be able to advise better

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Blight is a pain but it’s definitely not blight. The plants and all other tomatoes are fine- the damaged tomatoes in the picture have been on the vine for weeks like that, if it was blight the plant would be dead by now- Or at least we’ll on it’s way- I’ve had blight before in a different garden.
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