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Tomatoes. Blight resistant next to non resistant

paul.ramos66paul.ramos66 Posts: 7
in Fruit & veg
Hi, I have some Crimson Crush (blight resistant) tomato seedlings ready to transplant into my allotment along with some other mainly heritage types. Does anyone have any experience with planting blight-resistant near non-blight resistant? Will the non put the resistant at greater risk? Thanks. 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hello @paul.ramos66 and welcome to the forum  :)

    In the past I have grown Sungold and Crimson Crush in pots in a row  ... none of my tomatoes succumbed to blight that year. 

    I didn't grow Crimson Crush last year ... I wish I had ... I lost my entire crop of 20+ heavily fruiting plants ... this year I'm growing Crimson Crush along with Losetto and also the Roma which came free with GW.  The Losetto and Roma are also said to have some resistance to blight, so fingers crossed.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I presume you mean transfer to a g/h, because it is too early for tomatoes to be outside.
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  • paul.ramos66paul.ramos66 Posts: 7
    Yes, I did mean g/h @punkdoc and thanks @Dovefromabove. When I get them in the ground, I don't what to put the crimson crush at unnecessary risk by planting non-blight resistant varieties nearby. Sorry, I did a right ham-fisted job of explaining my question. 
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    edited April 2022
    I have planted crimson crush with non-resistant varieties. They all got blight ( it was a bad year), but the crimson crush got quite close to the end of the season before they succumbed. I think it will make them more likely to get it eventually, because if there’s blight about ( which there will be if it’s a damp season), then your other varieties will manufacture more blight spores if they catch it. I’ve stopped growing crimson crush because I wasn’t impressed with the flavour. More recently, I have found that the best preventative method against blight on tomato plants is to try really hard to keep the leaves dry at all times. If they aren’t wet the blight can’t thrive. Obviously, no good for outside tomatoes, but very careful watering so as not to splash the leaves makes a very big difference. I sow only for flavour now and I rarely see blight until right at the end of the season even though our area is terrible for it - West Wales - very wet. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2022
    There are better tasting toms than C. Crush it's true ... but of the blight resistant 'salad size' ones it's the best I've found so far.  I found the flavour is improved if roasted, but that's true of most toms.

    Losetto are supposed to have good flavour ... fingers crossed   https://www.simplyseed.co.uk/tomato-seeds/f1-losetto.html

    I grow all my tomatoes outside. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • paul.ramos66paul.ramos66 Posts: 7
    Great tips @Emerion thanks. And, interesting you've already done and tested what I was intending to do. 

  • paul.ramos66paul.ramos66 Posts: 7
    @Dovefromabove I've been reading about Losetto. Might try and get some. I don't think it's too late to start from seed. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    paul.ramos66 said:
    @Dovefromabove I've been reading about Losetto. Might try and get some. I don't think it's too late to start from seed. 
    I only started mine today ... go for it  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    I too have grown the Crimson type tomatoes alongside others. They became a bit blighty but I still had a good crop. Losetto were less resistant, I found, ditto Shimmer, but not too bad. I am growing all of the above, plus Summerlast and Mountain Magic this year, as well as some not so blight resistant ones. Fingers crossed it's not a blighty year.
  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
    Last year I grew Crimson Crush, Crimson Blush (a beefsteak variety) outdoors and Crimson Cocktail in the the Greenhouse.
    Despite an indifferent summer here in the SW, I had no blight, and a large crop which were turned into chutney, passata etc.  
    I gave up on other varieties because of the disappointment of losing a whole crop to blight on several occasions.
    I have to say I have been pleased and impressed with taste and reliability of the Crimson cultivars.
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