Late Blight

[Nature]

Thank you big box stores for selling tons of plants to people and spreading this disease around everywhere.

I pulled up the 6th affected tomatoes plant today. These plants are over six feet tall with green tomatoes on them, and I can't do anything about it to save them. I'm expecting to lose the rest of my plants as well because I've already removed a few random leaves here and there that I know have the same black lesions with spores on them.

I'm so bummed. I grew these plants from seed. They're 6 1/2 months old. I babied them and walked them from the house to the yard multiple times a day. (it takes a long time to do that with over 50 tomato plants LOL)

I wanted to share my sadness with people that understand.

[Buzzer Beater]

Oh I do understand losing the tommies!
I'm so sorry. Two years ago we lost almost all of ours to hail in late July... I stood in the living room crying, watching the carnage. You can't just head to the grocery and replace all that...

[Dandelionkid]

That's awful All that hard work. I would be sick about it.

[Quirky]

I'm so sorry. I've grown all mine from seed too and am just living in dread that the blight is going to get them....I feel your pain.

[Quirky]

Update -- I've got it too.

[janey99]

Sadly, me too. All my heirlooms I grew from seed - 35 plants. I went out this morning and took all the green tomatoes I could find with no lesions, dipped them in 10 percent bleach solution and washed them with soap and water. They're on a card table in my living room (ironically enough, on the same table and in the same spot that I started the plants from seed in late winter.).

I found that Eva's Purple Ball and Mr. Stripy seemed to have less damage. Also, many of the Romas seem OK, and the cherry tomatoes, all varieties, are still producing healthy tomatoes.

I put a few pink tomatoes and apples on the table.

We'll see if any of them ripen.

Tuesday I'll go out and bag all the plants.

Jane