Westi
Blight!
Moderators: KG Steve, Chantal, Tigger, peter
-
Westi
- KG Regular
- Posts: 6549
- Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:46 pm
- Location: Christchurch, Dorset
- Has thanked: 1671 times
- Been thanked: 618 times
Just when I thought I was going to have a clear year it struck on my toms. Luckily the potatoes are all up so OK there. I didn't get an e-mail from Blight Watch so I'm assuming they also expected the spuds to be up or foliage depleted so less risk. The perfect opportunity to try the famous chutney then.
Westi
Westi
Westi
-
Nature's Babe
- KG Regular
- Posts: 2468
- Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:02 pm
- Location: East Sussex
Shame the early warning failed you Westi, next year I think I will only grow them undercover again, tamarillo, tomatillo and cape gooseberries will survive outdoors without siuccumbing to blight. The late summer conditions seem to inevitably favour blight which seems to arrive at the critical time when we should be getting sunshine to ripen the fruits. Damp / drizzle here today, with similar forecast for next week.
Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconcieved notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
By Thomas Huxley
http://www.wildrye.info/reserve/
By Thomas Huxley
http://www.wildrye.info/reserve/
-
Primrose
- KG Regular
- Posts: 8096
- Joined: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:50 pm
- Location: Bucks.
- Has thanked: 47 times
- Been thanked: 324 times
I was congratulating myself on a clear run free of blight this year when I spotted this morning two of my 25 plants had suddenly been struck with it. I swear it has hit almost overnight because I've been inspecting them so regularly. Was hoping to leave the fruit on the plants a few days longer to ripen because so many of them are still green, but have now havested them all in the hope of saving them. Have washed them all but can anybody tell me whether this is likely to have been effective in possibly keeping the disease from affecting them?
-
Westi
- KG Regular
- Posts: 6549
- Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:46 pm
- Location: Christchurch, Dorset
- Has thanked: 1671 times
- Been thanked: 618 times
I washed the ones I saved as well but the blight soon started to appear in a couple of days and all but a handful succumbed. Perhaps the answer is something like Milton maybe to wash them in first? I was pretty gutted as they were a great size.
Westi
Westi
Westi
-
oldherbaceous
- KG Regular
- Posts: 14432
- Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 pm
- Location: Beautiful Bedfordshire
- Has thanked: 711 times
- Been thanked: 709 times
Dear Westi, i'm sure Chantal tried this, to no avail, where is the old girl when we need her.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There's no fool like an old fool.
-
Primrose
- KG Regular
- Posts: 8096
- Joined: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:50 pm
- Location: Bucks.
- Has thanked: 47 times
- Been thanked: 324 times
When I recently noticed that some G.Delight & Black Cherry tomato plants had been hit by blight, I harvested all my remaining tomatoes to try & save the crop but I wonder what other people would have done, in the interest of science.
Next in the row of plants were a number of Ferlines which are supposed to be blight resistant. I'm wondering now whether I should have left some of them on the plant to test their blight resistance properties. In the end I pulled all the plants out & destroyed them but wonder whether I should have left them in for a few days to check how the Ferline plants responded. Would there have been any purpose in doing this or would it have just increased the risk of blight spores building up in the soil?
Next in the row of plants were a number of Ferlines which are supposed to be blight resistant. I'm wondering now whether I should have left some of them on the plant to test their blight resistance properties. In the end I pulled all the plants out & destroyed them but wonder whether I should have left them in for a few days to check how the Ferline plants responded. Would there have been any purpose in doing this or would it have just increased the risk of blight spores building up in the soil?
-
Westi
- KG Regular
- Posts: 6549
- Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:46 pm
- Location: Christchurch, Dorset
- Has thanked: 1671 times
- Been thanked: 618 times
Weird
Trimming back the neetles near the compost and saw a red flash - totally unblighted cherry tom laden with fruit. I appreciate that some of the plant was protected by the neetles so no spores landed but 1/2 of it was standing clear behind the neetles and was clean as a whistle. This all being within about 5 feet of where the contaminated crop was.
Lucky Westi
Trimming back the neetles near the compost and saw a red flash - totally unblighted cherry tom laden with fruit. I appreciate that some of the plant was protected by the neetles so no spores landed but 1/2 of it was standing clear behind the neetles and was clean as a whistle. This all being within about 5 feet of where the contaminated crop was.
Lucky Westi
Westi