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potato panic!

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:25 am
by Doctor Deb
Have taken some photos of diseased leaves on my first early pots. grown in bags in the green house then put outside last week. Sadly, have lost the cable to upload pics to website again, so I'll try to describe it! :? Leaves ar mottled with a silvery brown colour. Not covering entire leaf. Doesn't look at all like pictures of blight I've been looking at on the web, and It seems a bit early to be blight. My haulms all got blight later in the year last year, but the potatoes were unaffected. any ideas? :idea:

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:35 pm
by Doctor Deb
Could it be nutrient deficiency? Sorry i can't get pictures uploaded- have spent all day fretting about potatoes and searching house for the lead to connect camera to computer1 Beginning to feel that buying spuds and binning modern technology might be the actions of a sane person!

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:28 pm
by oldherbaceous
Dear Doctor Deb, it might not be a disease, some leaves seem to react like this when they have been grown inside then brought out into the sunlight, especially if watered when the sun is very hot.
If the new leaves are not afected there shouldn't be a problem.

Don't worry too much. :) :wink: