Tomato wilt

[catman529]

Had to pull one of my Amish Paste the other day. It had been stunted for a couple weeks, not growing and not as green as the rest. you may also notice some of the leaves were stripped from a hornworm a while back. I don't think that is related at all.

Finally a few days ago, I noticed it was wilted all over. After a couple days of not getting better, I pulled it and tossed it.

I didn't take a picture, but the base of the stem near the soil was brown, and the inside of the stem also had a lot of brown. It appeared there may have been a cut in the stem too - maybe the disease got in through the cut.

Research on the great Google has me leaning toward bacterial wilt or southern blight. It doesn't resemble verticillium or fusarium because the leaves didn't really turn yellow.

Anyone else got any thoughts?


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[WTM]

i cant pull up the pic, but from your description it could be either. take a look at this publication which describes the various tomato wilt problems and see if the pics and description.(this pub can be found in the forum topic "garden info" that i posted a week ago.

https://extension.tennessee.edu/publica ... P370-C.pdf

as i said in an earlier post about heat and tomatoes, unless they are heat and various disease resistant they dont do well much above 90 deg f with high humidity. if it is bacterial wilt then its in the soil and can last for years so make sure that plant gets discarded in the trash and not in your compost pile.

 

[catman529]

i cant pull up the pic, but from your description it could be either. take a look at this publication which describes the various tomato wilt problems and see if the pics and description.(this pub can be found in the forum topic "garden info" that i posted a week ago.

https://extension.tennessee.edu/publica ... P370-C.pdf

as i said in an earlier post about heat and tomatoes, unless they are heat and various disease resistant they dont do well much above 90 deg f with high humidity. if it is bacterial wilt then its in the soil and can last for years so make sure that plant gets discarded in the trash and not in your compost pile.

That's the same publication I read that leaned me toward bacterial wilt or southern blight.

I can't say the heat is hurting any of the other tomatoes... they are all healthy and pumping out lots of fruit.

 

[WTM]

i can see the pic now, yeah that could be bad if it spreads to your other plants and hopefully it wont since you yanked the plant, which was a wise choice and you know to trash it and not to throw it in the compost pile. yeah indeterminates are less susceptible than determinates. my romas and mariglobes look like crap but the beefmasters are doing ok, no tomatoes yet though.

i like the florida weave you have, never used it for tomatoes but have used it for sugar snaps.

are those amish paste pretty good producers? i may try some instead of determinate romas next year.

 

[catman529]

i can see the pic now, yeah that could be bad if it spreads to your other plants and hopefully it wont since you yanked the plant, which was a wise choice and you know to trash it and not to throw it in the compost pile. yeah indeterminates are less susceptible than determinates. my romas and mariglobes look like crap but the beefmasters are doing ok, no tomatoes yet though.

i like the florida weave you have, never used it for tomatoes but have used it for sugar snaps.

are those amish paste pretty good producers? i may try some instead of determinate romas next year.

the Amish paste are putting on a decent amount of green fruit. I picked one early red one but am still waiting for the main crop to start ripening. They seem to be good producers so far.


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