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Septoria Leaf Spot can appear almost overnight. Material controls: Regalia, Copper, Cease. Letting plants freeze on soil surface kills LB spores.Ĭultural controls: Destroy cull potatoes & potato volunteers, avoid overhead irrigation. LB on tomatoes is not seed-borne and does not survive on dead tissue. Still later, hard crusty lesions form on fruits. Early in the season, late blight infection shows as roundish lesions on leaves that uniquely will cross the center vein of the leaf. Late Blight usually starts on the foliage of the plant. Do not compost affected plants as EB can overwinter even on dead tissue.Ĭultural controls: Rotation, avoid stressing plants, staking, minimize leaf wetness, mulching, indeterminate varieties are more resistant/tolerant, disinfect stakes & cages. Mulching deters EB by reducing rain splash on foliage. EB can be managed culturally should not result in significant crop loss. To ensure true-to-type seed, grow open-pollinated varieties and separate by 50 feet.Įarly Blight shows up as drying and dying leaves at the bottom of the plant. Rinse in a fine strainer and dry seeds on a coffee filter. Ferment uncovered for a few days until the slurry forms a moldy cap.

Saving Seed: Saving tomato seed is easy! Remove stem-end and crush the fully ripe fruit into a container. Organically and sustainably grown seed was rinsed with a sodium hypochlorite solution to reduce risk of seed-borne disease. Tomato experts Carolyn Male and Kokopelli’s Dominique Guillet both oppose pruning, arguing more abundant foliage provides more photosynthesis.

Indeterminate (Ind.) climbing varieties are customarily staked and pruned.

Determinate (Det.) bush varieties may be staked, should not be pruned.

Instead use generous amounts of well-rotted cow or horse manure or compost to boost plant vigor, and crushed eggshells or gypsum at the bottom of each hole for calcium. Avoid using fresh manure as it causes lush foliage with few ripe fruits. Transplant after frost danger has passed. Minimum germination soil temperature 60°, optimal range 75–90°.

9,000 seeds per oz, 0.1 gram pkt ~30 seeds, 0.2 gram pkt ~60 seeds, 0.5 gram pkt ~150 seeds.Ĭulture: Usually started indoors Feb–April.

Days to maturity are from date of transplanting.

Or use the forecast model /risk/tom_pot_map to assess potential for spore germination and lesion formation in your area.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension: Potato IPM bi-weekly tells where LB infections have been confirmed in Maine or the eastern United States, /potatoes, 1-888-USE-UMCE.

Most market growers and many home gardeners now grow at least a portion of their tomatoes in high tunnels, which greatly reduces vulnerability though still requires vigilance.

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If you choose to spray, have a plan and materials on hand, so you can make quick and timely application(s) when conditions indicate.

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Plant in areas with full sun and few wind blocks.Click here for more potato-related late blight info. Purchase only new certified disease-free seed potatoes. Do not use saved potatoes as seed stock.Grow your own tomato plants or buy locally grown seedlings.Try to find tolerant cultivars-use anecdotal evidence and experiment.Where possible, use resistant varieties.Once LB lesions develop on your plants take immediate action to halt the disease in hopes of salvaging a crop. or not wind-borne spores can travel hundreds of miles on storm fronts, but also can be baked into submission by the hot sun. Cool temperatures, moist conditions, still air and lack of sunshine favor sporulation spores can occur and advance in any condition of high humidity. Dry conditions spare us some years, but late blight is here to stay, especially for field-grown crops.