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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jun 3, 2019 22:57:53 GMT -5
A friend on another forum. Tomatoes are planted in pots(too small in my opinion)
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 4, 2019 7:03:22 GMT -5
Looks rotten inside. Could be caused by insect bites allowing pathogens inside but without seeing the plant itself, it's hard to tell.
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Post by octave1 on Jun 4, 2019 7:10:25 GMT -5
What am I supposed to look at?
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jun 4, 2019 8:12:07 GMT -5
What am I supposed to look at? The squishy spot front and center.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 4, 2019 8:19:59 GMT -5
Late blight causes spots sort of like that but since we can't see the leaves, we can't know if there is a blight disease.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jun 4, 2019 8:40:57 GMT -5
I can probably post the other picture late today. Things to do before it gets unbearable first though.
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Post by paulf on Jun 4, 2019 9:42:48 GMT -5
Looks like a bruise. It needs to be cut open to really tell. The dried out leaves look like a blight condition.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jun 4, 2019 9:53:19 GMT -5
Looks like a bruise. It needs to be cut open to really tell. The dried out leaves look like a blight condition. Repeatable condition but I agree a blight is possible.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 4, 2019 10:26:59 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a kind of disease. I don't know exactly what it is, but I have that same problem sometimes with late-season tomatoes.
They go bad inside while still on the plant, usually just as they start to ripen. (I'm not sure whether the ripening process allows the rot to progress faster, or the rot triggers the plant to try to mature the seeds before the fruit is destroyed.) There are usually no marks, spots, or external lesions, and typically no physical damage except damage from sucking insects like stink-bugs or leaf-footed bugs. Usually only some of the fruits are affected, but as the season progresses the percentage of fruit affected can get pretty high.
I've wondered whether the leaf-footed bugs are spreading a pathogen into the fruits, since only some of the fruits go bad even when the plants are covered with leaf disease. Yet many of the tomatoes that have been heavily fed on by sucking insects don't get the rot.
So I am interested in what the experts have to say.
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Post by octave1 on Jun 4, 2019 12:25:15 GMT -5
Sunscald or a virus, I would not know which one.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jun 4, 2019 15:55:36 GMT -5
A larger picture.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 4, 2019 18:04:32 GMT -5
That plant does not really look diseased to me. If it is only one tomato then I would say that a pathogen was introduced into the tomato by some insect but pathogens can also enter through cracks at the stem end.
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Post by octave1 on Jun 4, 2019 21:38:21 GMT -5
Two tomato plants in the same pot?
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Post by paquebot on Jun 4, 2019 21:43:32 GMT -5
One thing that can be ruled out is any type of blight. Definitely nothing wrong with the foliage pf those plants in the full picture.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jun 4, 2019 22:58:45 GMT -5
The consensus on the barbecue forum was sun scald.
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Post by paquebot on Jun 4, 2019 23:26:20 GMT -5
The consensus on the barbecue forum was sun scald. Agree! Martin The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 5, 2019 6:50:12 GMT -5
Two tomato plants in the same pot? Definitely two small for 2 plants and they will be crowded and compete for nutrients but I don't think that is the problem. I am sticking with an internal rot. I also thought of sunscald but that usually has a more whitish, leathery appearance on the skin. That looks rotten on the inside to me.
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Post by bestofour on Sept 6, 2019 15:40:31 GMT -5
Is this blight!
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 6, 2019 19:38:15 GMT -5
That is really ugly bestofour, but I do not know what it is. Late Blight on the fruits looks like leathery sunken brownish areas. It does not look anything like that.
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Post by octave1 on Sept 6, 2019 21:11:51 GMT -5
bestofour, to me that looks like sunscald getting rotten,
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Post by bestofour on Sept 7, 2019 18:54:07 GMT -5
Guess there's no way to prevent sunscald except covering things up.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 7, 2019 19:46:08 GMT -5
Normally the leaves of the plant protect the tomatoes from sunscald.
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