Septoria

[gunslingor]

Hey guys. I got 6 mortgage lifter tomatoe plants that are 9 feet tall, 6 pink fang tomatoes that are 6 feet tall and I just planted some baby roma tomatoes, 5 of them.

I had a hard time finding romas, I have ten plants, 2 from here, 2 from there, 1 surviving from that place, the 5 I bought of a guy.

The 5 I bought of the guy had the brown circles, I didn't know what it was and trusted him. All his plants had it in his greenhouse.

I ended up planting only 1 out 5 from that guy, the other 4 are sitting near my spice garden away.

It's been raining 3 days now, I notices the spots had moved from the 1 plant to all 5 of the baby romas. I researched and cut all leaves with spots tossing far from house.

Also saw some dead leaves in my mortgage lifters on the bottom, pail and dead the entire leaf but no spots. I removed those. My mortgage lifter and pink fang are packed too tightly, need to fix that this weekend but much work, such tall plants, cheap green tomatoe cage... gonna try to reinforce with bamboo.

Anyway, long story short, did this price knowingly spread a terrible disease to my garden? What else should I do, hate to use a funguside, had no sign of fungus on plants till this... so far only brown spots on the baby romas, but I am pretty sure it spread from 1 to the other 4 I got from elsewhere... actually only 3 got it, thst one thst didn't might be a the hybrid, PA or something.

Any help appreciated... trying to make sure this doesn't become a problem, it's funny you make one mistake and everything is ruined... brought a new disease to your garden... bought hey for mulch thst was more seed that straw and caused a carpet of grass... endless, lol.

 

[Chuck]

We need close-up pictures. It could be fungal or it could be bacterial. Without pictures all anyone can do is present wild guesses.

 

[gunslingor]

Okay, your right, sorry, new to dis.my giant 9 foot tomatoes in 7 foot cages are tilting, cheap green garbage, trying to reinforce with 6ft bambo. Any tips on that appreciated as well. As I do this I'll separate plants so they get more lighting and fertile with fox farm high P.

Here are the other 5 babies that might be infected, should I trash these, any chance of it spreading to anything it is near... these are the only tomatoes in the area but there are peppers.

These are the 5 romas I planted, I planted 1 from the infected batch, the tiny one now because I cut off all spots and brown... it rained hard in ga and i notice spots had moved to all except 1, the spots skipped the biggest plant, hopped over it, Roma III I think it is from some amazon store. there is still a tiny bit of spots on some, i removed a lot, do I need to remove everything? I don't want them infecting the giant tomatoes which are like 3 feet away.

And now for my giant children I am trying to protect from my diseased newborns, lol. Teo rows too close together, gonna fix that while reinforcing somehow. 6 big pink fang tomatoes and 6 mortgage lifter monsters... I want to see how high I can get them, about 9 feet now, going for 40! Lol.

only tomatoe I noticed with brown, is t end rot? What to do, junk it?

All input appreciated, first garden in 35 years since the age of 8.

 

[Chuck]

I believe you are correct in your assessment of Septoria Leaf Spot. At first I thought Alternia Leaf Spot but what your plants show, IMO, is not Alternia but in fact is Septoria.This fungus likes a warm, moist, humid environment and this looks to be that. When I first looked at the pictures my first impression was "these plants are growing in a weed patch". Septoria also like weeds and tall grass. It is possible to contain the disease with copper sprays or with chemicals like Mancozeb or Chlorothalonil but I wouldn't bet on it in your environment. Heavily mulching the areas around your containers will keep the grass and weeds down. Growing any plant close to that much weed and grass will be challenging not only for fungus but also for insect vectors of bacterial diseases and of viruses. And yes, that is Blossom End Rot. You can leave the fruit on the plant and when ripe cut the affected part away but I usually just pull and toss the affected fruit.