Poll: Most significant tomato disease (for you)

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What have been the most significant tomato pathogens for you?

Please note that results are sorted by decreasing number of votes received.

Alternaria (including early blight), Phytophthora (including late blight), and/or Sclerotium (including Southern blight)
20
38%
Septoria
9
17%
Botrytis (Gray Mold), Pithium (post-transplant), and/or Sclerotinia (White Mold)
7
13%
Fusarium and/or Verticillium
4
8%
Viruses (Tomato Spotted Wilt, Tobacco Mosaic, Alfalfa Mosaic, Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit, Leaf Curl Virus, Curly Top, etc.)
4
8%
Powdery/downy mildew
3
6%
Anthracnose
2
4%
Bacterial Leaf Spot (Xanthomonas sp.), Bacterial Speck (Pseudomonas sp.), and/or Bacterial Canker (Clavibacter sp.)
2
4%
Other
2
4%
Tomato Big Bud (Candidatus sp.), and/or other phytoplasma issues
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 53

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#1

Post: # 65767Unread post Shule
Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:41 pm

I'm making this poll to run indefinitely. It shouldn't show who voted, but it should show the vote counts.

This is only for pathogen-related diseases (not for things like edema, BER, catfacing, etc.)

Edit: I mispelled Pythium as Pithium.
Last edited by Shule on Sat Mar 19, 2022 6:22 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Post: # 65773Unread post karstopography
Sat Mar 19, 2022 5:34 pm

Anthracnose, I have had this get my tomatoes, but it has been a couple of years.
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#3

Post: # 65774Unread post Cole_Robbie
Sat Mar 19, 2022 5:38 pm

Fusarium will overwinter on Johnson grass roots, especially under black plastic that isn't picked up in the fall, and do so well north of where such a thing is expected. That was my biggest lesson in tomato diseases.

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#4

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Sat Mar 19, 2022 5:50 pm

Never had anything other than late blight and botrytis here, the latter only being a problem in the greenhouse.

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#5

Post: # 65795Unread post Tormato
Sat Mar 19, 2022 9:29 pm

My most significant tomato disease is collecting and trialing thousands of varieties. There is no cure.

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Post: # 65837Unread post worth1
Sun Mar 20, 2022 12:53 pm

I have no idea what takes my tomato plants out.
Some kind of mold or fungus.
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Sun Mar 20, 2022 8:21 pm

worth1 wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 12:53 pm I have no idea what takes my tomato plants out.
Some kind of mold or fungus.
Mold to the junior prom, and fungus to the senior prom? :roll:

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Post: # 69149Unread post Torquill
Sat May 07, 2022 12:44 am

I was lucky enough to get the new strain of tomato pith necrosis (Pseudomonas mediterranea) in its first year in the U.S., approximately 2014. It took out a couple of plants, then next year I realized it was moving down the row by infecting my shears as I clipped tomatoes off the vine. By the third year most of my tomatoes collapsed just as the first fruit ripened, it killed my tomatillos stone dead (that's a feat!), and it stunted my zucchini so badly they never produced. I finally got a confirmation of the bacterial species from the state Ag Department when I brought a sample to them in Sacramento the following year.

The worst part: the Master Gardener Help Desk fielded a bunch of people who reported the same disease, and we figured it was because of the unusually cool and humid weather we were having. It wasn't until the end of the saga that I realized 90% of the people reporting the disease had bought seedlings from the Master Gardeners, of varieties I had supplied the seed for. I scrapped my seed library at that point, but my garden was so contaminated I had to switch to containers. I'm starting over in a different state now, and you can be sure I'll be exceptionally careful.

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Post: # 69198Unread post Shule
Sat May 07, 2022 12:59 pm

@Torquill
Oh, wow. That's no fun at all.
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Post: # 69265Unread post MissS
Sun May 08, 2022 10:35 am

@Torquill that's heartbreaking. I'm so sorry to hear that. The good news is that you are here in this forum where tomato seeds fly around everywhere come fall and winter. Also since you have experienced this, nobody is better than you here to identify this when members have it on their plants and nobody has an answer of what it is.
~ Patti ~

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Post: # 69287Unread post Torquill
Sun May 08, 2022 2:50 pm

Thanks for the sympathy.

And yeah, I think I could diagnose pith necrosis in my sleep now. Granted, it's caused by six different pathogens, with slightly different symptoms, but if I never have to see another tomato loaded with blushing fruit whose stems are folding over like wet cardboard, it'll be too soon.

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Thu May 12, 2022 2:26 am

The only actual disease problem I have is powdery mildew, which means my conditions are atypical. I have partial cover, so direct water is rare, which makes powdery mildew the only possible disease. Or so I thought. Now, with the rise of the insects, viruses will be more and more prevalent, last year I had for the first time an unknown virus, which caused the typical bad stunting and stiff tips, but also unusual swelling of the pedicel, which does not correspond to any description I can find.

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Post: # 69499Unread post mama_lor
Thu May 12, 2022 2:30 am

Torquill, interesting about the pith necrosis. I saw soemthing that looks like it in gardens around the area, no idea which strain, on tomatoes, with those odd cracks in the stem and little roots coming out in great numbers, but also on eggplants that turn to mush inside. Never saw a tomato plant die yet of it, luckily.

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