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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => GARDENING AROUND THE HOUSE => Topic started by: AllenF on July 23, 2010, 10:34:00 pm

Title: Tomatoes dead
Post by: AllenF on July 23, 2010, 10:34:00 pm

I had one of the tomatoes lose all green color this week and today looked all but dead, so I cut it to toss it away and saw this white fuzz around the base of the plants.   Anybody got any ideas?

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I have pine straw mulch over the black weed mat.  The plants are 8 to 10 foot now.

Title: Re: Tomatoes dead
Post by: hardwood on July 23, 2010, 11:26:50 pm

Could be a mold or an aphid...several species of aphid create that fuzzy white stuff. Apple orchard aphids do it here to my tomatoes and peppers.

Scott

Title: Re: Tomatoes dead
Post by: BjornBee on July 24, 2010, 05:07:23 pm

Not sure what it is.

But I wanted to mention that it would be good not to plant the same crop next year in the same location. Tomatoes especially are susceptible to disease being passed from year to year from spores, etc.

Title: Re: Tomatoes dead
Post by: AllenF on July 24, 2010, 09:58:47 pm

I poured some bleach on it to kill whatever it was, I hope anyways.

Title: Re: Tomatoes dead
Post by: jgaito on July 24, 2010, 10:52:11 pm

not a good year for them.  way too hot.  never seen that though.
pull the root ball and burn it.   turn the soil a few times over the winter and plant something else there next year.

Title: Re: Tomatoes dead
Post by: kingfisherfd2 on July 04, 2011, 11:38:52 am

From the photos,  I would say that the plant had a serious case of powdery mildew.
I know that I'm late to this topic, but I thought I would ad my .02 
Added moisture to around the base of the plant, and a plant that  was already struggling with something made it more susceptible to attack.