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Tomato Disease Identification

You are here because you think something is wrong with your tomato plants and hope to find consultation with tomato disease identification. Hopefully you have followed all tomato advises, planting your tomatoes among carrots and similar tips. You probably know that the tomato is fairly resistant to diseases but also know that is still possible that disasters still might happen. Following will be three of the most common tomato disease identification and how to treat the disease.

Tomato disease identification - Early blight

While this disease only has dark markings under the leaves and slower growth as tomato disease identifications it is not a very big problem and fairly easy to handle, or even prevent. Try not to let the leaves to touch the ground and while watering be sure to water in a circle around the plant, not straight at it. The tomato disease identification, in form of dark spots, is actually fungus treated easily by removing infected leaves and spraying the plant, with its surrounding neighbours, with fungicide. The fungus gets on the leaves via soil touching the leaves, hence the earlier recommendation. Once infecting the leaves the fungus spread as spores and it is therefore it is important to also spray the surrounding plants so they wont start showing similar tomato disease identifications.

Tomato disease identification - Tomato spotted wilt virus

The tomato disease identification of this one is quite easy. For starters your plant will stop to grow and the younger leaves will change into a lighter shade of green, even pale if you want. Later both the leaves and the stalk will appear to have small rings and markings on it of a purplish colour. Another tomato disease identification is that the fruit might appear miscoloured and full of nasty blotches. By the end the plant will most probably fall over and die. As there is no cure for this disease you can not help your plant once showing any of these tomato disease identifications, but you can save the rest of your plantation. Only spread through Thrips and Aphids, a generous spraying with insecticide will ensure the safety of all your other tomatoes.

Tomato disease identification - Bacterial wilt

If your plants suddenly has halted in growth or even fallen over on their sides it might be bacterial wilt. Peel away a bit from the stalk just above the ground, if the stalk leaks and the centre appear to be hollow or brown in colour there are not much you can do. These are the tomato disease identifications for bacterial wilt and I am truly sorry to say that there is nothing you can do to prevent or cure it. Just remove the plant with roots and everything and pray that you won’t see this tomato disease identification on any other of your plants. Being bacterium in the soil this disease attacks from the bottom, beginning with the roots. There is no way you could have foreseen it.

 

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