Tomato disease identification is quite difficult, if you want or need to know exactly which disease is affecting your tomato plants. is probably more important than knowing exactly what it is. plants and fallen leaves from those plants need to be gathered up and destroyed as soon as possible before they infect the rest of your tomato plants or indeed, other plants in your garden .
However, if your tomatoes and the leaves, stems and fruits look normal and blemish free and everything is growing at the rate and the timescale that you expect, then your tomatoes are probably completely free of disease. plants display any of the following symptoms, there is probably something wrong:
- Leaves develop spots on either side
- Leaves turn yellow
- Leaves wilt
- Leaves wither and die
- Spots on leaves increase in size
- Strangely shaped blemishes appear on leaves
- Black or brown patches appear on stems
- Cankers appear on stems
- Mold grows on stems
- Spots appear on stems
- Tomatoes have dark brown blemishes at flower end
- Tomatoes drop off plant before ripening
- Tomatoes have discolored patches
- Sticky patches with small white flecks appear on leaves.
There is a lot of these signs, there & # 39; s every chance that your tomato plants have some sort of disease so do not forget to destroy the offending plant immediately as well as any debris on the ground around it.
