Diseases Found In Tomato Plants

Botrytis ghost spot, Sally Miller photo

In this photo you will see small, darker green spots on these tomatoes. These spots are a disease called Botrytis.

Buckeye Rot

Buckeye Rot

timber rot on tomato

This is a photo of timber rot on a tomato plant.

timber rot, sclerotia inside tomato stem
This comes along with the timber rot. It is called Sclerotinia. The small black seed like figures you see inside the stem are the Sclerotia. This is a soil born disease and can stay in your soil for as many as 10 years or longer.

early blight in high tunnel tomatoes

What you see in this photo is called Early Blight.

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