Help with my tomatoes

fitzcoff

Hi,

Hope someone can help me, I've attached some photos of my tomatoes, some of the tomatoes have spots on them.

I'm not sure what's wrong with them and I am hoping that someone out there can tell me if they are a write off or is there some hope for them

The spots are not on all the tomatoes but they are on either side of the bushes.

Thanks in advance for any help

brian_t

I think you have Ghost spot.
I've never got it myself but apparently the fruit is perfectly edible.

http://www.negreenhouseupdate.info/index.php/diseases/319-greenhouse-tomato-botrytis-ghost-spot

http://www.tomatogrowing.co.uk/html/tomato_split___ghost_spot.html

http://www.garden.ie/askgerry_answers.aspx?id=2729

fitzcoff

Thanks for that Brian, those links were very helpful.

I was afraid that all the tomatoes were wasted on me.

Just waiting on them to go red now. Only 1 so far

Corsendonk

Yes Ghostspot, purely visual defect, tomatoes are perfectly fine, caused by too much humidity on the surface of the tomato. Give the toms more potassium to speed up the ripening.

Mr.Triffid

Wow, you're lucky my tomatos are still only flowering, lousy summer weather.

fitzcoff

Mr.Triffid wrote: »

Wow, you're lucky my tomatos are still only flowering, lousy summer weather.

I know, we haven't have the tomatoes that we had last year, my peppers and chillis have done nothing this year, really slow to grow, they are not even 6 inches tall yet.

ah well less recipes for me this year