Tomato Blight

[Millymollymandy]

I've found GD succumb to blight just like any others.

[Spuddle]

Gee, thanks MMM!!!
Here was me thinking I might have cracked it!

I grow cherry carbon and the plant has no infectiion

Haven't heard of cherry carbon, Durgan, but might try to find it.

Actually, considering that the weather here on Exmoor last winter was more like Canada than France, I wonder if that has anything to do with why cherries caught blight in France but not in Canada?

[Durgan]

Gee, thanks MMM!!!
Here was me thinking I might have cracked it!

I grow cherry carbon and the plant has no infectiion

Haven't heard of cherry carbon, Durgan, but might try to find it.

Actually, considering that the weather here on Exmoor last winter was more like Canada than France, I wonder if that has anything to do with why cherries caught blight in France but not in Canada?

Sorry about the nomenclature. It is called Black Cherry, even my partner likes it.
Black Cherry Tomato

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?LZLEW 26 August 2009 Black Cherry Tomato
Most of the cherry type tomatoes have been grown over the years, and this Black Cherry Tomato is the best. The fruit is dark, very tasty, and the fruit is a good size, skin is thin. Everybody in my vicinity likes them. There are two plants in the garden, and fruit growth is prolific more than enough for a family. The fruit is dark colored if fully ripe.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?XIZFD Black Cherry Tomato, Indeterminate
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[Millymollymandy]

Gee, thanks MMM!!!
Here was me thinking I might have cracked it!

Actually, considering that the weather here on Exmoor last winter was more like Canada than France, I wonder if that has anything to do with why cherries caught blight in France but not in Canada?

If you mean cold, it was very cold here in inland Brittany last winter. Whereas a lot of France is very cold every winter!

Everyone has different experiences with blight and toms, and I've found GD just succumbs like anything else. Including the ones planted in pots up against the house! However, as I reported in one of the several blight threads from this summer, Bordeaux Mix sprayed on the plants in pots controlled it to the point that the blight pretty much disappeared and I carried on picking healthy toms - well in fact they are still alive even after 5 frosts so far and still flowering (not GD, various other varieties). Just haven't got round to taking the plants to the tip yet and there's still a few green cherry toms lingering anyway......

Someone on this forum said that blight comes in on the wind from America which would explain why I never got it when I lived in SE France or in London, yet it comes every year to Brittany.

[Spuddle]

Thanks for the info, Durgan. Never tried black ones before but I tried some yellow ones this year and they tasted fine so I shall give these a try.

[Spuddle]

Yes, it was the coldest winter here for some years. I always thought it was warm in France - except for up in the mountains.

Someone on this forum said that blight comes in on the wind from America which would explain why I never got it when I lived in SE France or in London, yet it comes every year to Brittany.

That's what I heard, too. Which would explain why we get it here in the SW yet we didn't get it when we lived in Oxfordshire.

By the way, how come your quotes always state who wrote them but mine don't? Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

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my cherry varieties go down to it too - but nto as fast as the other vrieties - also i find that as cherry tomatoes dont take as long to get to maturity you stand a better chacne of harvesting before the lurgy strikes.

I took out my fantasio tomatose (a beefeater variety) weeks ago.. my others both cherries - sweet olive dn GD have blight but it was progressing slowly. I don't like to use bordeaux mix.

but now the plants are looking manky and some of the fruit is getting it.. so i am pulling them up.

October aint bad though.

[Millymollymandy]

Yes, it was the coldest winter here for some years. I always thought it was warm in France - except for up in the mountains.

Someone on this forum said that blight comes in on the wind from America which would explain why I never got it when I lived in SE France or in London, yet it comes every year to Brittany.

That's what I heard, too. Which would explain why we get it here in the SW yet we didn't get it when we lived in Oxfordshire.

By the way, how come your quotes always state who wrote them but mine don't? Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

Yes I know what you are doing wrong!

But first of all, it's warm to hot in France in summer, which means that it is mild to bloody freezing in winter. Apart from the coastal areas France has a much more continental climate than the tiny little island(s) that is the UK therefore it stands to reason that it is much colder in France in winter than the nice mild not far from the coast west country!

Now re. the quotes, what you are doing is to cut and paste and then put the quote marks around

like this

in the same way that you'd do italics or bold.

What you need to do is look at the person's posting that you wish to quote from and click on the quote button in the bottom right corner of their posting.

That'll put you in a reply screen with their posting inside it within quote marks. Then you can edit out the bits you don't want to refer to but make sure you leave the quote marks at either end because if you so much as delete one bracket [ you'll muck it up. Then type your reply after the quoted bit. Good luck!

[Spuddle]

What you need to do is look at the person's posting that you wish to quote from and click on the quote button in the bottom right corner of their posting.

That'll put you in a reply screen with their posting inside it within quote marks. Then you can edit out the bits you don't want to refer to but make sure you leave the quote marks at either end because if you so much as delete one bracket [ you'll muck it up. Then type your reply after the quoted bit. Good luck!

Got it! Thanks for your help MMM

PS It might be mild(ish) in most of SW England but I can tell you it was brass monkey weather up on the moor last winter.

[Millymollymandy]

Well done Spuddle and let's hope for a milder winter this year. And no blight next year!