In this video Jack from The Survival Podcast (http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com) discusses tomato blight and other common tomato diseases and some ways to de…
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Thank you for the helpful video! It turns out it’s blight all over my tomato plants, but I had no idea the dead leaves hanging down were responsible for creating and spreading the blight. It should have dawned on me a few days after the leaves started dying, the tomatoes changed color. I didn’t put two and two together. This is the WORST thing ever. It can completely wipe out a tomato garden. Serenade seems to be the solution- now to find out if any Pennsylvania stores sell it.
Don’t listen to these 9 yr olds. You look fine buddy. Thanks for the video! This one explained blight to me better than any other video. I’m a new subscriber because of it. Thanks man.
Hate speech violation? Hell he is insulting me and I don’t give a shit why should you? There is no such thing as hate speech or hate crime just another load of bullshit sold to the tea cup generation. The fact is I was fat here, in the last few years I have lost almost 100 pounds, my weight was temporary his ignorance is permanent, but seriously it ain’t “hate speech” don’t buy into how the establishment is selling you on policing thought.
hate speech violation and a testament to your intelligence
Good point
That makes sense, but these germs must be all over the place so maybe it’s the health of the plant that determines whether it will get sick or not.
This is just my second year of gardening, but I this year for the first week or so when I planted my starts I sprayed everything with pre-mixed compost tea from the hydroponic store. my plants have been really strong too. Plus I gave them organic fertilizer and rock dust mineralizer treatment in the soil.
A master gardener once told me to destroy tomato clippings and not use them for mulch or composting. Something bad in them I guess?
We used to get blight on our tomatoes… till I started laying landscape cloth down after planting the tomatoes. Water at the base and the landscape cloth keeps the soil from touching the leaves. At least for our area that’s solved out type off blight.
Dumbfucks like you really make my day. You insult my weight but I lost over 90 pounds since I shot this video. I am not thin and still smart, you are now whatever you are and an insulting dumbass. See being overweight is something pretty easy to cure, being stupid, not so much.
early blight is simple – cut off some leaves/branches and baking soda solution will take care of the rest. if u have a super huge healthy plant with a few blighted branches ont he bottom it shouldnt be a problem. weve had that and still yielded tons of tomatoes while cutting branches, spraying soda solution or neem, problem goes away, tomatoes keep producing. But u have to stay on top of it and not catch it too late
Thanks for showing that you can be a survivalist (I’m just a gardener), and not follow the nut-cases as gurus!
@John, yes water can spread blight but it lives in the soil and once in the soil will infect any tomato or potato planted in said soil until it is eliminated. So while water splashing can exasperate the issue, it won’t solve the problem in and of itself. By the way “Marvin Steiner” is on some weird stupid witch hunt with all videos by all people about this subject. I worthless troll not really worthy of further response.
I work at the Maine Ext office so i know a bit about this topic. Systemic diseases affect the entire plant and occur only in certain areas of the country. The best-known ones are verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt, root knot nematode disease, and tobacco mosaic virus. with foliar diseases(such as late blight), the spores are spread by splashing water, insects, wind, and human contact. During rainy weather or overhead irrigation, spores quickly spread the disease through the patch.
The ignorance you show is humorous. First there are about a dozen on the plant in its current pitiful state, that alone shows something about productivity of a cherry tomato. Next a few weeks before this was filmed the plant was full and lush. This is why I showed two plants one treated and one not treated. No go back to being an armchair asscrack who runs his mouth and accomplishes nothing. You are now banned from my channel.
First it is a systemic issue, enters through the roots and effects the entire system. Once infected a plant remains infected. You can knock it back, slow it down etc but you can’t get rid of it. Second you are clearly full of yourself and would do well to remember posting youtube comments in a mouthy fashion requires little courage and less intelligence.
I think you hit the nail on the head – you’re the last person to tell anyone about blight as you sit in front of your sick and dying tomato plants. Please do some research on the topic before misleading others. Blight is not a systemic disease.
You said you got 150 cherry tomatoes off that 2′ tall spindly plant. Highly unlikely.
Shoot plane down… Just kidding! :-O
You don’t want to just toss the infected branches around like he did, and composting might not kill the fungus. You are just spreading the fungus. Put them in a plastic bag AS YOU CUT and throw them in the garbage. Best thing he can do with the containers is get rid of the soil, sanitize the containers and start over with new, sterile potting soil. I heard laying clear plastic over the soil in beds when its tilled will help, but you have to repeat several times after turning the soil.
I heard one teaspoon of baking soda in one quart of water does the trick also. Use a hand-held sprayer to apply. I am going to try it.
I got blight bad this year but I didn’t know what it was. Thanks for sharing.
it enters via the soil but it is in the plant once the plant is infected
you mix it with water, it is concentrated