This is my first year growing Paul Robeson although I've eaten the fruits before and they are very good. This year I started 2 plants, each grown in different zones, and they were the first two plants to get sick. They started-off looking fantastic but one is already a goner and this one seems like it's on it's way out....it's been struggling for months. Everything including this plant got hit with powdery mildew a while back but everything has responded to serenade and daconil. Also, the ripe tomatoes are not very dark...much lighter than my trifeles and bc's. Can stress or illness make a dark tomato lighter? I would imagine so. It hasn't been particularly hot here either.
I photographed a nearly ripe specimen next to a sweet 100 for color reference. It's lighter but has a bit more brownish-orange going on. The taste of the first two fruits, harvested after the plant started looking pretty sorry, was very bold and tomatoey, but not sweet and rich as expected. Very earthy, but too assertive for my liking...almost as if the sugars didn't develop properly. Attached are photos of the foliage, fruit, and juice which is seems strangely pink to my eye...not much green gel to be found. Please chime in with any diagnoses.
#1- leaf from bottom of plant
#2- middle
#3- new growth- coming out "sick" (i believe the whitish solid is dry daconil....super gloopy from the diluted ready-to-spray bottle)
#4 fruit + sweet 100
#5 splotchy ripenening and very light juice- indicative of any paricular disease?
thanks guys.
