Tomato disease identification

[jzigbe]

Can someone please help me identify the disease shown in the attached image. It is affecting all my tomatoes.
How can I eradicate this disease?
Are these tomatoes still edible?
Thanks.
I am in Nairobi, Kenya.

[mdvpc]

This is as close as I can come, there are many more folks here much better than I am on disease issue, hopefully they will chime in.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/v...otton_leak.jpg

[Heritage]

jzigbe,

Google "tomato gold fleck" and see if the symptoms look similar to yours. I see similar, although not as severe, cases late in the season and always assumed it was spider mites feeding on the fruit. However, the latest I've read seems to place the cause more on plant stress and not insect damage. The degree of damage may also be partly genetic. If gold fleck is the problem, the fruit are still edible, just not very pretty.

Good luck,
Steve

[Cole_Robbie]

Good call I think about it being gold fleck:

http://www.semena.org/agro/diseases/...necrosis-e.htm

Fruit Pox and Gold Fleck: Although these disorders commonly occur on the same fruit they are distinct, and susceptibility to both is genetically inherited. Their development is thought to be more severe when the fruit is exposed to high temperatures and the plant and fruit are growing rapidly. However, more work is still needed to fully understand the cause. Tomato varieties differ greatly in their susceptibility, with some varieties developing only a few lesions or gold flecks, while others develop many. Control:
Use varieties that are tolerant to these genetic disorders.

[jzigbe]

Thanks guys. Maybe the high temperatures we were experiencing led to that.