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June 24, 2012 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Iowa
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Is this a blight?
I have never had any problem with disease with my potato crop until this year. Can someone identify what it is? It started with a few yellowing leaves and I sprayed with Daconil a couple of times and then with a fruit tree fungicide once. It didn't start until after they bloomed and they should be near the point when the vines start dying anyway so hopefully I should still get a good crop?
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June 24, 2012 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 5,346
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I mostly see brown crisping and curling of leaf edges. It doesn't look like either early blight or late blight to me. Any chance you have fertilized recently?
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June 24, 2012 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Iowa
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No I haven't fertilized. It's got me stumped. Like you noted, I've looked at examples of potato blight and it just doesn't look like it. I wonder......I did water them during the heat of the day a couple of times when it was in the 90s. Could it be sun scald??
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June 24, 2012 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Iowa
Posts: 481
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Perhaps it's windburn. It has been hot and windy around here.
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June 24, 2012 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Iowa
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It could be, you're right on the wind for sure. I'm just going to assume that it's something like that. Thanks for the help!
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June 30, 2012 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Medbury, New Zealand
Posts: 1,881
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I get a bit of what looks similar to that also and it may well be wind because we get get hot dry winds off the maintains in summer but hadn't been to worried about it up till now really.
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