Here's your picture. Much easier this way. Any chance any of these were store-bought and so late blight infected since it is apparently running rampant in your part of the country?

Dave

I didnt buy them, my grandfather did ( he wanted some early "normal" tomatoes) so I can't be 100% sure, but I'm almost positive they didn't come from home depot or lowes or similar.I also didn't think it looked like late blight from the pics I've seen online and descriptions. Also I'll try and take another pic in 15 min, though I can't upload it the normal way since I'm doing it all from my phone.

Thanks for reposting the pic the correct way though

I wouldn't know if your plants are infected since it's always hard to tell from a photo, but check out this information on late blight. Do I see blotches on the stems also? Hard to tell.

New pic. My bad before. I meant to type that I think it looks like septoria leaf spot.

http://yfrog.com/ea66nj

don't know how to post a pic correctly from my phone.

Thanks so much for the help

lets see if I can do a pic. I think its leaf spot.

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Looks like septoria leaf spot. Has it been wet?

incredibly wet. and probably another inch today, though its just beginning to dry out and warm up this last week. between this, and the ridiculous amount of cucumber beetles and slugs junes weather is still being felt.

reading around about it, im still not certain what to do. i figure on picking up some fungicide to hopefully, along with some dry and warmer weather, prevent the issue from spreading to the other 65% or so of my tomatoes that arent showing any infection at the moment . any recommendations for either a specific product or tips or whatever? being "organic" isnt a concern for me.

SLS doesn't cause stems and leaves to rot as appears in that first photo. Could be a combination of a couple different things. Take some close up shots of other parts of the plant if it is not already gone.

Ill get some more photos with a good camera today.

Could accidental light herbicide contact be the culprit then?

no, its clearly some sort of fungal disease.

Agree it is fungal and not weed killer damage. The lesions on the stems in the first photo would indicate more than septoria to me too - thus my initial question on late blight - tho the leaf lesions aren't classic LB IME.

With that many plants is fungicide spraying an option for you? Are there nearby tomato growers that could have bought the LB plants near to your area that could have transmitted LB?

Dave

as far as I can tell there isnt another garden within a few thousand feet of mine. I bought plants from 4 or 5 different places but nothing in my garden came from any place that big.

fungicide spraying is what I was planning to do at the moment.

as far as i can tell the stem lesions only appear on about 6 or so of the plants at the moment. Im thinking to be safe I should probably just remove those plants completely, and that along with a fungicide spray tonight will hopefully stunt the spreading of whatever I have.

darrenmb

One can go batty trying to ID tomato plant diseases, but in this case, no matter what it is, it appears there's one best path.

Whatever the problem is, the best thing to do is remove the affected leaves (put them in a plastic bag for trash pickup) and keep the rest of the plants sprayed with a fungicide unless you determine that it's Late Blight, which requires the more drastic action of destroying the entire plant and then sanitizing the soil, another discussion altogether.

One step at a time....

Good luck, and I hope your plants survive and are productive!

jtcm05 is right.

After closer review, looks like bacterial speck (or spot)

Here is a link that might be useful: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/tomatoproblemsolver/leaves/5c.html

thanks for the link. Ill spray tonight and cut off and toss any of the damaged leaves. hopefully it hasnt spread any further then where I think it had.

thanks again for all the help.

jtcm05 is right. After closer review, looks like bacterial speck (or spot)

Just to avoid creating confusion, I agree he is right but it is a fungal disease not a bacterial one. Speck and spot are both bacterial diseases. ;)

Good luck with the anti-fungal spray Darren. Fingers crossed for you.

Dave

Is it really possible to determine with certainty that the disease is fungul and not bacterial by looking at those blurry pictures? It looks like it could be bacterial spot to me (the first picture especially looks like bacterial spot). darrenmb, compare the spots on your plants with those in the pictures below.

Bacterial spot: