Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Fungi on Tomatoes

Fungi often grow in many plant, this make many agriculture fail on tomato cultivated. Tomato plant often become die before they are growing adult. Tomato that has fungus diseases often become overwhelmed by it. The tomato leaves turn to yellow, the leaves have many brown spot then turn to brown like brown paper, and crumble when touch. The stem also affected and sometime turn to brown or spoil and die.

To cure the tomatoes plant that infected by fungi usually being spray by fungicide. But fungicide often just effective use for preventive not to cure the infected plants. Other fungi diseases medicine are use copper solution or sulfur solution but sulfur can't dissolve in water, so sometime sulfur just be spread in powder form around the plants.

Other effective for preventive from fungus diseases, use a solution that mixed of one gallon of water with 3 tbs (table spoon) of backing soda, 1 tbs Epsom salt, 2 tbs non concentrated dish-washing soap. This remedy have been used for years by gardeners with great success for attacking many fungus diseases. The success depend to the severity of fungus diseases and the stage to which it has progress.

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