Blight-resistant tomatoes

[Debbie292d]

I looked here for any suggestions, then googled it. Google names these supposedly popular types of blight-resistant tomatoes, yet I've never heard of them: Defiant, Mountain Magic, Jasper, and Legend. Has anyone had experience with these or know of others? I need to order some in the coming months.

Back story is that we live in a high blight area and have done everything known to man to try to beat it, so we know every trick in the book, yet, sitting on our patio, in fresh pots, with fresh dirt, with mulch, all five plants, all disease-resistant, got the early blight.

This spring, I'm getting grow lights and going to grow them in the basement, and if it goes well, just repot and leave them down there. They won't get the bees, but I read you can just shake them a bit next to each other when they bloom. I don't know if it'll work, but we're going to try it.

 

[heirloomgal]

I looked here for any suggestions, then googled it. Google names these supposedly popular types of blight-resistant tomatoes, yet I've never heard of them: Defiant, Mountain Magic, Jasper, and Legend. Has anyone had experience with these or know of others? I need to order some in the coming months.

Back story is that we live in a high blight area and have done everything known to man to try to beat it, so we know every trick in the book, yet, sitting on our patio, in fresh pots, with fresh dirt, with mulch, all five plants, all disease-resistant, got the early blight.

This spring, I'm getting grow lights and going to grow them in the basement, and if it goes well, just repot and leave them down there. They won't get the bees, but I read you can just shake them a bit next to each other when they bloom. I don't know if it'll work, but we're going to try it.

As far as I'm aware @Debbie292d blight is airborne, not necessarily soil born. So fresh soil probably isn't much help. I think with avoiding blight the specific cultivar is really important. Lots of the currant tomatoes have very high blight resistance. I grow tomatoes in my greenhouse, no bees in there, and they grow just fine. I don't even jiggle them. It's a myth that tomatoes need bees.

 

[Debbie292d]

It's both airborne and can be in the soil, thus the reason for the new soil and mulch. We've honestly tried everything, but it's clear that new pots, soil, and mulch have nothing to do with preventing it, at least in our case this year. It's definitely airborne here.

We could use a greenhouse for sure.

 

[flowerbug]

i no longer even try to fight whatever it is here because like you it seems to come along no matter what i do. the plants start losing leaves and sometimes are almost completely empty of leaves by this time.

we did have more leaves on plants this year compared to most of the previous years and much of it was probably from giving them more space and letting them sprawl out and also not having so many tomato worms eating the plants.

 

[Decoy1]

There have been quite a lot of tomato varieties bred in recent years for blight resistance. Some are F1 hybrids like Mountain Magic , Crimson Crush and its relatives, Crimson Cherry etc.
Very promising are some open pollinated varieties bred by the University of Göttingen’s Organic Outdoor Tomato Project. These include Primabella, Sunviva,, Rondobella, Clou etc. I’ve grown Mountain Magic, Crimson Crush, Primabella and Sunviva with good results. I much prefer the last two open pollinated varieties because I can then save my own seed.