Economic Collapse Late Blight Continued Possible Food Inflation

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Uploaded by on Jul 13, 2009

Continued from part 1.
Discussing late blight and its effects on a possible potato & tomato shortage.

With an unusually cool and wet summer the fungus late blight is hitting early. For the first time plants sold in garden centers are contaminated and spreading the disease in home gardens.

Late blight shows up as black spots on the leaves also a white mold. As it spreads the stocks turn black and die. The fungus also causes the fruit to rot.

What is Late Blight?
http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/publications/blight/

Potato famine disease striking home gardens in U.S.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56963J20090711?pageNumber=1...

Blight has tomato growers on alert
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20090710/NEWS/907099948?Title=Blight-has-...

Late blight reaches Ohio, threatens potatoes, tomatoes
http://www.cantonrep.com/lifestyle/home_and_garden/x737365389/Late-blight-rea...

Late Blight Prediction in Maine (PDF fact sheet about late blight)
http://www.umaine.edu/umext/potatoprogram/Fact%20Sheets/lateblightprediction.pdf

Organic Alternatives for Late Blight Control in Potatoes
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/lateblight.html

Organic Management of Late Blight of Potato and Tomato with Copper Products
http://www.extension.org/article/18351

The OMRI Products List Database
http://omri.org/OMRI_datatable.php?search=coppers

Pest Management
http://attra.ncat.org/pest.html#disease

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  • Have very mixed feeling..UK has been anti GM, but there are some amazing toxins in the natural world, but the GM blanket non use, is, i think, that cutting off possible advances. I used to be anti GM, but we will have a populous of 8 billion very shortly, so we have to do something.( castration or GM ?) But ensure it is for world good & not just self interest, profit. Fish GM in tomatoes,no? But better blight free potatoes, yes? If it's there & it is, then good control, not sell out.

  • Nice video. Out of 20 tomato plants, I think we ended up with about 20 tomato's total.  In upstate ny, alot of people around here had alot of trouble. Good luck.

  • My potatoes are done flowering and tomorrow I plan to remove all foliage and harvest the potatoes in a couple weeks. The potatoes are showing no sign of infection yet. Thanks for the post.

  • My home garden here in central Pa has been infected with late blight. I have 16 tomato plants. 10 I started from seed and six were purchased at a local plant sale. The 6 purchased showed signs of blight about 5 days ago. I destroyed 2 plants and started treating the rest with a fungicide 3 days ago. I hope it works. I have my fingers crossed but fully expect to lose most of them.

  • Been 60 in the day and 40 at night

    no blight the flowers on the potato plants are just now about to open.

    growing 12 varieties that were grown from seeds

    not small potatoes which some people call seed.

    Rice is a big alternative to potato.

  • Dug up one of the plants, and there were 10 medium potatoes - so have to harvest now and get it into storage, despite it being a smaller than expected crop.

  • Hmmm. My potatoes were doing pretty good - planted them March 30th - Modoc red, Yukon Gold, and Purple Finger. Had a rainy spring, then dried out and got hot in mid-May...80's to 100. Cool at night though, down to low 50's, sometimes 40's. I water deeply twice a week. Last week the potato vines all turned yellow and wilted back, the vine at ground level soft. This happened over the course of two days.

  • Thanx :)

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