wrote in
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It doesn't matter why, I'm just curious about the process. Mother
nature is a very mysterious being, but there is no harm in working out
how best to give her a helping hand.

The suggestion isn't a bad one, unfortunately it isn't entirely
feasible with my current set up, since I have rather a large variety
of different, er, varieties. So trying something on one and different
on another would mean working out which 2 were the same.

As it happens, I'm unintentionally doing that anyhow, since I'm
cutting off any blighted branches as they appear (and cutting down the
stems to below the blight where necessary) and some of the plants are
looking a little ... limbless.

I did something a bit odd for the time of year this afternoon, I
repotted a bunch of old straggley tomatoes in pots that I had
forgotten about into the old blighted grow bags. I figured, they will
be getting infected at this point anyhow, may as well try and get a
bit of growth out of them first. So I moved about 15 stragglers ...
unfortunately some of them were over 5' tall, and on canes. Thank
goodness it was raining and no-one witnessed it, it must have looked
quite entertaining.

Which reminds me, I found out a few of my varieties whilst I was
digging!


There you are then! You are learning by experience, as I knew you would.
The best way IMO.

Baz