A. Tomato Plant Pests
Tomato fruit worm (Heliothis armigera Hübner.)
Characteristics: ± 4 cm long caterpillars and will be getting longer at low temperatures. Color varies from green caterpillar, yellowish green, brownish green, brown to black. Caterpillar on the side of the body there are wavy lines elongated, colored younger. Many warts on his body and hairy look. Eggs are round yellowish shiny and after 2-4 days it turns brown. Moth wing length when stretched ± 4 cm and a body length between 1.5 to 2.0 cm. Brown front wings and rear wings are white with brown edges.
Symptoms: This worm attacks the leaves, flowers and tomatoes. These caterpillars are making holes in tomatoes are on the move. Fruits are generally perforated so that the fruit becomes infected with soft rot. Control:
moths attracted to ultraviolet light rays so that the trap is held;eggs and caterpillars can be collected and burned or turned off; Tidewater garden planted corn to reduce attacks on tomato plants;weeds around tomato planting area is cleaned;The product is sprayed with PESTONA aero + 810 (6: 1/3) cap / 1 tank spray, spraying once a week.
Green aphids apish
These ticks include family Aphididae of the order Hemiptera are often called aphis tomato, potato aphis. Green ticks are a factor of the virus.
Characteristics: There are winged lice and there are no wings. Long-winged bugs that between 2 to 2.5 mm, head and chest brown to black and chartreuse belly. The size of the antenna along the body. Long-winged bugs that are not between 1.8 to 2.3 mm, yellowish-green.Symptoms: The leaves are attacked tomatoes bad shape, curly, stunted, curved downward, like a narrow ribbon, chlorosis, mosaic and leaves become brittle.
Control: Weeds around the area of tomato plants should be cleaned as it can become a haven lice;control can be done mechanically by lice aphis massaged so that they die; control by use of the product Nasa BVR Aero-810 + (2 tablespoons + 1/4 cap) per tank, spraying once a week.
B. Tomato Plant Disease
Fruit Flies
These include family Trypetidae flies (Tephritidae) of the order Diptera.
Characteristics: has a long transparent wings 5-7 mm, 6-8 mm body length. Abdomen brown with transverse dark brown, dark brown chest with patches of yellow or white. Young grubs are white, but when mature, yellowish in color. Maggot length ± 1 cm. Is located within the maggots of fruit flesh. Flies eggs chopped into small pieces, length ± 1.2 mm, both ends pointed, and white. Symptoms of tomato fruit to rot due to a fungus or bacteria. When the fruit is opened there will appear a white grubs. Maggot adults and yellowish when touched will bounce as far as ± 30 cm in order to save themselves.
Control: At the time of plowing, the soil must be reversed and allowed several days to several weeks to allow the sun to a dead fly pupa. Captured by using a Nasa product that is Metilat, by way of the brush in the white bottle and the plug approximately 20 Pcs with a distance of about 20 m. fruit that have been attacked picked immediately and burned; weeds in tomato planting area should be cleaned.
Late blight
Cause: the fungus Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary.
Symptoms: the infected tomato leaves mottled brown to black. At first, the end or side of the leaf, just look a few millimeters, but eventually extending to the entire leaf and petiole. This disease began to attack the base of the fruit, causing watery patches of gray-green to brown.
Control : Do the watering Nasa Natural Products GLIO + super + POC nasa nasa (1 + 2 bottle box (@ 250gram) + 1 bottle) diluted to 50 liters of water, pour into 250 cc of plants / stems.
Plants that have been attacked and burned immediately revoked;diseased plants should not be buried in the area of planting tomatoes;
tomato plant resistant varieties;
Do planting rotation;
Land that has been left for some time to hoe in the sun, The product is sprayed with Nasa GLIO + Natural White Sugar (2 spoons + 5 tablespoons) feed / spray tank.
Wilt disease
Cause: Pseudomonas solanacearum (EF Sm) EFSm.
Symptoms: This disease attacked plants wilt faster. Plants that have been infected leaves are still green, but then all of a sudden wilting, especially the young shoots, and leaves the bottom of the yellowing. Infected plants become stunted, leaves curled downward, and sometimes formed adventitious roots along the stems of tomato. Plants attacked normally would collapse and die.
Control:do the watering Nasa Natural Products GLIO + super + POC nasa nasa (1 + 2 bottle box (@ 250gram) + 1 bottle) diluted to 50 liters of water, pour into the plant 250 cc. Should not be the kinds of plants that includes the family Solanaceae;weeds in the planting area is cleaned, diseased plants removed and burned, land that had been dug for quite some time left in the sun.
Those are some pests and diseases that often attack tomato plant, we must be diligent in caring these plants. So it produce fresh tomatoes with high quality.
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