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Post by stratcat on Sept 16, 2008 23:49:33 GMT -5
Some of my Buran sweet peppers and a few hot ones are getting holes in them. The holes aren't near the stem and usually cause the peppers to drop. Haven't found any insects inside a pepper. Any thoughts on the culprit and prevention?  Thanks. john |
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Post by canadamike on Sept 17, 2008 0:17:24 GMT -5
Looks like bacterial spot to me, but the picture is not super clear on my puter. Could be something else...Cure is sad but simple: burn all plants infected. This is a disease that is seed born. Get rid of your seeds supply.
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Post by orflo on Sept 17, 2008 0:32:47 GMT -5
I don't think that's bacterial spot (are the leaves spotted?). Look at the little stem left, I think a slug had a little meal when the pepper was young, and also took a nibble of the pepper (but that could have been an insect bite as well). The attaching stem overgrew the damage (same for the little spot), but not completely, and when the pepper became bigger and heavier, it couldn't support the weight anymore, and breaks....
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Post by canadamike on Sept 17, 2008 0:54:16 GMT -5
Ghee, you have better eyes than me  It is possible Frank, and I forgot to ask John about the leaves. There is not much spots either, but but they are sunken, who knows...I've seen tomatoes felled with few spots on them. Are the leaves ok,John? As for a cure, I just found one on Tomodori. Apparently, if you rub them often with vaseline, they'll end up like that:   |
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Post by stratcat on Sept 18, 2008 14:34:03 GMT -5
Hi Orflo and Michel.
Thanks. I appreciate your help.
The leaves are fine on all my peppers. In my picture, I can see another spot near the hole where I think an insect has gnawed.
As to your picture-my peter peppers are never anywheres near that spectacular! ;D ;D ;D
john
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Post by canadamike on Sept 18, 2008 15:14:19 GMT -5
They might have been foliar fed with viagra |
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Post by stratcat on Nov 24, 2008 17:22:19 GMT -5
Hey, Michel.
Sent pics of my problem peppers to the Extension Office Director a county away where I took my MG training.
He looked it up in his Penn State disease manual and says it's Early Blight, aka Alternaria Rot.
Rotation is the best defense. Since I didn't get my mulch down before June had rains all the time, the tomatoes dropped their lower leaves. This was new for peppers and the leaves didn't display lesions.
Did you get any seeds of those Peter Peppers from Tomodori? ;D
john
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