HELP!!! my pepper plants are dying, we have had a lot of rain and now the weather is becoming hot. I put in 8 bell peppers,green, red, brown, yellow, and 5 anaheim. all are dying, wilting and keeling over. i use 12-12-12, . could it be there is tomuch moisture? I have sandy loam soil and never have had pepper problems before. Corn, tomatoes, beans are growing great, any ideas???????????
Peppers dying
Have you posted this on the Pepper Forum?
annabelle -
Your plants may have received too much water and the roots have rotted.
Your 12-12-12 fetilizer may have been too strong and the roots were burned.
You may have a varmint that ate the roots from below - voles will do this.
If your plants' root systems were not large to begin with, then the hot weather might be taking moisture from them faster than the roots can pump it from the ground.
Dug up the plants, roots are fine , however tge stem at the ground level was mush. The rain has been heavy here abd I think that was it, anyway I replanted with new plants and we are now having hot and dry. Seems that there is no balance.
Hmm - sounds like "damping off" got to them :(
Damping off can happen to adult (sic) plants? I thought i didn;t have to worry about that anymore.
Wait. Making it Grow said something about stems rotting on tomatoes, maybe it would affect peppers as well. I'll go see if I can get it.
doesn't webby debbie say : www.mig.org?
Peppers can be affected in the same manner as tomatoes by Verticillum Wilt. The plant appears to be fine, healthy & growing and yet a day or two after a hard rain it appears to be needing more water. Nothing you can do will change the outcome if it is wilt. The wilt actually lives in soil and can be treated but is a bit costly.
There are tomatoes sold that are resistant and perhaps there are pepper cultivars that are the same. We recently had some hard rains and last night, I noticed one badly wilted bell and a row of tomatoes that will bite the dust due to wilt.
Anabelle15, please let us know if the new peppers do better for you in the same soil... going out to uproot mine tonight.
catmad -
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doesn't webby debbie say : http://www.mig.org?[/quote]
Yup! I've never visited their web site - perhaps I'll check in there now before I go to bed.