Three days ago these peppers were doing fine. I was so excited to actually have my first peppers of the season! Yesterday I noticed weird looking spots on the leaves of only two out of the four pepper plants, and today I noticed the peppers look sick.
Any help would be appreciated!!
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I agree, looks like sunburn. Typically that would occur on plants that aren't well hardened off or as suggested got moved in to more sun. But maybe it is just too ... darned hot and sunny for them. Think about moving them to an area with a little bit of shade from the hottest afternoon sun.
Also that it a very small pot for them. In the kind of weather you are talking about, you will need to water twice a day probably. And then watering that often will flush out a lot of nutrients so you will need to fertilize a lot.
Put them in bigger pots and mulch over the surface of the pot to help keep the soil cooler and conserve water.
Also that it a very small pot for them. In the kind of weather you are talking about, you will need to water twice a day probably. And then watering that often will flush out a lot of nutrients so you will need to fertilize a lot.
Put them in bigger pots and mulch over the surface of the pot to help keep the soil cooler and conserve water.
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I would agree these look like sunscald, we see this in the northwest some years when it goes from 45 to 80 literally overnight! Peppers like some afternoon shade.
Have you tried the new gel products for pots? might help keep some even moisture levels for you. I haven't tried them since mine are in raised beds and the NW is cooler than usual the last few weeks.
The spots I think are just sunburn
Have you tried the new gel products for pots? might help keep some even moisture levels for you. I haven't tried them since mine are in raised beds and the NW is cooler than usual the last few weeks.
The spots I think are just sunburn
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If they went through a big windstorm, they could just be desiccated.
The tail end of hurricane Charlie went through my area a few years ago. It was very strange, I guess had no water left, so for us it was a dry hurricane, a bunch of high winds and no rain. We mainly had a half hour of really high winds. It was fairly early in spring and all the trees were leafed out but with new tender leaves. Every leaf was dried out, brown and crispy.
The trees eventually dropped them all and started over, put out new leaves. But I had never seen anything like it.
But they do not look diseased, just burned in some fashion, sun and/or high winds.
The tail end of hurricane Charlie went through my area a few years ago. It was very strange, I guess had no water left, so for us it was a dry hurricane, a bunch of high winds and no rain. We mainly had a half hour of really high winds. It was fairly early in spring and all the trees were leafed out but with new tender leaves. Every leaf was dried out, brown and crispy.
The trees eventually dropped them all and started over, put out new leaves. But I had never seen anything like it.
But they do not look diseased, just burned in some fashion, sun and/or high winds.