MOFishin
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Need to quickly diagnose these cayenne plants.

I say "quickly" because I am leaving for a 3 day camping trip tomorrow afternoon, and would like to do something to treat this disease before I go.
I snapped a few pictures, but only this one turned out halfway decent. I'm headed out to work in the garden now, and I'll try to take more.
Thanks for looking.
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I also had something (My guess is deer) eat some upper branches off 2 of my tomato plants. I plan to put up a little fence, but won't be able to until at least Tuesday.

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I think your pepper will do better if you put down some mulch -- layers of moistened newspaper or packing paper covered/held down with just about anything you can get your hands on: I use pulled up weeds in a pinch -- I think the problem could be heat/temperature/uneven soil moisture stress related, combined with splashed up fungal spores. The wormy-worm will like that, too.

Cut off the worst affected leaves so they won't be a beacon to draw pests -- if the plant can't afford to lose them all, snip off the affected parts of the leaves. I hesitate to recommend you spray when you can't monitor how they will respond. I like to keep a close eye on my plants for a day or two after spraying anything I'm not familiar I with.

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Thanks applestar. Plans have been changed, so now I'm not leaving until Saturday. But still not enough time to really observe how things go. I guess I will go after it with scissors tomorrow.



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