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  • Bad Bell Pepper problem

    Hi,
    From 6 healthy green pepper plants, I've not got 6 diseased pepper plants, with curling leaves, brown spots and holes in the leaves.
    This has happened in the space of a few days.
    A few weeks ago some of the leaves on the pepper plants began to curl in on themselves, but it looked like ordinary wilting so I put it down to heat.
    I check twice daily for insects and have found nothing, I also sprayed with an insecticide to make sure.
    I've attached pictures of the damage.
    The peppers are grown in grow bags, watered daily.
    Some of the leaves - like in the picture - have turned upside down, while still attached to the stem O.o
    Thanks for your help guys
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    Best guess would be red spider mite, they are tine and very difficult to see. Someone will be along to either confirm or make other suggestions.
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    • #3
      Have you sprayed them with water? The brown marks could possibly be scorch. I've had pepper leaves turn themselves upside down before without apparently coming to any harm.
      A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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      • #4
        looks to me like the leaves have been watered

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        • #5
          I had some tiny White aphid living in the new growth of a few of my pepper plants this year,I've never seen them before,I noticed it because the new growth was coming out twisted looking. Some older leaves do naturally twist around,but this was different. I squirted them with a bit of hand soap & water,it was a delicate operation,the bugs were in new leaves that were 3mm small or smaller,I left the plants outside in the open & the problem seems to have gone.
          Was the sun out when you sprayed with insecticide & did the brown spots appear after using it? I watered with plant feed once when the sun was out,i had brown sunburn spots like that the next day. The holes in the leaves are probably from slugs,I had the same on some of my plants when they were in the blow-away grow tent,I've planted them out now,some are undercover. Slugs have left them alone now & are more interested in the french marigolds I've planted everywhere. It's good to have a few sacrificial plants to lure the slugs away. I have about 50 marigolds sowed from seed into plastic cups,just to keep the slugs happy (whitefly also don't like to nest near the roots of marigolds) they're a great companian plant.
          Location : Essex

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