billh
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Post by billh on Apr 15, 2014 5:45:29 GMT -5
Hi folks I started about 100 pepper plants...Big Jims, Jalapenos, and pablamos. everything is growing under flourescent lights and seem to be dong fine except some of the leaves are turning yellow and maybe a few have leaves curling. I used miracle grow potting soil and put them in 3" peat pots. I'm thinking too much water or should I turn the lights off? Like Tom Bodett I leave the light on. Your help is appreciated.
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Post by timothyt on Apr 15, 2014 7:48:39 GMT -5
Hey Bill!
Could be quite a few things. Are your lights on all the time? If so, yeah, I think I would set them for just 12-16 hours on and let them "rest" at night. Are you getting yellow leaves top to bottom? Just on the bottom? Yellow leaves across the board or only certain varieties? Could indeed be too much water. I let mine dry out a good bit between waterings Have you potted them up? If so, did this start after potting up? Have you used any fertilizer yet? Full dose or weak dose? How old and how big are the plants?
Sorry, more questions than answers at the moment!
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Post by billh on Apr 15, 2014 20:31:08 GMT -5
Hi TimothT Yeah the lights are on around the clock, but they'll go off around 9:00 tonight and back on about 5:00 in the morning. Yellow leaves on top and it looks like only the jalapenos, maybe the pablanos I checked and yes the potting soil is still mud. They were started around the end of march and I potted them about a week ago with 3" peet pots and miracle grow potting soil and have fertilized once with fish emulsion ( 1 teaspoon per gallon of water. The plants are anywhere from 2" to 5". I hope I got everything and sure hope you can tell me whats wrong with em. Thanks again for the help.
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 16, 2014 1:52:38 GMT -5
Hmmm... billh, there could be a number of reasons like timothyt has stated, is there anyway of posting a picture?
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Post by timothyt on Apr 16, 2014 4:52:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the additional info., Bill, that helps narrow the field a bit.
It could have been the combination of wet feet and 24 hours of light. Most peppers and especially jalapeno don't care for wet feet. Now that you've addressed those issues, lets look at the rest.
Around 3 weeks from seed and at 2"-5" sounds like fast germination and very good growth. Potting up at just 2 weeks from seed actually sounds like it may have been a little too soon, but think they would have shown signs of stress then, not now. But think we've eliminated them being root bound as the problem!
You've fertilized only once with 1tsp fish per gallon of water which is a good low dose for seedlings so that should not be the problem (even if your MG has a bit of fertilizer in it) and symptoms don't really sound like fertilizer burn anyway. And at this age don't think they are in need of more.
We're going to hope it is not a bad batch of MG potting mix as that would usually affect all seedlings across the varieties. And would think that if you had mite or other insect problem as well as disease or fungal problem that same would be true. Did the yellow leaves seem to spread outward from a certain plant or area affecting those closest? Or at random? But might not hurt to separate healthy from not healthy if that is possible.
So at this point let's hope it was the light and wet feet and that it will start to clear up in a few days. If it continues to get worse and spread I would definitely separate then think about re-potting some after rinsing roots into a different potting medium.
Hopefully some of this has been helpful and hope some of the good folks here with more pepper expertize will drop in and give their 2 cents!!!!
Good luck and keep us posted!
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Post by billh on Apr 16, 2014 5:34:15 GMT -5
OK, I was afraid of fungal more than anything because they are so wet. I didn't notice it spreading from one plant, the yellow just kinda was there. Anyway the lights are on again this morning and it's hard to believe still pretty wet, I won't be filling the pans up anytime soon. For now I'm going with wet. DLD I'll try to get a picture on here. Thanks TimothyT
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 16, 2014 11:43:57 GMT -5
billh, do you have a small fan or the like to blow across them... it might help dry them up a bit?
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Post by mjc26250 on Apr 16, 2014 12:08:47 GMT -5
Blowing a fan across them also helps make sturdier plants for transplanting out.
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Post by billh on Apr 16, 2014 20:46:54 GMT -5
Yes I do have a fan and the more I look at the peppers the more convinced I am that they're just wet. I noticed tonight the bottom leaves have fallen off. So off I go with my wind machine. Thanks everyone for the advice
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 18, 2014 8:49:16 GMT -5
billh, please keep us informed on the progress of this, to see if it helps.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Apr 18, 2014 13:48:48 GMT -5
I have an indoor hot pepper plant that started to get yellow leaves- some falling off- a good month ago or so. After reading in various places, one of the possible causes of this is magnesium deficiency. So I bought a bag of epsom salt, sprinkled a ring of salt around the stem, two inches out from the stem. I watered as normal, and here I am a few weeks later, and almost all of the yellowing is gone.
If it keeps up, I would consider a small sprinkle of epsom salts to help feed the peppers.
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Post by billh on Jun 15, 2014 7:42:55 GMT -5
ok, I stopped the water put the fan on them and after a week I put them outside under a roof and moved the out every morning, now they're about 2 ft. tall and blooming still on the table. Hopefully the rain passes this morning and I can maybe plant them this afternoon. Assuming wife and kiddos allow such things to happen today.
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Post by stratcat on Jun 15, 2014 10:28:13 GMT -5
Sounds good, billh!
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Post by bestofour on Jul 10, 2014 21:32:50 GMT -5
ladymarmalade I have an indoor hot pepper plant that started to get yellow leaves- some falling off- a good month ago or so. After reading in various places, one of the possible causes of this is magnesium deficiency. So I bought a bag of epsom salt, sprinkled a ring of salt around the stem, two inches out from the stem. I watered as normal, and here I am a few weeks later, and almost all of the yellowing is gone. If it keeps up, I would consider a small sprinkle of epsom salts to help feed the peppers. Did the epsom salts work?
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Post by billh on Jul 11, 2014 6:31:56 GMT -5
I didn't use the epsum salt, turned out it was to much water. I have them in the ground now and they're doing pretty good considering after planting they've been on thier own.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jul 11, 2014 8:11:26 GMT -5
Did the epsom salts work? They worked for my pepper plant! Greened it back up nicely. Now that it's outside for the season, I'm fertilizing with Garden Tone occasionally and it's looking great. I have five or six ripe and ready fatalii peppers already.
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Post by bestofour on Jul 11, 2014 10:31:15 GMT -5
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