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Just an update: I havent found any more holes in my pepper plants since I put down the barrier. A day or two after the Sluggo disappeared, I found about 4-5 peppers with holes in them so whatever was eating them wasnt satisfied with the Sluggo. After 4 nights with the barrier, I found only a...

I just put a barrier around my reaper plant. The Ghosts and Jalapeños are still unaffected. Hopefully this barrier prevents any insects from crawling up. Also, dont ask why the image is upside down lol. Seems to be a bug with the site. I tried rotating it before re-uploading it but that didnt...

  Is there a reason you shouldn't put more down more than 3 times in 30 days? Like does the soil absorb some of the stuff that kills the pests and it keeps them away? I'm just curious because I assumed if there weren't any pellets on the ground the new pests (or the ones that didn't eat the...

I just went out (24 hours after putting down Sluggo) and almost all the Sluggo was gone. Something must have eaten pretty much all of it. It doesnt seem like birds would try to get through the wire fencing. I know on the box it says no more than 3 applications every 30 days but since its all...

Just got some Sluggo Plus from the store and put it down. I also cut off all the eaten peppers so it should be pretty obvious if it works or not. The next attempt would probably involve neem oil, but its expensive for even a small bottle of concentrate.

Ah, yeah that makes sense. Cool.

Awesome. I'll pick up some Sluggo Plus later today at the local gardening center and try it out. It says it kills cutworms, so hopefully that does it. The holes and bite marks on your pepper look very similar to the ones on mine, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was a cutworm. I thought they...

  I'll give Neem a shot. Does it also work to protect against other pests than cutworms?  

  Interesting. How would you prevent the cutworms then?  

  It just seemed inconvenient for the birds. I've got other pepper plants that are much more exposed and don't have fencing that's as tall so I would expect those plants to be the first ones targeted.  

  I've heard things about birds eating peppers but I'm not sure they're causing it in this case. I have a pretty tall fence around my plant and even peppers that are well off the ground and hidden away inside the plant are getting eaten. Would a bird fly into the fenced area and somehow get into...

  Pepper worm seems like a good candidate. How have you prevented them?

  I suppose that could be possible. I didn't see any caterpillars on the plant though, and none of the leaves have their edges chewed off. What's the best solution to a caterpillar problem?  

Hi,   I planted some Carolina Reapers earlier this year and they did pretty well up until they started actually growing peppers. At first the peppers were fine, but after a few weeks something started to eat holes in a lot of the peppers. They're not small holes either, probably 1cm in diameter...

I haven't been growing peppers for a long time, so I've got a bunch of questions that I can hopefully have answered here! I'm mostly interested in superhots like the Reaper and Ghost Pepper.