Hey Harry do you care to share a bit more about your cap 217 experience? Like do they like it dry or moist?
JR suggested that i move it to partial shade so will do that, anymore info would be great, it also doesn't seem to like being fed what the other plants like.
I'm not growing the CAP 217 but will comment based on my experience with other 3 Capsicum Pubescens varieties.
The past two seasons I operated on the idea of watering them only when they needed it. This season I let the pots become light but not to the point where the plant wilts. I'm applying the same method to the Capsicum Chinense plants too with success. I suspect that letting the plants get to the point of even beginning to wilt in past seasons resulted in flower drop from the plant trying to conserve water.
When it comes to how much sunlight to give a Capsicum Pubescens plant I found it depends on the variety. I have a weird
bottlenecked Locato plant that since late spring doesn't tolerate direct sunlight but continued to produce fruit. The other Locato plant that matched the supplier's description (3 cm long x 2 cm wide pods) needed direct sunlight to bloom. When the weather isn't scotching hot I try to give it sunlight up to real noon.
JR's suggestion is a good one as you should try moving the plant to a different position with the goal of stopping the leaf curl. How much direct sunlight is the plant exposed to at the moment?
I experimented with fertilisers on the orange Manzano plants and on the Locato plants. I found I had better results with fertilisers that are not loaded with Nitrogen.
The plants at the time I had began experimenting with the fertiliser had depleted the mobile nutrients from their containers. Foliar feeding the plants with Growth Technologies CalMagNit helped kick start the season. I still use it from time to time on the Capsicum Pubescens plants when they show signs of needing Calcium.
I used the following granular fertiliser on a couple of the orange Manzano plants and a yellow Manzano:
Manutec Granular Fertiliser for Fruit and Flower
The orange Manzano plant that approximately shared the same potting mix as the two Locato plants at the time put on over two dozen fruits. I probably need to harvest the pods as it stopped putting on flowering after reaching capacity.
My original and largest orange Manzano plant grew into a monster until something caused the tips to turn brown and die back. I suspect I saw the impact of not keeping track of how much granular fertiliser I had applied.
I had success with Amgrow Nitrosol NPK 10.5:2.3:6.8 plus 1.68% Calcium on the Locato plants. I potted up the bottlenecked Locato plant into depleted mix by recycling the mix from a Jamaican Yellow Mushroom pot and ditching the plant purposely to avoid adding Nitrogen. This worked a treat as the plant continued to flower and put on pods after the transplant.
I had earlier transplanted the other Locato plant that had yet to flower back in spring using Brunnings Tomato Magic mix. The plant went on a Nitrogen trip until it depleted the Nitrogen from the pot. I had to back off on fertilising this plant until it went through the Nitrogen from the new mix.
I transplanted my orange Rocoto #4 plant from a small 1.5 L pot into a 15 L pot filled with the same mix. This in hindsight was a mistake because of the poor quality of the potting mix and the sheer amount of Nitrogen.
Since the weather warmed up I feed the plants with quarter strength Amgrow Nitrosol in rain water. I try to stick to a schedule of feeding them on days with a "t" in them. I avoid using tap water due to its impurities such as Chlorine content through Chloramine.
Would you say the leaves on your CAP 217 plant seem a bit more yellow than they should be?
