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Help me! (First time grower)

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Bennett

Hi, I've been looking through this site for a while without registering, have seen much great advice.
I'm growing habaneros and jalapenos under a light, and just as they're flowering all the baby leaves on the habaneros are curling up and dropping off.
Some of the plants started doing it and I separated them, but now all the habaneros are doing it, and I think I'm about to lose them all.
I've heard of various leaf curl and wilt problems, but have not been able to find a picture of what I'm looking at. I'd post a picture but I can't figure out how to do it without a URL.

Any suggestions? Or am I going to have to take cuttings and start over?
 
Have used a bit. I know you're not sposed to use much, it was a two part veg formula, last few lots I had it extremely diluted. Maybe used it every second time I watered the plants.
Too little?

I think I overfertilised them once, I washed them thru with water and they looked better after.

Thanks for replying Omri, I've looked thru this board for about three months now, I read that saga where you lost those plants, sounded awful dude.
I've been half waiting for it to happen to me. :shocked:
 
welcome to the boards...

You need to join photobucket or image shack...load your photos onto that site...copy the URL from the picture on that site, then paste it into your message on this board...
 
That was my first thought Lucky, they need to dry out a bit in between waterings.

If they look really bad, I would transplant into clean dry soil and water them just slightly.

Fertilizer and moisture can linger in soil long enough to do real damage if you just leave them.

A wilt, like fusarium, will not affect the plant all of the time. The plants will appear to wilt from time to time with no other explanation.
 
LUCKYDOG said:
Sounds like excessive watering - the soil should be almost dry to the toch and the plant wilt a bit
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It seems to be a rookie mistake... done even by yours truly... try using some sort of a capillary mat for watering or even a plastic cup/bin to keep the pot in. This is what the nurseries in my area use and it seemed to work for me.
 
Pics (bit crappy, but it's the only camera I have right now. Might be able to get some clearer ones soon)

http://gflybobby.googlepages.com/home

I've had watering at about once a week. They're in a mix of coco fibre and perlite.

The jalapenos I have seem to be getting the same problem. Leaves get a bit stiff, turn dark green, and then start to curl up. The whole growth of the plant seems to stop.
 
What nutrients are you feeding them with? it looks like the start of a deficiency of some sort (to me).
 
I've got no idea!
I bought what the guy at the store recommended, and it seems to have been working fine up until now.
It seems to be a no-name brand called 'Crystal Dew', it's got a two part vegging formula and a two part budding formula (which I only switched to a couple of weeks ago, just as the problems got really bad).
It's got a NPK ratio of 21.2/5.5/27.1, with a more detailed list of mineral composition. Says add 5mls of part A to water, then 5mls of part B, per litre of tap water, and I've been diluting it much more than that after reading that over-fertilising really messes with chilis.
I've been using this stuff for weeks, and a couple of the plants came down with the wilting problem ages ago, so I separated them. If they had all done it simultaneously I might have suspected the ferts... I grew all the seedlings too (which I won't be doing again!) so I've got over 30 plants getting the same problem.

What do you think?

Again, thanks for any help.
 
Hey bennet,,,question?Have your plants been in contact/sitting on or top soil with the new copper treated/pressure treated lumber.Your plants look alot like several of my wifes plants that she put around our decks i`m building.They got sickly by just touching the wood.Good luck and keep us informed so when we have the problem.

my pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/hixs0311/
 
Hixs,

sorry, no contact with lumber. Only plastic drain tray. Have re-potted them a couple of times. Planted seeds in metal oven trays, transferred to plastic, polystyrene, and now plastic pots.
After the advice that it might be nutrient deficiency, I looked up more, found this:

http://www.primalseeds.org/nutrients.htm

Sounds like chlorosis. This is alright, as it seems better than what I thought it might be; a virus or chilli plague of death or something.
So I've settled on nutrient deficiency, I'm trying some fish fert I have for calcium, even though the stuff I have says it has calcium. I suspect that the plant I tested it on is picking up, but will have to wait further to see if I'm just projecting my own desires on it or not. ;)

Also, I'm not watering them. The mix does seem quite wet below the surface, so I want to make sure it's not that either. So I've pretty much done nothing since I posted this thread except check the forum many times a day. :)
 
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