I'm new here, so I hope I'm not doing anything wrong by asking this here, but I'm in need of some help. I'm growing several different varieties. Three of the varieties are not doing well. It seems like the veins in the leaves are bursting causing the leaves to go soft in large dark patches. The plants are 5 weeks old, and are rather large for their age (7 inches tall, several leaves, and some have even put out buds which I've been picking off). Could this be caused by excess heat, water, nutrients, etc. I've looked at over 1000 images of fungus and bacteria, along with other leaf issues, and have not found one that is similar at all.
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Help! What's happening to my peppers?
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and no your not doing nothing wrong , been in your shoes before , so i know what your experiencing . But like Capcom stated , hard to diagnose without more specifics . 
+100000000 for photos
If we can't see it, we can't do much. You can use PhotoBucket to host photos to post on here. Just go to the site and sign up, upload your photos, then copy and paste the appropriate link.
And a warm to the forum - you're gonna love it here!
If we can't see it, we can't do much. You can use PhotoBucket to host photos to post on here. Just go to the site and sign up, upload your photos, then copy and paste the appropriate link.
And a warm
to the forum - you're gonna love it here!
Photobucket has terrible popups and video ads with sound. I recommend imgur.
I've had a PhotoBucket account for years and yea , I had to add a Plus Subscription at 15 bucks a year it got so bad.spicefreak said:
I did open a Imgur account and have started using it, not really thrilled with the editing functions.
Fair enough, I do any necessary edits offline so that part of a hosting site means nothing to me.
I'll post pics shortly. I know it's ridiculous to ask for a diagnostic without photos.lol Sorry.
This isn't a very good pic of it. Taken with an iPhone, but it just didn't want to focus on the plant. Growing conditions - temps between 72-80. Humidity is around 49% most of the time. 2 6500 and 2 5000 (daylight and sunshinet) 4 foot T8 fluorescent bulbs. Plant stay within 4-8 inches away. Fan blows a light breeze all day. I ttry not getting the leaves wet during watering. I have started to wait until the soil is completely dry between watering. I only use organic fertilizers. I was making a wide spectrum compost tea, but stopped doing so in fear of adding bad bacteria. I used the Buggy Brew recipe for the most part, but cut the percentages down a little. I'm starting to think this is the leaf spot bacteria, but it doesn't look exactly like it? I bought seeds from a very reliable source and can't imagine they were contaminated, but that's the only thing I can think of considering it's only 3 strains that are showing the signs. I have moved all of them but three that I threw away out of the room so I can keep an eye on them (mainly out of curiosity).
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What media are you using? You look really dry. That could be your issue.
The 1st thing I would do is transplant to a larger container with a good growing media.
You want is a media that provides good drainage but retains some moisture or good drainage with no retention but you will have to water several times a day.
The 1st thing I would do is transplant to a larger container with a good growing media.
You want is a media that provides good drainage but retains some moisture or good drainage with no retention but you will have to water several times a day.
They are in miracle grow potting soil with extra perlite I added. They stay noisy for about 1.5 - 2 days (not wet) and I keep up with the watering. I think I may have been over watering at one point, but have started allowing the soil to dry out before watering. I honestly feel like I'm doing everything right. It starts with a small soft spot around the leaf vein and spreads. Like the veins are bursting something.. and it seems like it's spreading to other plants.
Here are a few pics. 1: my grow setup 2: the spots that I'm concerned about 3: a close up of one of the bad leaves (the spot or soft as if the leaf was burnt with hot water or something) 4: some of my pepper plants (they just don't seem healthy) I've done everything by the book, at least I feel like I have. Where am I going wrong? By the way, these are all heirlooms. Not sure if that makes a big difference other than that they're more susceptible to disease, etc. I almost feel like starting over before it's way too late.. I just want some homemade hot sauce! Lol
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IMO these pics look like they could be a nutritional problem? Are you using the exact same feed, soil, water, etc etc for the afflicted and all others? See if you can find any trends that lead towards the problem...
Good point. The ones that are doing good were transplanted a week after the ones that aren't, with the exception of a few. They've all received the same feeding from the time they were transplanted. I was using compost tea for a few of the feedings, but I think I stopped before or soon after I transplanted the ones doing okay right now. I've been using fish emulsion since then. I watered them with a 1/2 strength (1 tsp per 1.5 gallons of water) earlier today. I have a couple tomatoes that are definitely showing a magnesium deficiency (hopefully it's not actually a ph issue instead), and so I wanted to eliminate the possibility of that being the issue. I also backed the light off of them a few inches. I'm going to give it a couple days to see what happens. I'm just afraid that it could be fungal or bacterial. A couple of them have actually dropped a couple leaves.. I guess I'll be ordering a few more packs of seeds tomorrow just in case the worst happens. Thanks for all the responses. And please feel free to continue to diagnos if you have any other ideas of what might be wrong.
