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What's The Problem With This Pepper?

This is a small pepper, probably a Thai or Thai cross; that my mother bought a few weeks ago.

The plant was loaded with peppers (like 30 big red ones) and the ones you see were green. No flowering occurred after purchase. The peppers were harvested after a week since the plant came home and the plant was given some blooming fertilizer, iron and probably more than enough water.

A few days later she started dropping her leaves and only the leaves that you see survived. Now the leaves are starting to turn yellow. The plant was left without water since I realized that the leaves were dropping. The roots were checked and they look fine.

Maybe the plant is missing Magnesium? Maybe some pruning will help?
 
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The pot looks pretty small and it doesn't look like it has very good drainage. I would start by repotting it into a larger pot with good quality well draining soil and see what it does.
 
CAPCOM said:
Stressed.
 
+ 1 to stressed.
 
Ares Schizas said:
This is a small pepper that my mother bought a few weeks ago.
The plant was loaded with peppers (like 30 big red ones) and the ones you see were green.
The peppers were harvested after a week since the plant came home
the plant was given some blooming fertilizer, iron and probably more than enough water.
A few days later she started dropping her leaves and only the leaves that you see survived
Now the leaves are starting to turn yellow.
The plant was left without water since I realized that the leaves were dropping.
The roots were checked and they look fine.
 
The above makes me ask, how much fertilizer? In other words, ratio of ferts to water?
 
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Edmick said:
The pot looks pretty small and it doesn't look like it has very good drainage. I would start by repotting it into a larger pot with good quality well draining soil and see what it does.
This can be done as soon as tomorrow.
This pot however has a good drainage. The problem was to make the water stay in.
Picture of the roots:
 
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CAPCOM said:
Stressed. What does your growing media consist of?
This: http://www.gemma.gr/gr/proionta/leptomereies/11951/
It is an MPK 4-7-12.
No idea if the store gave it something and what this something was.
 
 
The_NorthEast_ChileMan said:
 
+ 1 to stressed.
 
 
The above makes me ask, how much fertilizer? In other words, ratio of ferts to water?
 
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MPK 4-7-12 liquid fertilizer.
This one ---> http://www.gemma.gr/gr/proionta/leptomereies/11951/
I have to admit that I did the mistake of mixing the first batch of fertilizer without shaking the bottle at all; however that was right after I brought the bottle home from the store and I walked my way to the store and back (about 300 metres) so it got some shake.

The instructions say "Half cap per Litre" I use a 1,5Ltr bottle and I added a little bit over half a cup both times.

First time (the unshaken batch) I gave it like 200mL.

Second time (new shaken batch) I gave it about 50mL. This seems to have improved its condition. The last peppers started ripening.
 
CAPCOM said:
Root bound as well.
Lots of soil recipes on here. Read up to get an idea what you need and get a container at least twice the size you have now. That container was only to keep it happy from the grower to the store.
Probably I will go with something x4 times the size of the current pot.

I checked the leaves under a strong light and I noticed something that looks like a fungus. We had problems with plant fungus in the past, so I gave the plant a thorough spray of not so fresh garlic water.
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Ares Schizas said:
 
I checked the leaves under a strong light and I noticed something that looks like a fungus. 
 
Hard to tell for sure from the photo, but it looks like it might just be a little fine hair under the leaves. Kind of like tomato plants have, only finer. Some peppers will have that too. Capsicum Pubescens is well known for it, but other species can show the trait to varying degrees as well. My Carboneros have noticeable "peach fuzz" on some of the stems and under the leaves, much more so than on the leaf in your pic. Try to get a good look at it, under magnification if possible. If it is just a little fine hair, then it is part of the plant and nothing to worry about. Crappy cell phone pic incoming:
 
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In my limited experience, yellow leaves and leaf drop = overwatering/poor drainage. I would put it in a bigger pot and add some perlite to the media to increase drainage. Only water when the top inch or so is dry, Should start looking real nice again after about 2 weeks. 
 
Thank you all for the advise!!!

If the plant makes it I will isolate pods and save seeds to send to all of you!

Here she is in her new pot. I used a 30% Perlite, 70% Soil ratio. This is the ration I decided to go with and it also was the recommended ratio on the Perlite sack.

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Edmick said:
Maybe I missed this part, but are you growing it inside or out?
 
Outside. The light above was just for taking pictures. However, the temperature lately has been around 20°C / 68°F during the day and 8°C / ~46°F during the night so I overnight her inside for the last three days.
 
 
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