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Plants that ladybugs like: carrot family, sunflower family, angelica, dill, fennel, goldenrod, yarrow, marigold, cosmos, sunflower, dandelion Plants that lacewings like: angelica, red cosmos, coreopsis, tansy, goldenrod, queen anne's lace. Plants to attract parasitic wasps: southern peas, fava...

Powdery mildew. Highly contagious. Some plants are resistant. Everything you need to know, including how to eliminate here: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/garden/02902.html

Killing bees makes you a bad human being. Don't do it.

Welcome to the club. Check out this recent thread with very similar symptoms http://thehotpepper.com/topic/41381-serrano-branch-end-disease/ The general conclusion is likely severe mite damage. It's been a real bad year for bad bugs around here.

I like the flavor at orange. I doubt you will see much difference in heat or weight unless you leave it way too long and it starts to shrivel.

Bacteria: keep the environment dry. Disinfect with dilute hydrogen peroxide spray.   Mites are harder Avid (abamectin) proven effective, very expensive Lime sulfur - almost as effective as Avid, much cheaper, but...banned in some places, others may require a license or proof you are a large...

Looks like bacteria to me, high humidity / constant rain promotes it. The bug is a bee, leave it alone.

Looks more like Pepper Mild Mottle Virus (different than Pepper Mottle Virus). Symptoms appear primarily on the fruit and match roughly what you have shown. The virus can be transmitted by mechanical contact, so be careful when you handle your plants.

Depends on the ripening pattern. I'm not familiar with those varieties, but many red pods develop a red blush on the green which gradually takes over the whole pod. Others have a different pattern where the whole pod slowly evolves from green-orange-red. Each plant almost always has 1 or 2 pods...

If they are assassins, they are a different species from what we have in Houston. The black spines, the flattened abdomen, the grouping behavior, and the slightly flattened first segment of the hind legs indicate leaf footed bug. As they grow a little bigger, the flat leg segment will become...

1st pic doesn't look like assassins to me. They are clustered, and the spots are black, and the hind part is flattened into an oval. If it was in my garden I would label those as stink bugs = bad. If you can get a good look at the mouth parts, assassin bugs have long "fangs" almost as long as...

If you really want to be sure of the pedigree you can hand pollinate before the flower opens. Cut off the petals of the closed flower and move the pollen from the anthers to the stigmas. You may also have to cut away one or more anthers to reach the stigmas but maybe not, should be obvious once...

BT is a targeted bio-weapon that you can buy at the garden shop. Don't worry though, the UN apparently doesn't care about WMDs that only work on bugs.

Gee "only" $130 a qt for abamectin.     There are a bunch of different mites so I expect any info about tolerance to heat only applies to some specific variety. This fall and winter I will be hitting the landscape plants near the pepper growing areas with canola to try to tamp down the...

I pulled this from one of the papers linked on the first page. Abamectin (Avid) and lime-sulfur definitely work the best. It looks like canola oil may be a viable option, but it will need to be reapplied every 7 days. I'm thinking of doing a trial on a portion of my plant, but I think the...

Sevin, BT, crush them under your boot...

Could be a virus, possibly Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus. Or damage from thrips (thrips are a transmission vector for TSWV so it could be some of both). Or a severe calcium deficiency, but if the soil is the same you would be seeing it on every plant. If it is a virus, I have become a firm believer...

Blood meal is 13-0-0. Yellow leaves indicates N deficiency (or overwatering). So plant needs N, add N, plant is happy. Rocket science it ain't, but good lookin' out. The next level up is to keep the nutrients in balance before the plants ever show any signs of deficiency. That can get tricky.

I don't harvest individual leaves, I pinch off small lengths of stalk then separate the leaves after. If you pull just a leaf will it make new growth in that spot?

I decided to research my root issue and discovered YAY! I have root knot nematodes infesting part of my yard. The sample pics of damage looked exactly like the roots of a couple of the plants I yanked and the symptoms matched as well. Also, we have several citrus trees and they are playing host...