Does anyone know what is happening to this pepper seedling? The leaves also grow in clusters instead of 2 each time. I have never seen a c. annum with so much trichomes.
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issue Is this disease, mutation or pest damage? Distorted vein and leaf clusters
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Does anyone know what is happening to this pepper seedling? The leaves also grow in clusters instead of 2 each time. I have never seen a c. annum with so much trichomes.
Downriver
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Are you sure it's a pepper? Where did the seed come from?
So if it is a plant virus, I should be able to replicate by using that used soil on another seed of different cultivar right? It maybe an accidental cross of a tomato and annum because pubescens have been ruled out.
Yes it is an heirloom georgia black with yellow typical pepper seed that have no hair on seed and it is shaped like a cayenne seed. I am planting the entire seed pack to see if I can replicate the same kind of growth. The seed came from a reliable etsy source that my entire garden is growing from.
I am thinking that it might be virus-like syndrome (VLS). VLS can be characterized by dwarfism and filiform (long, slender and/or deformed) leaves. Google shows it being associated with chinense x annuum crosses in peppers, but I saw similar symptoms in an attempted chinense x baccatum cross so there are other possibilities besides just chinense x annuum. Or it might be an actual plant virus. In that case it could spread to your other plants. So I would consider either getting rid of it or at least quarantining it if possible to prevent it spreading if it is an actual virus.
Maybe you could replicate it, but why would you want to propagate a plant virus? AFAIK, while peppers and tomatoes can be grafted to each other, they won't cross-pollinate. They are not in the same genus. Cross-pollination of plants from different genera is rare.
Black Cobra and Goat's Weed peppers are annuums, and are typically covered in trichomes, so it is possible.
Because I just changed a different brand of soil, it smell like diesel. I am suspecting the soil being the issue as this plant had been in the same compartment with 8 other plants for the past 1 month, the rest which were also annuum were not infected.
Now that the plant is slightly bigger, it is most likely mosaic virus.
AFAIK the virus may already be in some seeds. Or can be spread by insects (e.g. aphids) through sap sucking
It could also be broad mites. I've had plantlets that looked similar. In my experience, your plantlets are unlikely to recover from that, better dispose of them.
I think the virus is present before the cotyledons form due to the weird shape. Could be contamination from the soil, seed or the seed germination cup I used the tapwater didn't remove the virus when washing. I had 1 particular shop that sent seeds with 0 germination and moldy.
Bou
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As others have said, you should get rid of it and make sure you sanitize the pot well if you want to keep it for later use. I would also trash the plants that were in the same container just in case. Even if you don't see symptoms on these plants, that doesn't mean they are "clean" and I wouldn't take the risk of spreading the virus and ruining my entire grow...