kgetpeppers 2014 GL: 10/15. Late harvests

TrentL · Jul 27, 2014

I'm still fighting some problems with mine too.

I've got three distinct problems hitting my plants. The frogeye leaf spot continues. Also have a viral or bacterial infection of a different sort. And lately a "crinkled distorted leaf" thing is hitting one row, right down the line. (Hoping like hell that's not broadleaf mites..)

I keep pruning the hell out of them and it's starting to clear up some.

PaulG · Jul 27, 2014

Sorry to hear about the leaf issues, bud; that is kind of sucky.

How do you know if the spots are a bacterial infection and not just some rust or burn?
I've seen a leaf here and there like the ones you showed, but just pull them off. If it is
a possible bacterial infection, how would I tell?

TrentL · Jul 27, 2014

kgetpeppers said:
Here is some pics to go with my update, First the bad! This is the bacterial spotting that has plagued my annums only at the moment and one bbg7 whych i stripped the leaves from,. "prays".

I pulled the plant that was the "main culprit" as it saddens me, but may be for the best.

That looks like Frogeye - it's a ~~bacterial~~ fungal infection. Prune & remove any leaves that show spots.

The other ones with the crinkled leaves and edges that are decaying, could be fertilizer burn.

kgetpeppers · Jul 27, 2014

The one thing they say you can tell if bacterial or fungal is that bacterial will be on all parts of plant I think. But anyways I have the spots under control right now but has anyone experienced bacterial wilt. I know one plant had this because I pulled the plant which looked wilted and dead and cut the stem open. The key sign is a white stringy goo that comes out in water as well as Browning of the veins inside. I think my aji pineapple which was closest to the plant that died from bacterial wilt is now going down due to wilt. This sucks really bad as it was loading up with many pods. ..have not lost a Chinese yet tho but ill knock on wood. ...

Ill try to update with some pics soon tonight or tomorrow. Im hoping my one bbg plant survives as it had its first pod and pheno looks good. Also some nice moa action and first primo pod forming. Only plant with no pods are the reapers ; (

Thank you all for the kind words and for looking.

TrentL · Jul 27, 2014

You just described Fusarium Wilt to a T.
Not a whole heck of a lot you can DO about fusarium, either. It lasts for-fricking-ever in the soil.

You can muck with the PH some,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_wilt

Go down to the "management" part.

kgetpeppers · Jul 27, 2014

TrentL said:
You just described Fusarium Wilt to a T.

Not a whole heck of a lot you can DO about fusarium, either. It lasts for-fricking-ever in the soil.

You can muck with the PH some,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_wilt

Go down to the "management" part.

Hmm, I knew any kind of wilt is pretty bad from soil standpoint. I hope it stays isolated in the one bed at least so i can have a SMALL success. I do have some lime I can spread around as well as I hear some cornmeal can help the situation. Really sucks if it hits the other bed as the plants there are starting full production mode right now.

How are your plants holding up to all your issues trent.

kgetpeppers · Jul 28, 2014

Updated with pics as promised. Anyways, It has really been a struggle and it seems many organisms were to blame. Hard to combat that 2+ weeks of rain everyday but hopefully I still can manage some peppers. First pictures of the bad. This aji pineapple has some sort of bacterial and or fungal wilt that strangled the plants water from below. It wilted so fast had no idea. Very sad loss, I just hope it doesnt spread too far into ALL of the plants. At least the beds are seperated and only one has had issues this season.

RIP #5..

pods and all.

Now onto some better pictures.

Small SB7J, I havent had many flowers take so I might consider some hand pollenation with this plant and a couple other of superhots which just wont pod up.

small red teardrop hab, This plant had severe BLS and now is recovering and spitting flowers out again.

The hot lemon drop I HOPE survives, its in a 5 gallon bucket so hopefully it doesnt transfer over and wilt my whole garden. Healthy so far

Super podded up red savina

first MOA pod, what you think?

another MOA pod

White devils tongue multi pod!!!

tons of pods on this ugly plant!!!

Lightning hab....

I think thats 10.. BUMPPPPPPPP

Dhfreak82 · Jul 30, 2014

Double pod madness!!! I love it

kgetpeppers · Jul 30, 2014

Dhfreak82 said:
Double pod madness!!! I love it

Yeah there is almost ten double pods on the one plant. Kinda strange

TrentL · Jul 30, 2014

Ugh, that fusarium wilt is kicking your ass, man. That's gutwrenching.

One thing you *MIGHT* want to try - and it's a long shot, and not cheap - is to saturate that area around the wilted plants with Hydrogen Peroxide. I saved two of my plants with it from sudden wilt this winter. (used 1 gallon of H2O2 per pot).

It's not practical to do on a large scale, but if you don't have a huge area to cover... might be worth a shot. It'll hyper-oxygenate the soil, which kills the fungus in the soil. (great for plant roots! DEADLY to fungus.)

kgetpeppers · Aug 4, 2014

TrentL said:
Ugh, that fusarium wilt is kicking your ass, man. That's gutwrenching.

One thing you *MIGHT* want to try - and it's a long shot, and not cheap - is to saturate that area around the wilted plants with Hydrogen Peroxide. I saved two of my plants with it from sudden wilt this winter. (used 1 gallon of H2O2 per pot).

It's not practical to do on a large scale, but if you don't have a huge area to cover... might be worth a shot. It'll hyper-oxygenate the soil, which kills the fungus in the soil. (great for plant roots! DEADLY to fungus.)

Yeah, I still dont know if its fusarium or bacterial. The last plant i split open the trunk and did the water dunk test and it was spewing out white substance which was a sign of bacterial. No more plants have shown signs of deterioration yet so ill knock on wood. I did spray some h202 one quart mixed with 3q water onto the worst part hit of the soil and recovering plants. TBH i believe i FOUND part of the source for this shit too. I had been offered some mulch from my neighbor which was sitting in his driveway. It seemed good but later found out it was dyed etc and not the plain ol chips i been using. Well, the areas of concern is that i ONLY used some of that mulch on the affected bed. So who knows, It was soaked and sitting on his driveway for a week. Lessons learned.

Here is a few pod pics tho

BBg 7 with some dog hair

actually was STOKEd to find out this grew into pequin, which i had lost two plants to wilt in beds. phew

two "bonchi" bhutlah plants. actually grow well in the small pot, given nutes and waterings. Most likely wont do any OW because chances of bacterial issues here already.

CHocolate fatali LOADED with pods

primoooo got bumpy and wicked!

was labeled Brown bhutlah, from SLP. Turned out to be ???? what do you think.? Hot, chinese. dark leaves on plant

damn peach ghost wont freaking pod up...

another mystery. Old pic ...wonder what it is.

Lightning hab mix, have two plants of this. Seems to be growing well..!!!!

THanks for looking.

Bonus pic, I went fishing for three days with my dad and this was the first fish of the trip.. Ended up that day with 5 bass 17,17.5,18,18.5 and a 16.75 inch next day was 16 that was fat and 19"

rick_pitcher · Aug 4, 2014

Big ass fish

kgetpeppers · Aug 4, 2014

rick_pitcher said:
Big ass fish

yeah was pretty nice largemouth!

TrentL · Aug 5, 2014

Damn nice fish man!

I hear you on the mulch, I was scared when I added mulch to my garden this year. I went with triple-shredded hardwood. And I only put on 1" of it over a weed block barrier, so the mulch itself stays real dry.

Well good luck and don't be shy with the H2O2, you literally CAN NOT add enough of it to hurt your plants.

This winter one of my plants, a Scotch bonnet I've been raising since 2012, got hit with root rot after I overwatered it.

I used a GALLON AND A HALF of Hydrogen peroxide, totally flushing the pot out (filled the 2" drip pan several times with funky nasty smelling runoff waste water)

3 weeks ago, it looked like this:

kgetpeppers · Aug 5, 2014

Nice trent

kgetpeppers · Aug 5, 2014

Omg. So mad. I was checking the brown moruga plant for pod formation and I shook the plant to move some pollen around and snapped a branch with like 40 buds on it. Clean off the plant and no time to repair. O well time to let mother nature do its thing

kgetpeppers · Aug 6, 2014

Oops double post

kgetpeppers · Aug 9, 2014

Small harvest of non peppers and couple RIPE peppers!!

NEED help i.d a pepper of mine please.

Yellow bullet hab looking pretty to shape, and pretty damn hot, phew.. Chopped this bad boy up and put it in some salsa, not the best flavor fresh but might be as dried.

tons of cherries coming in and romas.

so that orange pod is one on the mystery plant labeled brown bhutlah, seeds were from SLP. The plant started out pretty much black/purple so im thinking some kinda pimente de ..........

It had dark purple pods as seen in GLOG, Then changed to a green color before ripening to a bright ORANGE.

Any ideas?

Thanks for looking

kgetpeppers · Aug 24, 2014

8-24-14

Pods are changing color fast. Over the last week we have gotten over 7 inches of rain so thats not good. I hope the early season problems to not worsen as they have been tamed for most of the summer now. Gave the plants some more ferts, least I will have a great chinese harvest since NONE of my chinese bed got knocked out which makes me a little glad.

I also tried a ripe 7 pod evergreen, Will have to take some pictures of another but holy shizzle was that HOT. Made my ears ring. Pretty cool how it doesnt change color!!!...

ON to some PODDDDSSS!!!!

One of my randoms extra. Believe its a sepia serpent!.

BBG7 spare plant doing better in the 1 gallon bag then in my 7 gallon bag.... go figure!!!!!

PRIK yee SUan ripening up. HOT little buggers!!!! This one is in a half gallon smart pot homemade and has around 200 pods.

WHite devils tongue ripening up... Leaves on plant havent changed from day one,, just going to go with it!!!!

YELLOW bullet habs shooting out some ripe pods, Definately grew true!

Labeled RED SAVINA, looks ok so far!!!

"lightning habenero" MIX of seeds. guess this plant turned out to be brown/burgandy!!! MONSTER pod too

7 pod EVERGREEN> tried this one, strong chinese smell and pretty damn hot.

First nasty primo starting to ripen!!!!!

LOADED Brown Fatali starting to turn!!!!

Thats ten,,

BUMP PLS!!!!!

THANKS FOR LOOKING

JoynersHotPeppers · Aug 24, 2014

Bump