My indoor Caribbean Red Habanero --- pictures + problem (HELP)
I brought my plant indoors sometime in September. It went from being this...
September 2009
to this...
November 2009
Lots of progress! Unfortunately, the only 2 flowers it produced fell off. They opened nice and wide, looked absolutely beautiful, but I guess didn't have enough sunlight to produce fruit. It doesn't appear to be the end however, as I notice a few small flower buds on the plant, so there is hope!
One thing though.... for some odd reason, some of the leaves (just some) are becoming a little deformed. They look curvy and somewhat wrinkly (instead of perfectly flat), and it's starting to worry me. What could this be? A disease? Or maybe a nutrient problem? It's quite a recent thing, and only started happening within the last 1 - 2 weeks.
Here's a pic of the strange leaves..
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4691/img000030z.jpg
(You gotta click the link, it won't let me post more than 4 pics)
I HAVE noticed a few of these small black fruitfly-like insects here and there, though the majority of the time they just hang around my dwarf lemon tree which is nearby. I do not see any signs of thrip-like damage, although I have seen weird straight cuts, as if someone had taken a knife and made a slit on the side of the leaf. I even noticed something that looked like a bite (or as if someone had pinched a small piece of leaf off). This only happened on like 2 or 3 leaves, but what the hell is going on?
Thankfully, I have seen no bugs since coming back from the states 3 days ago (I was there 5 days, and I think my dad put pesticide on my plants). So it's quite possible that he killed them all for me.. yet I still cannot help but to worry about my plant. Help!
..
I brought my plant indoors sometime in September. It went from being this...
September 2009
to this...
November 2009
Lots of progress! Unfortunately, the only 2 flowers it produced fell off. They opened nice and wide, looked absolutely beautiful, but I guess didn't have enough sunlight to produce fruit. It doesn't appear to be the end however, as I notice a few small flower buds on the plant, so there is hope!
One thing though.... for some odd reason, some of the leaves (just some) are becoming a little deformed. They look curvy and somewhat wrinkly (instead of perfectly flat), and it's starting to worry me. What could this be? A disease? Or maybe a nutrient problem? It's quite a recent thing, and only started happening within the last 1 - 2 weeks.
Here's a pic of the strange leaves..
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4691/img000030z.jpg
(You gotta click the link, it won't let me post more than 4 pics)
I HAVE noticed a few of these small black fruitfly-like insects here and there, though the majority of the time they just hang around my dwarf lemon tree which is nearby. I do not see any signs of thrip-like damage, although I have seen weird straight cuts, as if someone had taken a knife and made a slit on the side of the leaf. I even noticed something that looked like a bite (or as if someone had pinched a small piece of leaf off). This only happened on like 2 or 3 leaves, but what the hell is going on?
Thankfully, I have seen no bugs since coming back from the states 3 days ago (I was there 5 days, and I think my dad put pesticide on my plants). So it's quite possible that he killed them all for me.. yet I still cannot help but to worry about my plant. Help!
..