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Next to My Chair

Been thinking about it.. pretty sure I'm growing peppers because I'm bored.  Like, deeply, existentially bored.  Plus, a little harmless pain never hurt anybody, right?  Hell, it's probably even good for you.  We'll see if those are good enough reasons, I guess.  I bought me some "Scotch Bonnet Orange" seeds from Amazon before I found you fine folk, lurked around here for a while, then planted them anyway along with other, infinitely less suspect seeds I ordered from far flung places around the globe(!) as recommended by the very venerable Vendor Vault.  I've got them growing here by my chair.  I sit here and read. (The wall to my right as I took this picture is lined with bookshelves I'm slowing filling as I try to forget the world each afternoon.  Mostly scifi the last few years.)  It would be distracting to have a big boxy tent looming over me, so I've just got them sitting there on a cardboard box.  I hope to replace the box with a little table here soon.
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My rig consists of something like a quarter of the full Amazon Indoor Garden of Tomorrow-orrow-orrow-orrow ®.  This LED light I got is something else, man.  It's REALLY bright!  Paper towel germination, used a few Jiffy pellets, stuck some seeds straight in some old Miracle Grow I had, kept them in the Jiffy box there until they sprouted.  I'm glad to be rid of that Jiffy dome now; it was a pain in the ass.  Ahh.. let's see.. I'm mixing CNS17 Grow into RO/DI water, testing and adjusting up with GH pH kit, pouring it over my little darlings there in about 3:1 coco:perlite.  Just culled and potted up today to 3.5 inches.  All seems to be going well except for some slight canoeing of leaves, which I'm ready to blame on the 24% humidity (We wake up half mummified in the winter.  I know - grow tent.) and a few early spills on my rug.  Trying to keep it simple and not drive myself crazier futzing with dozens of parameters here, so I'm not going to sweat it unless things turn worse.  I'm not!  Worry verges on religion with me, so this will either be therapeutic or turn out to have been a bad idea.. 
Any and all comments or criticisms are very welcome and I thank you all most warmly for having me and schooling me and reading my noodlings! 
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My understanding is BLS is transmitted mostly through direct contact of plants, splashing up of infected soil debris when watering, and through tools (especially cutting tools) and objects that contact an infected plant then another plant.  Insect vectors can also be involved, but if you don't have active biting insects like aphids etc. that is less likely to be a big concern. Simply a small distance (maybe even just a few feet) and not transmitting by tools or touch is likely enough unless insects are an issue.  Healthy and dry plants are more resistant to infection, and, though the hardening-off processes may have caused some weakening, your plants are typically very healthy looking plants.  My previously posted link speaks to control methods (BLS isn't "curable" to my understanding) and I'm also familiar with an H2O2 treatment being effective in retarding its progression, applied as a 1:9 (0.3%) H2O2 solution sprayed on the affected leaves periodically.  I think one could up the concentration to at least a 1:6 without issue (provided controlling against sun exposure), but I'd work my way up rather than starting there.
 
Here's a couple other recent threads/posts I remember re BLS that might interest you.
 
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/71509-help-with-identifying-this-problem-illness/?hl=bls#entry1633772
 
Sorry you might have a problem with your SB Capp.  I hope I'm wrong, but hey, be safe!
 
 
Uncle_Eccoli said:
No, different plant. That one's no longer speckled, but still has one or two leaves yellow and drop per day.
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Good memory DWB!  FWIW, if we're talking about the NuMex Twilight, that looked more like a deficiency pattern to me and this looks different.  And it's good to hear how that issue progressed - or didn't - as feedback.  I'm always reluctant to say something looks like BLS because at the end of the day I simply don't know for sure.
 
CaneDog said:
Good memory DWB!  FWIW, if we're talking about the NuMex Twilight, that looked more like a deficiency pattern to me and this looks different.  And it's good to hear how that issue progressed - or didn't - as feedback.  I'm always reluctant to say something looks like BLS because at the end of the day I simply don't know for sure.
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It was the Amazon Mystery plant and it always had speckles like these until it went outside. Though it's not showing the speckles anymore, it still drops two yellowed leaves a day like clockwork. It's been kept away from other plants since I first complained about it, but has incidentally grazed others a few times. What the cappuccino is doing now looks pretty damned similar to me, though it isn't dropping leaves (yet?).
Several of my plants were showing those speckles for a while there, and I couldn't prove it, but I felt like it was those who had neighbored the cankerous quickie-mart bastard. I sequestered them in the next room under less than ideal conditions until it came time to start moving outside.
I kept everybody from touching as well I could as I hardened them off. The speckles went away once they all took off under the sun and, excepting the original offender, I sort of let it go. As I said above, even Sucko the Obscure has been looking better since he's been outside. All was well until I noticed capp a couple days ago.
 
Siv said:
 
Mine are doing the same when they're small and they are tipping over when they get bigger.
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Right, that's not unusual for pods to start out
erect and then become pendant as they get
heavier. My Aji Amarillo do the same thing.
 
I found lots of aphids on around a quarter of the big plant next to my chair this afternoon. Only thing I can think of to do is mash them until I can get some ladybugs. I'm not about to start spraying stuff in my room and the plant's too big to move.

I was all worried about bugs outside. Funny, my plants outside have no aphids. May just cut the thing down this evening, take suggestions as to what to do with the rig.
 
The problem with indoors is that you don't have any of the natural predators to take care of the aphids. I moved my indoor ones outside when they got infested with aphids and the geckos have taken care of them. I tried neem oil and it helped but didn't eradicate them.
 
From what I've seen pyrethrin is probably a viable cure for a plant that size. I wouldn't want to use it outdoors as it will also kill the insects that are pollinating.
 
Siv said:
From what I've seen pyrethrin is probably a viable cure for a plant that size. I wouldn't want to use it outdoors as it will also kill the insects that are pollinating.
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How's it applied?
 
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