I'm really scared and sad, but my pepper plant Sherold is dying and I don't know what to do.
He's been alive for almost three years and I've kept him mainly indoors. He did receive a bacterial leaf spot infection on his second year but I managed to cure it somehow with pruning.
Now I think he's got another infection and he's so badly dying I don't know if I can help him. He started off having white spots on his leaves, which I thought to be powdery mildew. I didn't notice it or take care of it as fast as I should have, and before I knew it his leaves were entirely covered. I pruned the ones with the most spots and tried testing Jojoba oil on one of his infected leaves, because I didn't have neem oil at the time. I had to leave to go to a robotics competition during the weekend, but after I came back, all his leaves fell off and all was left were two green stems with black blotches. I started to immediately give him some vegetable fertilizer and water him a bit more (although not too much, because that's what caused his first disease) and pruned the dead branches off. Now he's down to one, yellow, dying stem. I applied some fungicide on him a week ago, but it isn't doing any good, and I couldn't find a copper soap treatment. I'm thinking of planting him back outside since the weather is nicer, but I don't know what good that will do.
What else can I do to help him? And if the stem fully dies, can I revive him just using his roots?
Please help, he means a lot to me.
He's been alive for almost three years and I've kept him mainly indoors. He did receive a bacterial leaf spot infection on his second year but I managed to cure it somehow with pruning.
Now I think he's got another infection and he's so badly dying I don't know if I can help him. He started off having white spots on his leaves, which I thought to be powdery mildew. I didn't notice it or take care of it as fast as I should have, and before I knew it his leaves were entirely covered. I pruned the ones with the most spots and tried testing Jojoba oil on one of his infected leaves, because I didn't have neem oil at the time. I had to leave to go to a robotics competition during the weekend, but after I came back, all his leaves fell off and all was left were two green stems with black blotches. I started to immediately give him some vegetable fertilizer and water him a bit more (although not too much, because that's what caused his first disease) and pruned the dead branches off. Now he's down to one, yellow, dying stem. I applied some fungicide on him a week ago, but it isn't doing any good, and I couldn't find a copper soap treatment. I'm thinking of planting him back outside since the weather is nicer, but I don't know what good that will do.
What else can I do to help him? And if the stem fully dies, can I revive him just using his roots?
Please help, he means a lot to me.