-
Do you need help identifying a 🌶?
Is your plant suffering from an unknown issue? 🤧
Then ask in Identification and Diagnosis.
health SOMETHINGS WRONG
- Thread starter Noshownate
- Start date
thanx all soo much im going to be dolomiting my plants before i go to work then when i get home hopefully be some changes and my girl is going to be bringing home some epsom and milk , we go through milk fast mmm choc milk
Dolomite is calcium magnesium carbonate, limestone is calcium carbonate.
http://www.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/dolomite/dolomite.htm
http://www.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/dolomite/dolomite.htm
srin2 said:
I use my fingers to evict them. Just walked outside this morning and the leaves of my Trinidad Scorpions where curled up and all full of little spiders! If that is your problem a mild soap solution should chase them off. Moving them sometimes helps too. Like my Aji Lucento. It was on my back porch. Then I transplanted it and moved it to the driveway and the little spiders disappeared. Apparently they relocated to my Scorpions.... but they do keep the aphids away.....
would like to see your plants scarpetti, got some epsom salt today just mixed some in a spray bottle sprayed all the leaves. didnt see much improvement from the dolomite yet soo hopefully will some some changes in the morning.
good to heAR!
bad news and good news the leaves are green but cupping still going on veru bad even on the new growth, really don't want to lose another plant this year. (i tried dolomite and epsom)
Check for thrips or aphids. I had a problem like this with some of my peppers and realized it was aphids after doing some research online and checking all the leaves. I tried to use some safer soap/neem oil, but also read too much of that can also cause problems with peppers so ended up getting a bag of 500-600 lady bugs and the problem went away in days. I try and keep them as organic as possible and try avoid using chemicals to treat one problem that may result in another probably like high PH. I found nature to be a good solution for a "natural" problem.
Try potting the plant in fresh medium and check the roots.
I am still having a little cupping on mine as well after treating for the same problem. But I am holding off on doing anything to treat for anything else as my plant has exploded with new growth and producing leave on top of leave, making a jumbled mess. And I have no insects of any type lurking on my plant.
going to try that silevr sufer at night tonight. I Have been finding a couple lady bugs on my plants lately. I did have a few aphids on my fatalii but not on the problem plant. What are thrips? what am i looking for on or in the roots when i am transplanting?
You should see white healthy roots and not a water logged mass in the bottom of the pot. If you have root rot the outer sheath or skin of the root will easily slip off and the roots will be a unhealthy dark color.
Thrips are sap suckers and can be controlled with Spinosad. Good luck
Thrips are sap suckers and can be controlled with Spinosad. Good luck
Silver_Surfer said:
Thrips dont suck sap, they rasp at the leaves with knife like appendages...
So, they are "vegative scrapers".
As to what they look like, they are as thin as a needle, elongated and move like a worm, they can jump like fleas and can fly. They dont alwayse have wings, the younger thrips are wingless but move pretty much the same way as the adults.
Places to find them, under leaves, inside open flowers and in the top inch or so of soil.
oh damn ok the roots are brownish.
some leaves getting brown on them. not sure what i can do
white hab is green but cupping like crazy and others are starting to too.
some leaves getting brown on them. not sure what i can do
white hab is green but cupping like crazy and others are starting to too.
RichardK said:
thrip - a minute black winged insect that sucks plant sap and can be a serious pest of ornamental and food plants when present in large numbers. Order Thysanoptera
http://www.rhodyman.net/rhodyglo.html
thrip - any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=thrips
Thrips (Order Thysanoptera) are tiny, slender insects with fringed wings (thus the scientific name, from the Greek thysanos (fringe) + pteron (wing)). Other common names for thrips include thunderflies, thunderbugs, storm flies, and corn lice. Thrips species feed on a large variety of sources both plant and animal by puncturing them and sucking up the contents. A large number of thrips species are considered pests, because they feed on plants with commercial value. Some species of thrips feed on other insects or mites and are considered beneficial, while some feed on fungal spores or pollen. So far around 5,000 species have been described. Thrips are generally tiny (1 mm long or less) and are not good flyers, although they can be carried long distances by the wind. In the right conditions, many species can explode in population and swarm everywhere, making them an irritation to humans.
Like the words sheep or moose, the word thrips is used for both the singular and plural forms. So while there may be many thrips there can also be a solitary thrips. The word thrips is from the Greek, meaning wood louse.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrips
Noshownate said:oh damn ok the roots are brownish.
some leaves getting brown on them. not sure what i can do
to too.
Was the soil water logged and did the root sheath slip?
No root pics?
"Roots brownish", doesn't sound like a root problem, but pics would help.