Hi Everyone,
This is my first post on the forum, and my first year growing chillies!
To let you know where I'm at.... I bought a multipack of seeds from a website online, consisting of 1 packet of every type they had, and I planted approximately 4 seeds of each (Total of 64 plants).
Approximately 50 survived past germination, some didn't germinate, some grew their first 2 leaves and then stopped. I now have them outside in pots, of varying sizes (I live in the City and space is an issue), depending on their variety. Biggest pots are for cayennes, down to sparkler/stumpy/prairie fire in small pots.
Most of them are going well, however I'm having trouble with a few very strange leaves, this is affecting about 4-5 plants and strangely enough 3 of them are lemon drop.
Doing research on this forum and other places, I THINK it is either a calcium deficiency (I have the higher end of hard water in my area), or else it is some kind of pest, possibly a thrip, I found one of the plant, but nearly all of them are clear, do they have preferred species to infest?
Anyway, here's a few pics, hopefully you can help me identify and potentially save these plants, or recommend I ditch them to save the rest. I couldn't work out the best way to link them, so just stuck them in an imgur album.
Any help greatly appreciated.
http://imgur.com/a/EkP1E
This is my first post on the forum, and my first year growing chillies!
To let you know where I'm at.... I bought a multipack of seeds from a website online, consisting of 1 packet of every type they had, and I planted approximately 4 seeds of each (Total of 64 plants).
Approximately 50 survived past germination, some didn't germinate, some grew their first 2 leaves and then stopped. I now have them outside in pots, of varying sizes (I live in the City and space is an issue), depending on their variety. Biggest pots are for cayennes, down to sparkler/stumpy/prairie fire in small pots.
Most of them are going well, however I'm having trouble with a few very strange leaves, this is affecting about 4-5 plants and strangely enough 3 of them are lemon drop.
Doing research on this forum and other places, I THINK it is either a calcium deficiency (I have the higher end of hard water in my area), or else it is some kind of pest, possibly a thrip, I found one of the plant, but nearly all of them are clear, do they have preferred species to infest?
Anyway, here's a few pics, hopefully you can help me identify and potentially save these plants, or recommend I ditch them to save the rest. I couldn't work out the best way to link them, so just stuck them in an imgur album.
Any help greatly appreciated.
http://imgur.com/a/EkP1E
