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[Trippa]

thanks wildfire for the info.

Sorry to hear about your issues, Its still early days though so stay positive.

Remove the worst affected plant/s,
Hit the remaining plants with some Organic Copper Soap/Spay fungicide now and at 7 day intervals and avoid foliar watering/feeding (only water the medium and avoid splashing) and try to get the humidity down in the growing environment.

It also pays to reduce Magnesium and calcium additives and ensure potassium and Nitrogen levels are sufficient to ensure plant resistance.

Either that or cut your losses and remove everything including growing medium (which will have to be heat/bleach treated or disposed of) and sterilise your entire operation (a massive job I know) and then start again, with new seeds.

I hate plant problems ...

 

[gasificada]

Yeah there are a few diseases that are seed borne.

Nothing will really cure it now, once you have it then thats it. Copper fungicides can be used to prevent the spores from opening but it can only do so much and there is really no point. It's just a shame cos they were growing so fast and I was getting excited about it all.

Yeah, I was thinking more for treating seeds - not as a cure for affected plants.

After a quick google (haven't fully researched it yet), it appears that camomile does have antiseptic properties too. I wonder if it is actually strong enough though to treat seeds.

So sorry, Candice, that really sucks to say the least.

 

[Wildfire Chilli Australia]

thanks wildfire for the info.

Sorry to hear about your issues, Its still early days though so stay positive.

Remove the worst affected plant/s,
Hit the remaining plants with some Organic Copper Soap/Spay fungicide now and at 7 day intervals and avoid foliar watering/feeding (only water the medium and avoid splashing) and try to get the humidity down in the growing environment.

It also pays to reduce Magnesium and calcium additives and ensure potassium and Nitrogen levels are sufficient to ensure plant resistance.

Either that or cut your losses and remove everything including growing medium (which will have to be heat/bleach treated or disposed of) and sterilise your entire operation (a massive job I know) and then start again, with new seeds.

I hate plant problems ...

Thanks for your info too.
These plants were fed by drippers in a hydro system so there was no splashing and I don't think I would be able to spray them as the lights would probably burn them unless I did it when they were off but still it probably isn't going to cure the problem completely and i won't be around/have the time to do that with the new baby coming. So prob best just to rip them and start again before I loose anymore time. I did read about reducing calcium/magnesium but to tell you the truth I think they are actually lacking some of that as the leaves are quite bubbly in appearance.

Yeah, I was thinking more for treating seeds - not as a cure for affected plants.

After a quick google (haven't fully researched it yet), it appears that camomile does have antiseptic properties too. I wonder if it is actually strong enough though to treat seeds.

So sorry, Candice, that really sucks to say the least.

Yeah people do use it as a treatment for seeds which I was going to do with my next lot but I'm prob better off using a 20% bleach solution and warm/hot water. I thought perhaps if I mixed the tea with it i might have double protection but mixing usually creates other problems!

 

[Trippa]

Yeah with a baby on the way the last thing you really need is labour intensive jobs like trying to control spores Best of luck with everything whatever you decide to do

 

[Micca302]

What do you guys see as my avatar? I still see the peace bomb!

I did see you on your Avatar when I was a work, but when I got home a little while ago it was back to the Peace sign, then I read posts then logged in and now you are back again I'll see what you turn into next


Hey Bummer there Candice. Whatever it is it doesn't look good, maybe take a leaf down to a Nursery and see if they can identify it?
Wouldn't be nice having to start again, hope you get on top of it.

Micca

 

[tonyscoots84]

Its workin now

 

[Trippa]

Well I am pretty stoked,

Woke up this morning to find that (after only having the new propagator set up properly for 1.5 days basically), I have another new baby coming through (Just) and its one of the Varieties I am most looking forward to growing/eating a Bonda Ma Jacques.

My first Chinense var. ever!!

 

[gasificada]

Well I am pretty stoked,

Woke up this morning to find that (after only having the new propagator set up properly for 1.5 days basically), I have another new baby coming through (Just) and its one of the Varieties I am most looking forward to growing/eating a Bonda Ma Jacques.

My first Chinense var. ever!!

I am growing Bonda Ma Jacques for the first time this year. I did try a couple years ago but the seed I had at the time must have been bad and I never got one to germinate.

 

[Nova]

Cant go wrong with the Bondas. They make an AWESOME pineapple based sauce. Yummy.

 

[Wildfire Chilli Australia]

Thanks guys.
Yeah I was thinking of where I could take the leaf to double check.

Well done Trippa. Chinense are my favourite varieties not only for heat but flavour too.

 

[Trippa]

Yeah looking forward to growing these out ... along with all my varieties this year.

It may mean some of the plants find new homes at a friend simply so I have room to grow out the different varieties I am going to have

 

[Nova]

Just got a Chiletepin hook up from redtails seed. It's so cute heehee.

 

[Trippa]

Just got a Chiletepin hook up from redtails seed. It's so cute heehee.

Cool... its seems its a good time to be germinating

 

[JungleRain]

Dammmnnn your having bad luck Candice, sorry to hear, what variety was it, is there any seeeds I can send you???

Trippa :
I have tried bugs for bugs through bunnings with no problems. there is also another place I order from that I have put a link up earlier in this thread I think. I'm in some need of some bugs but don't know if I should do a big spray first and then wait awhile as they are all a bit out of hand and you should do the release before the problem gets too big.

Now another problem... Noticed in my hydro setup that some of the leaves have lesions on them, took a closer look and it seems to be on a few. Looked it up on the net and think it might be bacterial leaf spot. Anyone had this before? What do you reckon?

Front of leaf

Back of leaf (sorry for bad pic, file seems corrupted)

If so this can be carried on from infected plants which seed are saved from (not mine from another source). So went and looked at the other plants in the hothouse (from same seed batch) and they look like they are starting to get it too! So pi**ed off. If that is what it is then I might as well rip up all these plants, as I wont be able to save seed anyway and then I will need to totally sterilise everything and I have completely wasted over a months growing time! To make it worse I have been taking water out of my hydro room's reservoir and feeding that to my seedlings and numerous other plants so more than likely everything will have it. What a total waste of time and money aaaggghhhh almost ready to give up on this season before it has begun.

I'm glad everything is working out ok for everyone else though and sorry to be the downer. I will definately be treating all seeds with a bleach solution from now on. wonder if you could mix chammomile tea with it also or if that is just pointless.

 

[JungleRain]

Fantastic growth on that baby, how old is it and what are you using to grow it, great job Jonny

Check out the stem on my TS Yellow baby:

Bad boys, bad boys, wotcha gonna dooo....

 

[Micca302]

Yeah looking forward to growing these out ... along with all my varieties this year.

It may mean some of the plants find new homes at a friend simply so I have room to grow out the different varieties I am going to have

I see you are starting to get the bug there Trippa.
Soon you will be like the rest of us and be growing at your friends house, parents, Work and anywhere else you can get away with it

Micca

 

[megamoo]

My greenhouse has aphids There are only a few at the moment but they are definitely in there. It's not all bad tho !
I thought I had a different type of bug as well because it looks like a brown hard aphid and I was about to spray everything with evil death

Luckily I looked online and found out they are aphid mummies. Apparently little wasps lay eggs inside the aphids and they eat them from the inside out leaving a dried up husk aphid mummy. I heard that other bugs did this but didn't know what it looked like. Nature can be cruel can't it.

So now I'll stop squishing the brown ones, only green ones and hold off on the chemical warfare.

 

[Nova]

You can still apply liberal doses of Neem Mega. I would

Just gave a dirt nap to twenty seeds. Two each of Purple Tiger, Devils Tounge, Fatalii, cap 1481, White Flower pube, Not Dorset, Trinidad Hab, pi 614001, Black Pearl, Datil x Limon. Thanks Mega, Gassy, Junglerain, Redtail and Neil! What an awesome bunch of generous growers!

 

[Trippa]

I see you are starting to get the bug there Trippa.
Soon you will be like the rest of us and be growing at your friends house, parents, Work and anywhere else you can get away with it

Micca

Yeah its definitely a good bug to get though .. and its great there are others around with it!!

My greenhouse has aphids There are only a few at the moment but they are definitely in there. It's not all bad tho !
I thought I had a different type of bug as well because it looks like a brown hard aphid and I was about to spray everything with evil death

Luckily I looked online and found out they are aphid mummies. Apparently little wasps lay eggs inside the aphids and they eat them from the inside out leaving a dried up husk aphid mummy. I heard that other bugs did this but didn't know what it looked like. Nature can be cruel can't it.

So now I'll stop squishing the brown ones, only green ones and hold off on the chemical warfare.

I would hit them with Neem as Nova said and then introduce some lacewings or something in later to continue the control ... better to be safe then sorry

You can still apply liberal doses of Neem Mega. I would

Just gave a dirt nap to twenty seeds. Two each of Purple Tiger, Devils Tounge, Fatalii, cap 1481, White Flower pube, Not Dorset, Trinidad Hab, pi 614001, Black Pearl, Datil x Limon. Thanks Mega, Gassy, Junglerain, Redtail and Neil! What an awesome bunch of generous growers!

Nice list Nova and good luck with them

 

[Nova]

Cheers trippa, just checked the ph of the water that i soaked the jiffies in. 9.5 I soaked ten pellets in about 700ml of water that normally reads 8.5, anyone else notice that jiffies are high ph?