Re: PROBLEMS WITH PEPPERS
Angelo,
*Are these container peppers?
*Have they been in in the same pots for the years you mentioned?
*Do you or others smoke tobacco?
These are some of the ?s that your problem prompts.
First of all if you are keeping these plants going, year to year, in their
containers,you can expect that they will slowly become stunted.The root ball
simply has no where to grow after a season or two and hence the bonsai
effect....
While they are perennial they produce vigrous plants with more peppers when
started from fresh seed each year.True for growing in soil as well.(Tests have
proven this)..
If you have oddly twisted, thickend foliage, it could also be Tobacco mosaic
,smokers can spread this easily to suseptible pepper plants..I doubt it from
what you have said but its always worth mentioning just in case..
I sympathize with you over this mysterious problem as I too love peppers and
have grown many hundreds over the years..If you would let me know(send to me
personally off the list) what peppers you require to keep up your collection I
will check to see if I have them or something similiar..
Connie
> At 10:44 AM 2/22/00 -0300, you wrote:
> >Dear List members,
> >I got a collection of 30+ peppers. Until recently everything was going
> >fine. Suddenly, starting with a pepper plant that is the oldest one (4
> >years old), new leaves came out extremely small, plenty of flowers that
> >resulted in fruits the size of a pea or less. Then the 'thing' or
> >whatever it is spread to other pepper plants despite those are in large
> >pots instead of beddings and far from the problematic initial plants. As
> >even some rare peppers were reached I'm affraid that my collection will
> >be reduced to worthless 'bonsai' looking pepper plants.
> >Any advice will be welcone.
> >
> >Angelo Clarizia
> >
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