Re: PROBLEMS WITH PEPPERS
Hi, Angelo
Container-grown peppers do show sign of exhaustion and old-age after 3-4
years with symptoms similar to the ones you describe. In case these are
rare plants and the seeds hard to find, propagation by cuttings would be a
quick remedy. They should root easily before the beginning of the cooler
weather and make good growth next spring. Try several cuttings from each
variety.
All the best,
Rose-Marie
>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
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