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need help on sick pepper plant

Discussion in 'Gardening' started by Smokey B McBongwater, Sep 20, 2018.

  1. #1 Smokey B McBongwater, Sep 20, 2018
    Last edited: Sep 20, 2018
    really having issues with this pepper plant - it's a Lemon Drop hot pepper. never grew one before and not sure of the issue.

    Was in soil outside and brought in for the winter. was replanted in coco coir (70/30 mix coco / perlite). Feeding with first Foxfarm grow to reestablish root in the new medium. It is in a 3gal smart pot grow bag.
    After the first couple weeks i switched to Maxigrow so she could keep flowering and growing peppers.

    I saw a lot of runoff still sitting in the tray under her a number of days so assumed it might have been overwatering making her pale so i made sure and waited till the coco was definitely very dry and rehit her with a small amount of nutrients this morning. - went back to Foxfarm thinking the nitrogen might help the pale yellowing but I'm so confused at this point i'm not sure what the proper course of action is on feeding and which one to give her now, negative or flowering / fruiting.

    The older leaved have gotten progressively more and more yellow and dying / falling off. worst is that the new leaves and growing coming in comes in nice and green but comes in curled in. even brand new growth from new shoots forming off the stem and even they come in curled.

    I tried a cal/mag foliar spray but it actually seemed to make it worse on the curling so I resprayed the plated with a ton of clear water to try to wash off the foliar spay. not sure how effective that was...

    now i'm seeing in last 24 hours or so that older leaves are not just turning pale and yellow over the whole surface with viens still green but now older leaves are starting to have the edges turn even moree yellow light the color change is now coming from the outer edge surrounding the entire leaf and working inward if that makes sense. sorry, don't have a pic of that latest development yet. i'm assuming it's the same issue just presenting progressively worse??

    please/ any ideas would be great.

    hope these pics help, these are from 2 days ago and the yellowing has gotten worst but the curling is the same

    edit: btw, not sure how this helps or not... but 2 different varieties of tomato plants I did the same move inside from outside and replanted in coco coir at the same time and feed the same way are doing great next to this pepper plant, in the same tent, under the same light.
    only difference is the plant.


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  2. There are a few good pages on Facebook for peppers. PodPeople is one.
     
  3. Did you recently have a cold snap?
     

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