On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:50:16 -0600, Janice
wrote:

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:13:32 -0400, "Tom Hooper"
wrote:

One of my pepper plants has rotting fruit. It's not blossom end rot, as
the rotting is in the middle of the pepper. They look OK until about 3"
long, then rot in spots. Could it be the rain or condensation?

snip possibilities

Another thing that affects peppers is sun scald, particularly when
they're kind of wet and the sun shines on them...that ends up a few
days later a whitish area with stretched whitish dry papery membrane
over the affected area.

I have never (knock wood) experienced any pepper diseases, but *have*
had sun-scald. This generally happens to early fruit when the 'leaf
canopy' is relatively small. Nasty black patches.

Another 'early fruit' problem, BTW, is peppers expanding in the 'V' of
branches. I guess it happens because the peppers form closer to the
stem than they do later. It's something to watch out for, as the
expanding pepper can split a branch.