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Old 11-08-2008, 05:18 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible,rec.gardens
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Default Pepper saga.......... Pepper expert anyone?

Google is your friend....pepper plants+diseases....first hit of 254,000+ is
a site with descriptions and pictures of all the problems you've described.

Val


"Marie Dodge" wrote in message
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I've already mentioned the problems with our Bell peppers this year.
Whitefly and spider mite but these may not be the whole problem. I've look
online and can't find these symptoms anywhere. These peppers came from
three different places, some I stared myself last spring. Within a week of
planting them out their leaves looked "strange." Instead of being smooth
and flat, they started to look like seer-sucker, kind of 'puckery' and the
plants failed to make normal growth. As the weeks passed they made buds
but all flowers and buds fell off along with the bottom leaves. Leaves
were still green when they fell. Now over a month later I'm seeing small
yellow spots with dark brown centers and leaves are curling upward
slightly. It's getting paler between the veins. The plants are tall,
spindly, leaves are sparse and only a handful of peppers were produced
from 18 plants. In the past few weeks the spider mites and whitefly
infested them completely and every spray I used failed to make a
difference. Ideas anyone? Thoughts? Suggestions? What disease can this
be?

By this time other years we'd have so many peppers we'd be giving them
away - and from no more than 6 to 10 plants.