marie:
It sounds like you ruined your plants with all the sprays. you need to read
a good book about integrated pest management, and realize that most sprays
have adverse impacts. you obviously have no clue of the cumulative adverse
impacts of all the chemicals you used. those plants are living things, not
machines. Think for a minute, if you are klilling your plants, what it will
do to you to eat those peppers? then think about all the money you wasted
growing toxic peppers.

I have grown large quantitites of peppers for over 30 years with no
pesticides and only year had a virus problem late in the season associated
with unusual cold and wet weather. Mites and whiteflies should not be a
problem outdoors, their natural enemies will take care of them, but you
killed their natural enemies. remove and compost your plants, forget about
mites. and plant hairy vetch as a cover crop to prepare for next year.


"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.