Bulgarian pepper disease is the result of improper care

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-07 20:55

Bulgarian pepper or, as it is also called, sweet is a heat-loving plant. It comes from Africa and is used to the sun, warm breeze and low humidity. Therefore, in our climatic conditions, one or another disease of bell pepper or various pests may appear. Today we will talk about what diseases this plant is susceptible to, what insects can damage the crop, how to prevent this.

Diseases of sweet pepper

Like all cultivated plants, bell pepper diseases (photo attached) are divided into viral, bacterial and fungal. Most often, signs of the following diseases can be found on this plant of the nightshade family:

• with white rot, the upper part of the plant withers, and the bottom of the stem rots;
• gray rot is characterized by spots on fruits of light green color andbrown dots on them;
• the base of the fruit covered with brown spots is a disease of bell pepper called brown rot;
• tobacco mosaic (leaves with dark and light green stripes);
• fusarium wilt, in which yellowed leaves and shoots wither;
• black leg - a disease characteristic of peppers grown in a greenhouse, manifested by blackening of the stem at the base, as a result, the plant dies;
• fusarium - a disease in which leaves are shed;
• late blight - hard dark spots on fruits, often at their ends;
• spotted wilt - leaves with a purple tint and brown spots, fruits ringed with rims from green to yellow;
• root rot - this disease can appear both on seedlings and on an adult plant.

How to treat bell pepper disease?

All these ailments appear due to high humidity or due to improper care. They are treated by drying the soil, loosening and sprinkling with wood ash. It is recommended to remove the affected bushes and burn them in order to prevent infection of other plants. If the disease has just begun to manifest itself, then the pepper is sprayed with fungicides or Fundazol.

Pepper pests

Most often this plant is attacked by the following insects:

• Aphids that appear on leaves and then spread to the whole plant. itthe insect drinks all the juices, and as a result, the pepper dies.
• Spider mites. Works like aphids, but leaves a characteristic web.
• Naked slugs that damage fruits. As a result, they rot and become unusable.

To combat all insects, the plant is sprayed with Karbofos or Keltan.

Care instructions

All diseases and pests of bell pepper in most cases are the result of errors in care. You need to know the following:

water pepper no more than twice a week with warm water;

for the whole summer, fertilize up to five times with mullein, bird droppings, urea or complex mineral fertilizers;

pinch the tops of the plant and remove extra stepchildren;

regularly loosen the soil and spud the plant;

• remove weeds;
• before sowing, it is recommended to disinfect seeds and soil.

And, of course, under favorable weather conditions, when it is not very hot and not cold, no bell pepper disease will ruin your harvest.