Thai Pepper leaf drop

13 years ago

I have this Thai pepper plant that upon transfer to my compost soil dropped the leves and never recovered. It is still alive and even produced one very small pepper, but yet it just sits there. I gets plenty of sun, and the soil stays pretty moist, although I do travel and it can go up to 5 days without watering. But after such a length of time the plant looks no worse off than when I left. It has been in this state for about 2 months now.

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Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
13 years ago
Hi & welcome to Gardenweb! Wish I could see anything positive to say about this plant...

Those green nodules look like some kind of disease or parasite, never seen anything like that on a pepper plant. You may want to start over with a new plant. Unfortunately this one looks beyond redemption.

For any potted plant, the soil shouldn't stay soggy, ever. Without leaves, a plant's water needs are negligible, so it could take a month or two to dry out from just evaporation if the soil is composed of mostly fine particles and thus very water-retentive. Sorry to say but I would discard that soil too in addition to the plant.
montree
Original Author
13 years ago
Ok I will do thanks for your input.
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chloeasha
13 years ago
Oh, so sorry about your plant. I agree with Purpleinopp. Maybe try again with another one and don't change soils this time. Maybe it really resented being disturbed.