Blossom end rot?

13 years ago

I have been growing these mixes peppers for over two years now and they've just started growing actual peppers. I know this is due to the cold climate, even though I bring them in during fall and winter.
I noticed that many of the peppers appear to be rotting on the vine even though they are mostly indoors.
I did some research and thought it might be blossom end rot, but the photos I've seen of the plant condition look different from my peppers. The spots on my pepper looks moist, unlike the dry patches I've seen on other photos of BER plants. The inside of the plant looks fine and the leaves are very healthy looking. I have also found that the seeds are still viable from these damaged peppers.
I've attached a photo of the damage.
Any ideas on what the problem is and how it might be fixed?

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thegreatcob
13 years ago
that is no blossom end rot.
planatus
13 years ago
Pepper anthracnose is my best guess. Could be another fungus, possibly alternaria of some sort, but it is a fungus. Clip off and destroy every affected fruit to stop the spread of spores.

Although peppers and eggplants will grow as perennials, their best health and productivity is in their first year. After that they get tired.
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sunnibel7 Md 7
13 years ago
Planatus, I think a number of people on the Hot Pepper forum would disagree with your statement about the first year being the most productive year for pepper plants. Many of them claim better production on the second year, if my memory serves me correctly.

Yume, I would suggest reading some of the threads on the Hot Pepper Forum about overwintering peppers inside, they usually clip off the pods and let the plants rest without the burden of trying to produce fruit during the low light conditions of winter. Anyway, are these spots on green fruit as well as ripe fruit? Do you have the plants under any additional lights or are they just on a windowsill? Are they very close to a cold window or a hot heating vent? Are you watering too often? Something about the pocture just makes me feel like the plant is struggling in sub-prime conditions and that is being reflected in the fruit.
yumekichigai
Original Author
13 years ago
I have them under a 100% spectrum light during the day that I turn of at night. They are watered a couple times a week. The plant itself is doing very well. It is bright green and growing faster than ever before. It is producing flowers continually, although I am not cross pollenating anymore them so they won't grow peppers indoors.
The spots have only seemed to occur on fully ripe or almost fully ripe peppers (but this is tricky to determine since the peppers themselves grow slowly). The room mainly heated with a space heater that is not near the plant. Although it can sometimes get on the cold side when I'm gone (but well above freezing) since I can't leave the heater unattended with pets in the house. My first thought was a fungus, but it has not prevented the viability of the seeds inside the pepper.
Thanks for some of the insights that have been given so far.