need pepper help

13 years ago

so i am posting a picture of my carmen sweet pepper (left pic) and my golden cayenne (right pic). i dont know if its all the weather changing; i.e. tons of rain one week, now very hot weather (in the 90s), but but plants seem to be turning yellow leaves and not growing at all anymore.
as you can see the sweet pepper on left is bigger has 2 peppers on it, but they have been that size for about a week or more (even before yellowing started to happen)
the cayanne (right pic) is way smaller has one pepper also that hasnt budged much lately and has also dropped a few flowers and fruit stems. now this one too is yellowing and not growing taller either. it was transplanted almost a month ago, started growing slow and steady and now yellowing and losing flowers. some of them look ready to open to fruit but i have seen no sign of it happening last few days.
this is a raised garden i have this year as i had my patio landscaped. the soil is slightly acidic to about nuetral upon my testing. last year i had grew cayenne's very easily and that was in a tiny recatngualr shaped small box that i hung on my fence with potting soil. this year my larger bigger garden seems to be halting any growth or production.
the only plant doing great is my grape tomato which is about 4.5 ft tall now and producing fruit slow but steady.

any help or advice for my pepper problem? or is it just a casuality of some crazy weather this season on the east coast.

thanks
mike

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mdy113
Original Author
13 years ago
close up of golden cayenne plant, also as u can see lower leaves have fallen off
woohooman San Diego CA zone 10a
13 years ago
Probably too much rain. It will snap out of it. May have also washed out some of the nutrients. Scratch around the base of the plant with your fingers an inch or so deep -- it will help dry out the soil some. Then add a tad of fish ferts. You may want to clip that first fruit so the plant goes back into foliage mode. Also, if the rains have let up, don't overwater. Deep soak, let dry up a lot, deep soak, and so on. After it starts growing again, you may want to mulch to regulate the soil temp and moisture.

Good luck.

Kevin
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springtogarden
13 years ago
Mine are doing the same. Right after I planted them, we had torrential rains. Then we went to extreme heat. So they are in shock still. One has started flowering and has a bell pepper on it so I think they are slowly coming back.
seysonn
13 years ago
After TOO MUCH rain, probably the nutrients have leached down. The yellowing and pale color indicates that too. So fertilizing can help.

Also , with hot weather I would put a thick layer of mulch(pines straw, wheat straw, ..) that will help to keep the weeds away, keep roots cooler, preserve moisture longer.
mdy113
Original Author
13 years ago
thanks for the comments, i may add some mulch. but even if nutrients leaching out, do leaves fall because of this too? just worried bout falling leaves and flowers
woohooman San Diego CA zone 10a
13 years ago
The leaves are probably falling from too much water and the flowers may also. But the flowers/pods will also fall because of high and low temps, amongst other things. that's whay with more months of extreme heat coming, mulch is the way to go. Mulch will also help extend your season some when the temps start to drop. I'm all about the mulch-- the benefits far exceeds the drawbacks.

Kevin
springtogarden
13 years ago
Thanks, Kevin for the mulch info! I am going to put some more down as mine has melded into the soil. Not enough I guess. But this site is great. I've already learned so much.