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Pepper webby thingamajig

11 years ago

Hi guys,

Spent the morning harvesting peppers. I don't know how you guys do this with the sheer number of plants some of you have....I get through 3 plants and I am bent over groaning from back pain.

As you can see, I was in so much pain I chopped off the tops of the Takanotsume. I'd be laid up in bed if I had harvested them properly. I may have killed the plant but we'll see.

OK, now for the question I have. I found about 7-8 spots with this fuzzy webbing kind of stuff. Don't know what to call it. I would guess mealy bugs, but there's no bug....which I would almost always find if it were mealy bugs, no?

I tossed anything -- leaf or pepper -- with evidence of this on it but wanted to ask in case I was not totally thorough. I plan to powder these, and want to make sure it's not going to make all of sick.

Oh, and I want to call Guinness. I think I produced the world's smallest ripe pepper. Do you see it? Lol

Thank you!

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  • 11 years ago

    Just wash the webbing off. It can't hurt you and you're wasting good peppers by throwing out what they touched. Spiders are your friends. They are all carnivorous and only eat the bad guys. Mealy bugs don't leave webs; they just look like they have tufts of webs on their bodies.

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