July 27, 2015 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alabama
Posts: 7,068
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disease or stink bugs?
All of my bell peppers are producing like crazy this summer despite the heat but I am also throwing away over half of them as I pick them and most of the others have so many flaws on them that I only get half the usable flesh off them. They start developing these round soft spots that are slightly sunken in about the time they start changing color and the spots increase in size and number as they ripen. By the time they are fully red or yellow many are so covered by these spots they are unusable. Frequently these spots cause terrible rotting if they get too bad on a pepper. I have been using Daconil, copper, and the bleach spray to stop this without much success though it has improved on some of them. No pesticides have been applied to them at all other than the little amount of soap in the sprays. I know I have stink bugs but they are not noticebly everywhere like I saw last year but could they be causing this or is it a type of disease that just doesn't respond to the regular fungicides I have been using? I am also getting a lot of sun scald due to the intense sun this year but that is to be expected and is just a normal part of mid summer pepper production down here. I have also had a fair number of my peppers fall prey to TSWV this year so about a quarter of them have had to be removed but the same thing has happened to the tomatoes.
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