Saturday, January 10, 2026

Chili Pepper Plants Update

I threw them all away except for one plant.  Don't know if it was overwatering, underwatering, over fertilizing, thrip bug infestation or something else.

10 comments:

K and S said...

aww bummer

Anonymous said...

try getting a safe systemic (the kind safe for fruits and veggies) and water your plants with that. it's a mite infestation
v

Anonymous said...

Funny how chili pepper plants deposited by the birds, thrive without caring for it. We had one that a bird deposited and it grew huge and gave a lot of peppers without doing much of anything to it. LOL

Hope you can figure out what it is.

Izsmom

Anonymous said...

My pepper plants always suffered during wintertime. The pepper plants do best in full sun in the heat of summer ~ r

Honolulu Aunty said...

It's those dang parasites. If you take it to Koolau Farms Beretania, Jason (starts with a J) is the plant expert. He might say it is the black lace bugs that attach avocado trees and I find them on other plants under their leaves. They are worse than white flies, imo. I sometimes make a container of water with either neem oil or horticultural oil and use a wide brush and brush the underside of the leaves that have the infection. I wear those surgical type gloves because the oily smell lingers on my hands. Humbug work but I figure our plants are worth it.
Good luck with the keikis!

jalna said...

Yup.

jalna said...

Thanks! I'll look into it.

jalna said...

OMG, I'm so jealous.

jalna said...

Hmmmm. It gets so blazing hot here that I have them in the shade. I'll try sun on some for the next batch.

jalna said...

I tried neem oil when they first started dropping their leaves, but maybe I was doing it wrong.