Brown Spot/Brown Color... Need advise what to do...

9 years ago

hi,

pretty new in pepper gardening. There is some brown color besides green in the leaf, can pls help what to do? No chemical used, plant are growing in vermicast and garden soil.

thank you!

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ozzy2001
9 years ago
That soil/ vermicast looks pretty wet. I'm fairly new at this as well but I believe you want "potting" soil for a plant that small. The roots should be able to dry out.
DMForcier
9 years ago
See if you can get a close up of the older leaves. I can't tell what the spots are. Could be a pest, but it looks more like chemical burn. Fortunately the new growth looks pretty good.

As above, peppers do not like wet feet. You have to plant in well-draining, well-aerated soil, and be careful about over-watering. (I've never seen vermicast so I don't know how well it qualifies for potting soil.)

Have you been using worm wash?

Good luck,
Dennis
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starter_gardener
Original Author
9 years ago
i just watered the pepper, i usually have 3 to 4 days interval before i water them again with rain water or sun evaporated water.

my vermicast mix is 1 vermi and 1 garden soil mix together

water drain is good, water just pass the soil when i water.

what is worm wash?

here are other pics of it.

thank you!
greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a
9 years ago
Yikes, garden soil is about the worst you can use. It is incredibly moisture retentive and fine/silty, leading to compaction and lack of aeration. I can't tell what we're seeing in the leaves, but it could be lack of oxygen, could be excess salts....

Josh
starter_gardener
Original Author
9 years ago
I see i see probably, need to change my soil and see what will happen.

Any recomendation what type of soil i can use to improve ?

Thank you!

Ken
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
9 years ago
soil is mother earth ...

media is what is used in pots ...

media is create to manage water .. in a pot ..

soil ... dirt ... is near impossible .. in my experience.. to MANAGE... in pots ... eventually it compresses.. and the water sheds to the edges.. and down the side.. and the middle goes bone dry ....

and your goal.. is to have exactly all the same media.. in every pot.. so as to know.. that when one pot is dry.. they PROBABLY are all dry ... you dont mention if you made a big batch of your mix...

you water.. when your pot needs water ... not on some schedule ... watering every 4 days.. may or may not be proper ...

experiment.. to find out.. i would to not water.. until the plant slightly wilts.. and then you will have some idea.. how often to water ... and you can also FEEL the weight difference in the pot ...

but .... your problem might be.. with the limited 'flow thru' of dirt in a pot... you may never be able to rewet the pot completely ... and unfortunately ... you will never really know what is going on in the pot ... until you break one open ...

the best investment ... really the only investment [other than the seed itself] .... is a high quality media ...

i know nothing about worm castings... but as far as i am concerned [probably heresy to the wormers.. lol] .. its just another form of dirt ... you have no structure in your media... things that create large gaps.. so water can run thru the whole ...

i am sure you can track down one of the thousands of posts on als gritty mix .... and if you read thru a few.. you should be able to grasp some of the concepts i mention .... especially if you find Als primer on such .... see link

good luck

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: link
starter_gardener
Original Author
9 years ago
Wow this really open up my understanding and its a big help, i keep on pushing that my plants might be on pest but as i think now your correct and i also noticed when i remove 1 its like a big clay and yes when i wAter everything runs on the side. This really helps much thank you!
DMForcier
9 years ago
Worm wash is the liquid that drains off when you make vermicast. Apparently some use it to water the garden, like a fertilizer mix.

I think Josh and the other Ken are on the right track. Get some Potting Mix, not Garden Soil or even Potting Soil. I would be leery of vermicast, especially in a started mix, because I don't know its characteristics and pH. It may be useful, but try it on older plants.

Dennis
randy355
9 years ago
I might be opening up a can of worms here (no pun ) but in my area a lot of growers use aprox 20% worm castings in their soil along with a top layer it seems that the plants uptake a enzyme that acts like acid to aphids, white fly, and most other insects and keeps them away. I tried it seems to work, thirty plants with it no bugs forty five plants without free night at the buffet line. I was told one of the commercial nursery's locally is trying it on a large scale and having good results.
Myself I use a concentrated worm casting - bat guano from germination through the life of the plant in hydro and dirt and it seems to work

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