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Real healthy looking Habanero, sick looking flowers.. ideas?

7 years ago

So I have a real healthy looking Habanero, lush green leaves, very bushy.. the only issue with it is that my flowers never fruit. They have all been falling off and the stems of the flowers have these spots on them.. any ideas what could be causing this?

I've stopped using fertilizer on it for now.. I was using Fish Fertilizer once a month and a month ago or so I shoved in a Jobe's tomato food stick, 6-18-6. I used the same Jobe's stick in all my peppers and they are all very bushy, green and all have a ton of fruits except my Habanero.

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esox07 (4b) Wisconsin

7 years ago

You probably quit looking at it ever 15 minutes and gave it a chance to do it's reproduction in privacy.

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habjolokia z 6b/7
7 years ago
Usually the flowers look like that when no pollination occurs and the flowers dry up and fall off. Is it in a spot that it's blocked from good wind? Between two other plants? C.chinese will more readily drop flowers with temps at 90+ degrees.
tfoster802002
Original Author
7 years ago
I've been manually pollinating them.. it gets some decent wind where I'm at.. and the temps haven't been hot at all. Between 75-85 every day for weeks now.

Some of the flowers look sterile, like sometimes i'll manually pollinate them and i can see pollen coming off the flower, sometimes nothing comes off.

It's in a pot so it does sit in between some other peppers..
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esox07 (4b) Wisconsin
7 years ago
The easiest way to aid pollination that I know of is to flick the blooms every day. I have been told that the best time of the day to do this is mid afternoon.

Don't worry, when the plant is ready, it will set fruit. They always do.

The good thing about habaneros is that they put out a lot of peppers. In the mean time, laying off the fertilizers is a good idea.
tfoster802002
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7 years ago
I FINALLY got a couple of the flowers to pollinate and are starting to produce a fruit!! Not sure what changed with the plant but it does look to be finally producing fruit!
tfoster802002
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7 years ago
Haha, I have a shy Habanero. We have some real hot weather coming up, supposed to be 90-95 degrees in Southern California over the next few days.. I'm going to shade my peppers, but was wondering would a fan gently blowing on them help keep them cool?
esox07 (4b) Wisconsin
7 years ago
No, I don't think a fan would do a lot for them. The shade will be the best bet.

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