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Something eating leaves off my plants please help

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

Menifee-CA

Something has been devouring my plants. Mainly my pepper plants. I have lost more than 40 pepper sprouts. This morning the leaves on my ghost pepper, that pepper, and red bell pepper are gone. Whatever it is, has also begun to eat the leaves on my orange bell pepper, green bell pepper, eggplant, and okra.

I have tried using SEVIN, for insects, MONTEREY B.t. for worms/caterpilars, and then the other night I noticed 3 slugs en route to my garden so I bought ORTHO BUG-GETA.

The plants used to be on concrete and a few on the outside countertop where they had no issues. Over the past week I have been building my garden on the side of my house where I transferred the plants, Turf is laid down, and plants are elevated on pallets. This is when the madness ensued.

Any and all information, help, and advice is very much appreciated. Thank you everyone.

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6 years ago

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marlon_roldan
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6 years ago
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JXBrown (Sunset 24, N San Diego County)
6 years ago
Snails, slugs.

Sluggo.
vgkg Z-7 Va
6 years ago
Mice? or maybe worse, rats? Check the bottom of the pots for slugs, whatever it is it's hungry.
turnage (8a TX)
6 years ago
I had a problem with grasshoppers eating my seedling starter plants one year. Pesticides were useless. Finally had to cover with tulle.
marlon_roldan
Original Author
6 years ago
@vgkg its weird because it seems to only happen when on the side of the house on the turf.

now that its on the concrete by the sliding door. No damage to the plants but this is only day one since i transferred it. So we will see..

no slugs under any pallets or under any pots.
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marlon_roldan
Original Author
6 years ago
@randy41_1 my yard is fenced off. So no deer or goats
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marlon_roldan
Original Author
6 years ago
@jxbrown lowes nearby didnt have sluggo so i bought the bug-geta. I believe the only difference is that main ingredient. Iron phosphate vs metaldehyde. IF there is slugs, they didnt go after the bug geta. But like i said to @vgkg, i did not see slugs under anything. I transferred the plants to a concrete area yesterday and no snail trail or damage to my plants
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marlon_roldan
Original Author
6 years ago
@turnage. Did the grasshoppers feed during the night and clean out the leaves Completely?
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marlon_roldan
Original Author
6 years ago
Thank you EVERYONE for your responses!!!
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party_music50
6 years ago
If I saw damage like that on my peppers, I'd suspect rabbits or caterpillars.
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turnage (8a TX)
6 years ago
When I had the grasshopper problem, it was during one of the drought years in Texas. Really hot and really dry and the grasshoppers were feeding on everything. Some of the smallest seedlings, they ate down to the dirt.
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Don V Zone 5-6 Cleveland OH
6 years ago
Most likely mice or maybe chipmunks definitely not snails. Snap traps with peanuts for mice and 5 gallon buck 1/3 full with water floating sunflower seeds and a ramp to top for chipmunks.
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stanofh 10a Hayward,Ca S.F. bay area
6 years ago
Snails. Put more bait and eventually you will find one big dead brown snail.
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