Pepper disease - what you need to know gardeners

Pepper is a very popular culture for gardeners. This is primarily due to the fact that pepper is rich in vitamins and mineral salts, not to mention the excellent taste. For example, it contains more vitamin C than in many other popular vegetable crops. Sweet peppers are used by the hostesses for cooking vegetable dishes, salads, with marinating and pickling.

When growing peppers it is important to respectpreventive measures to protect the crop from damage caused by diseases and pests: follow the alternation of vegetable crops, promptly destroy post-harvest waste, disinfect in greenhouses and greenhouses where peppers are grown, and dress seeding seeds.

The most severe diseases of peppers are manifested whenhigh humidity of soil and air, so it is very important to create optimal conditions for plants and regularly loosen soil. Also, remove damaged fruits and leaves in time to prevent the spread of the disease.

Litrecnosis is a pepper disease that affects the roots andstem bases. It can occur at any stage of plant development. If the pepper is infected with lithocarnose, its roots are usually covered with brown spots, and the plant itself lags behind in growth. On the fruits affected by the disease, there are watery spots that actively increase in size. If the disease of pepper litracnosis only started to develop, you can treat plants with a 0.4% solution of copper chloride or Bordeaux fluid (it is better to use a 1% solution).

Black leg - known to all truck farmers diseasepepper. The stem of the plant in the root part usually darkens, then actively thins and rot. The diseased specimens should be removed and then the soil treated with a solution of copper sulfate. Black leg can affect both seedlings, and young pepper in the greenhouse, as well as adult plants in the beds.

With verticillium wilt, the lower leaves of the plant begin to dry gradually, and in the lower part of the stems and on the roots, a discoloration of the vascular bundles can be seen. If this pepper disease the plant must be removed. Also, sick specimens are also removed with fusarium wilt (WILT), with this ailment the apical shoots of the plant wilt and turn yellow.

A pepper disease like gray rot, usuallymanifested on all parts of the plant. On the dead leaves and stems there are spots of grayish color, which then acquire a dark gray color and become covered with spores. This disease is most active in thickened plantings, in greenhouses and greenhouses, and also in the process of storing fruits.

Viral diseases of pepper are the mostare activated when the humidity in the air is high in summer. The viruses infected by plants do not develop well, and the fruits in such plants are usually small, and the leaves can have unnatural coloring. Preventive measures to prevent massive pepper damage by a viral infection can be the rejection of planting material and protection against aphids, which is a carrier of viral diseases.