What is happening to my Banana pepper plant?

10 years ago

The plant is a little over a month old. It was planted in a organic soil I mixed myself 2 months prior planting the banana pepper in it. The soil has worm castings, kelp meal, alfalfa meal, bone meal, azomite, neem cake and garden lime. The runoff pH is around 6.7 - 6.8. The plant is under a t5 lamp at the moment. Temperature range from 85 to 92 degrees during the day. Humidity ranges from 35 to 45.

This problem started about 2 weeks ago. I thought it might possibly be a micro nutrient deficiency, so I made a tea with pura vida grow(Nitrogen) and earth juice micro blast(micro nutrients). This was the only time it was fed. There is plenty of nutrients in the soil itself, so I'm thinking it's some sort of virus/infection?

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Comments (7)

Blazito
Original Author
10 years ago
Here are some more pictures

This post was edited by Blazito on Sat, Jul 13, 13 at 22:32
Blazito
Original Author
10 years ago
What is this? Something eating away?
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Blazito
Original Author
10 years ago
More leaf damage
PepperGuy222
10 years ago
I really don't think anything is wrong, maybe a little sunburn but that damage is VERY minimal, don't sweat it.
Blazito
Original Author
10 years ago
They are inside under a t5 lamp though. 3rd picture worries me most. Those spots look like a layer has been eaten away. I checked the leaves and underneath for bugs, but nothing to be found.
Armageddon
10 years ago
I agree with pepperguy the plant looks great .... would not worry to much even if you lost 2 leafs they will be replaced very fast ....if your real worried about it you could cut of just under the damaged area and the leaf will still live i have done this on many plants over the years . the other day i noticed 1 of my special guys leafs getting spots yellow spots had a feeling what was happening when i flipped it over there was a small family of aphids .... about 10 total .....the Key word ....WAS ...(smile) between all the rain and coming down deathly sick for 5 days the leaf was not worth saving so after squashing them i plucked what they was feasting on just in case there was any unhatched eggs .......so needless to say i gathered some ladybugs from 1 of my gardens just to be safe ....
sjetski
10 years ago
Looks like some sort of droplets didn't agree with those leaves. stronger fert droplets can do that too.

Agreed with everyone else, even the affected leaves still look healthy with no disease that i've ever seen.