brown pepper spots - July 14th, 2005 at 07:21 AM
I am growing some bell pepper plants on containers (first try at container gardening), and have recently run into a few problems. For the first 2 months or so, they did amazing (even better than the ones in my regular garden back home). However, now that they are producing peppers, things have taken a turn for the worse. While the plants themselves still look fairly healthy, the peppers are getting brown spots on them. Although the 3 plants are different varieties, they are all showing the same symptoms. Because the spots seem to grow, I have been picking the peppers once the spots reach roughly the size of a penny. The rest of the pepper seems healthy and tasty (or at least as tasty as you would expect such a small pepper to be). Any idea"s what could be going on?
Thanks for the help!!!!
Here is a picture of the problem
and here is a link to a larger picture of the while container garden so you can get an idea for the size of the plants and pots. BTW, I used miracle grow potting soil and am afraid to fertilize such a small area of soil for fear of burning the roots.
http://www.geocities.com/stonedwaldo/fullshot.JPG
let me know if you need any more info
Thanks for the help!!!!
Here is a picture of the problem
and here is a link to a larger picture of the while container garden so you can get an idea for the size of the plants and pots. BTW, I used miracle grow potting soil and am afraid to fertilize such a small area of soil for fear of burning the roots.
http:/
let me know if you need any more info