Tasty sweet pepper: diseases of culture, and how to fight them

Bulgarian pepper is a product of popular and highly sought-after.It contains carotene, mineral salts, proteins, glucose, a variety of vitamins.Use vegetable marinades, pickles, salads and hot dishes.However, it is important to know the people who grow peppers?Diseases affecting it are diverse and should figure out how to prevent them and how to deal with them.It affects productivity and quality of the product.

Bulgarian pepper: fungal disease

  1. Blackleg .As in this case suffers pepper?Seedling diseases are quite common, and this is one of them.Root collar as a result of significantly softened, darkens as a result of the constriction is formed.As a result - the plant withers and dies.Often this disease develops in greenhouses that are poorly ventilated.If the infected seedlings planted in the ground, it quickly perish.To combat this disease, it is necessary to engage in seed treatment, disinfect greenhouses, seedlings properly care for them.
  2. Alternaria .Contribute to its development can be hot weather with occasional rains.The disease usually affects tomatoes and peppers, too.The result leaves the lower and upper tiers covered with dark brown round spots, then they gradually die off.Fruits also suffer from black spots in places and cracks near the stem.The same applies to the stems.The disease can strike and seedlings, adult plants.To avoid this, it is important to strictly adhere to the rotation, that is, to return to the previous pepper place no earlier than three years.During the growing season the plants must be treated with special chemicals.
  3. Septoria Leaf Spot .Strikes in the open and closed ground pepper.The disease often occurs in a fairly moist areas.On leaves appear dirty-white spots with dark borders.In case of severe injury, they cover the entire surface.Leaves turn yellow at first, and then shrink.Because of this disease yield decreases on average by 40 percent.We need to deal with it in the same way as the previous one, as described above.
  4. Fusarium Wilt .The most dangerous it is at the stage of formation of the fruit.In adult plants the leaves turn yellow and die, they quickly fade.The main source of infection in this case - is "sick" seeds, soil, plant residues.

Bulgarian pepper: bacterial disease

  1. Black Bacterial Spot .It affects the petioles, stems, leaves, fruits.As a result, plants having small aqueous spots.It is speaking of the leaves.But on the stems elongate and black spots.The source of the disease - plant residues in the soil (after harvest) and infected seeds.But there are ways to combat it.Important etched seeds cull diseased seedlings, decontaminate the soil used for crop protection chemicals.
  2. Lightning fast bacterial wilt .In this case, normal color retains pepper.Diseases such is therefore dangerous.The plant is just wither and from the stems at the incision follows the white goo.To prevent infection, it is necessary to comply with crop rotation, and return to the previous culture Solanaceae place no earlier than 3 years.

thus difficult to grow peppers.His illness need not be treated and prevented.