Bulgarian pepper, or as it is called, is a sweet heat-loving plants.It comes from Africa and is accustomed to the sun, warm breeze and low humidity.Therefore, in our climatic conditions can manifest this or that disease, or various Bulgarian pepper pests.Today we tell about how disease is subject to the plant, which insects can cause damage to crops, how to prevent it.
Diseases sweet pepper
Like all cultivated plants, diseases pepper (photo attached) are divided into viral, bacterial and fungal.The most common in this plant family Solanaceae can detect signs of the following diseases:
- white rot at the top of the plant withers and the bottom of the stem rot;
- for botrytis fruit characteristic spots on a light-green and brown dots on them;
- base of the fruit, covered with brown spots - it is a disease of the Bulgarian pepper called brown rot;
- tobacco mosaic (leaves with light and dark green stripes);
- Fusarium wilt, in which wither yellowed leaves and shoots;
- blackleg - a disease typical of peppers grown in the greenhouse, manifested blackening the stem at the base, as a result of the plant dies;
- Fusarium - a disease in which the dropping of leaves;
- blight - Solid dark spots on the fruit, often at their ends;
- spotted wilt - leaves with purple tint and brown spots, fruit ringed rims from green to yellow;
- root rot - This disease can appear on seedlings and adult plants.
How to treat a disease of the Bulgarian pepper?
All these diseases are due to high humidity or because of improper care.Treated by drying the soil loosening and sprinkle wood ash.Recommend to remove the affected bushes and burn them in order to prevent infection of other plants.If the disease is only beginning to appear, then pepper sprayed with fungicides or means "fundazol."
Pests pepper
Most often this plant is attacked by insects following:
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Aphids, which appears on the leaves, and then extended to the entire plant.This insect drink all the juice, pepper and eventually dies.
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spider mite.It acts as well as aphids, but leaves a distinctive web.
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Naked slugs that damage fruit.As a result, they rot and become unusable.
to deal with all insects spend spraying plants means "Malathion" or "keltan."Terms
care
All diseases and pests of pepper in most cases are the result of errors in care.We need to know the following:
- watered peppers no more than twice a week with warm water;
- all summer fertilize up to five times mullein, bird droppings, urea or complex mineral fertilizers;
- pinch out the tops of the plants and remove unnecessary stepchildren;
- regular loosen the soil and hilling plants;
- remove weeds;
- before sowing seeds is recommended to disinfect the soil.
And, of course, under favorable weather conditions, when not too hot and not cold, no sickness Bulgarian pepper not ruin your crop.
