Pepper Top Rot

Briefly about pepper

Pepper is an annual herb from the nightshade family. When growing peppers in greenhouse conditions, you of course protect them from the environment, but you also expose them to diseases that are formed due to the special microclimate in the greenhouse. For example, such a disease as the top rot of pepper. She appears very unexpectedly and begins to amaze the culture. Spots appear on the fruit. He can get rid of it if the necessary measures are taken immediately.

How Pepper Top Rot manifests itself

On the casks of almost ripe peppers, small formations begin to appear, which are filled with liquid. Gradually, they begin to grow and acquire a dark brown color. Over the course of time, they only grow in size. Then dry rot appears, the areas with it are at first even, and then as if bent inward. Also, over time, the spots begin to wrinkle. In their size, they can reach several centimeters, or they can take half of the fruit. With such a disease, the fetus stops developing and just begins to ripen. It is very important to cure this disease, because it is a fungal pathogen. It is not recommended to eat such fruits, even after heat treatment, they can adversely affect the body.

What causes top rot of pepper

Its most important reason is the deficiency of potassium elements. This can happen due to improper care. It does not take much time to treat this disease. Often crops with greenhouse maintenance suffer from this disease, due to the fact that:
1) It is difficult to maintain the desired percentage of air humidity;
2) It is easy to overmoisten the soil;
3) Insufficient amount of fertilizers;
4) Overfeeding with fertilizers;
5) Lack of sunlight.

Consider the main factors due to which the disease may appear:
1) Lack of potassium substances. This can happen due to an overabundance of nitrogenous fertilizing, as well as if the irrigation regime is not correct;
2) Deficiency of phosphorus and manganese;
3) An excess of nitrogenous, potassium and magnesium elements. This may be due to non-compliance with the concentration of the feeding;
4) Too high air temperature and low percentage of humidity;
5) Change of arid conditions to waterlogging;
6) The soil is heavy or covered with an earthen crust;
7) Excessively salty, acidic, alkaline soil;
8) Damage to the root system.

How can you treat

The most important thing is to create the most suitable conditions for the active growth and development of peppers. Provide them with the right amount of micronutrients, macronutrients and nutrients. Pluck already infected peppers from the bush and destroy. They are still not good for food.

Fighting with drugs

The affected bushes need to be fed: in ten liters of water, you need to dilute two tablespoons of potassium carbonate and two tablespoons of calcium nitrate. For each bush, you need to allocate a glass of solution.

Foliar dressings will be as productive as those that are applied by the root method. This procedure should be used not only as a therapeutic, but also prophylactic. You need to start feeding from the moment of disembarkation, about once or twice every seven days. They need to be produced in the form of spraying, a solution of calcium chloride, or calcium nitrate, should be one percent.If the disease is already well established, then you need to turn to a chemical preparation with a high percentage of copper in the composition. For example, it could be:
1) Brdo liquid;
2) Copper oxychloride;
3) Hom;
4) Kuprozan.

There is also a highly effective agent called phytosporin, which is a multifunctional drug that is suitable for the treatment of all rot at any stage.

Pepper rot: folk remedies

These methods do not require large expenses and special skills.

Milk solution

One liter of milk should be poured into a bucket, the rest of the space should be filled with clean water at room temperature. About once every seven days, you need to spray crops. Usually two or three procedures are enough.

Chalk lime

Two tablespoons of crushed chalk should be diluted in one liter of water at room temperature. Then water the affected bush.

Top rot of pepper and prevention

In this case, everything is simple. It is necessary to properly maintain the culture, provide the necessary conditions and regulate them in time.

Rot Precautions

So that cultures are not affected by this disease, you need to adhere to some rules:
1) Maintain air circulation, as well as not let the humidity drop below sixty percent;
2) The temperature should not be above twenty-two degrees and below twenty;
3) Organize proper watering. The soil of the plant should not be dry and waterlogged. The ideal option would be: watering every seven days;
4) Loosening must be done very carefully, so as not to damage the root system of the plant;
5) There is a summer heat on the street, then watering should become more frequent and plentiful;
6) With a cold snap, reduce the abundance of watering;
7) Top dressing with the necessary microelements, macronutrients and nutrients. For example, before planting, you need to add crushed eggshells to the hole, as this is a good source of calcium;
8) Also as a preparation of the soil, it needs to be limed. Namely, add one tablespoon of chalk or one tablespoon of dolomite flour to one bucket of earth;
9) Mulch the beds to keep moisture in the soil longer;
10) Acquire proven planting material, and stratify the seeds before planting without fail.

Conclusion

There is no need to be afraid of the appearance of unfamiliar spots. You need to immediately start treating them and then you will save your harvest. The best option would be: timely preventive measures. You can also purchase varieties that are resistant to various diseases.