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Thanks for the responses. I think I will use it for the leafminers on my citrus trees,. I will alternate with Neem oil application every 15 to 30 days or so. Hopefully it should keep them in check!
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I don't know where you are located, I'm in central Indiana and my Marconi peppers are real behind this year along with the rest of my peppers. Its been rather wet this season and cool. Peppers like it hot and dry. Memorial day weekend is when I put mine out at about 10 in. tall and no branches. They put on 3 blossoms each, developed 3 little peppers and just sat there staying the same size. Now just this last week they have grown to about 16 in. and branched. They also put on lots of blossoms. Could be the season starting. Nothing seems to be "normal" this year

should i cut off those peppers now and let the plant re focus on plant growth and sprouting more stems with flowers/peppers?
That is the standard and recommended practice for all transplants. Personally I recommend never even buying any transplants with fruit already on them as it is a sure sign of a stressed plant. Why start with one that is already stressed? But it you do the best odds for the plant is to remove any of those forced blooms and/or fruit.
Dave



You'll have to get a much closer photo of the bug itself to even begin to ID it. Could it be an SVB moth? Possibly. It could also be 150 other things. So rather than panic just look up a pic of the SVB and compare it.
Multiple pics - just C&P the URLS in the post double spaced one after another.
Dave

lots of reasons why raised beds?
saves doing any tilling or digging so saves teh back, alos depending on height saves bending our latest beds make gardening so much easier.
good for moisture control, no weeds, and these new ones up out of teh reach of any creature that digs,
len

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as new 'taters they will taste a treat steamed in their jackets, with ot without a dollop of butter.
if you want put them in the fridge and if they chit(bud) for next season plant them, planting size is no mater as spuds will grow fro peelings.
flowering has nothing to do with harvesting, that occurs when plants die off. we hardly see flowers, just 'taters.
len

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Maybe this will help. It, evidently, is not harmful to the plant at all. No fungicide is needed based on this article.
Here is a link that might be useful: MSU Newsletter on Slime Mold & Plants

You can cut the outer, larger leaves, and the inner ones will grow bigger and you'll have another harvest in under a week.
OR, if the plants are growing very close together, then cut some down to the base (but don't cut the base off -- this will regrow) and the ones that are left will have more room to grow, thus increasing your harvest as well.
Correct -- don't pull them up.
No dumb questions!
Elisa


When only one plant is affected like this, I suspect either physical injury to the roots by a tunneling critter or a virus. If you had herbicide drift it would not be just one plant. If you had a root disease you would see leaf discoloration. Viral infection is a possibility because the growth pattern has gone wonky. I have often seen viruses infect a few plants and leave others nearby unaffected. If it were mine I would compost it.

Thank you everyone. I did consider curly top as it does look consistent with the symptoms of such, I also considered that maybe this one got planted over a gopher tunnel, which I have many of, although no active gopher residing in them since early spring when I trapped the one I had. I think I will pull it. sniffles. ;)

Throughout tomato season I keep at least one broad bowl on the table for collecting ripening fruits. The little tomatoes I wash as soon as I bring in, so that if anyone wants to eat them, they are ready.
I dry the cherries and plums, so I often must save up for a few days to get a full deydrator batch. The important thing is to keep them at warm room temps and never chill them.




So, asparagus beetles only like the females? I didn't know that!
How do you tell the males from the females? Nancy
No they don't only like the females but it is the berries on the females that attract them to the patch and keep them there. The berries are what they feed on primarily.
All male plant beds have a much lower incidence of gus beetles.
Dave