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Sun, Jul 22, 12 at 9:14
| I just returned from vacation to find my wax peppers in terrible shape. It looks like someone/something ate half of each pepper from my three plants. Or could this be caused by disease/fungus?
The damage happened in only 7 days - some of these days were very hot here in NJ. I have flamingo and cayenne peppers in close proximity with no signs of trouble. Can anyone suggest what caused this? I'd like to avoid the same problems/mistakes next year. Photo attached. Thank you. Bob
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| Something ate it. Nothing to do now except daily harvests if/when are ready. |
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| Did you look for worms inside the peppers? Corn ear worm or pepper hornworm. |
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| Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, most of the peppers were picked & tossed before I could study them, but I didn't see any worms around this plant or adjacent pepper plants. There's a sweet pepper (flamingo) next to the wax pepper and it has no signs of damage. |
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