Pepper is a very popular culture among gardeners. This is primarily due to the fact that pepper is rich in vitamins and mineral s alts, not to mention excellent taste. For example, it contains more vitamin C than many other popular vegetable crops. Sweet pepper is used by housewives for cooking vegetable dishes, salads, pickling and s alting.
When growing pepper, it is important to take preventive measures to protect the crop from damage by diseases and pests: observe the rotation of vegetable crops, destroy post-harvest waste in a timely manner, disinfect greenhouses and greenhouses where pepper is grown, and treat planting seeds.
Pepper diseases are most pronounced at high soil and air humidity, so it is very important to create optimal conditions for plants and regularly loosen the soil. Also, damaged fruits and leaves should be removed in time to prevent the active spread of the disease.
Lythracnose is a disease of pepper that affects the roots and basesstems. It can appear at any stage of plant development. If the pepper is infected with litracnose, then its roots are usually covered with brown spots, and the plant itself is significantly stunted. On fruits affected by the disease, watery spots appear, which actively increase in size. If the pepper litracnose disease has just begun to develop, you can treat the plants with a 0.4% solution of copper oxychloride or Bordeaux mixture (it is better to use a 1% solution).
Blackleg is a pepper disease known to all gardeners. The stem of the plant in the root part usually darkens, then actively thins out and rots. Sick specimens should be removed, and then the soil should be treated with a solution of copper sulfate. The black leg can affect both seedlings and young peppers in the greenhouse, as well as adult plants in the beds.
With verticillium wilt, the lower leaves of the plant begin to dry gradually, and a change in the color of the vascular bundles can be seen in the lower part of the stems and on the roots. If this pepper disease has begun to progress, then the plant must be removed. Diseased specimens are also removed with fusarnos wilt (WILT), with such an ailment, the apical shoots of the plant wither and turn yellow.
This disease of pepper, like gray mold, usually appears on all parts of the plant. On dead leaves and stems, grayish spots appear, which then become dark gray in color and become covered with spores. This disease is most actively manifested in dense plantings, in greenhouses and greenhouses, as well as during storage.fruits.
Viral diseases of pepper are most activated when there is high humidity in the summer. Plants affected by viruses do not develop well, and the fruits of such plants are usually small, while the leaves may have an unnatural color. Preventive measures to prevent massive damage to pepper by a viral infection can be the rejection of planting material and protection against aphids, which are carriers of viral diseases.
