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  • #1

    Chilli problem

    Hi all,

    My Numex "Big Jim" chillis have some unpleasant looking blotches on them:



    The dark patches aren't soft, and seem to be only skin deep. I can't see any evidence of insect damage.

    Any ideas what's causing this, and how I can stop it please?

    Cheers,
    MBE
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    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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    I've never had that on any of my chillies. I've just g@@gled and I think it may be thrips, the leaves usually become misshapen, twisted or puckered first. Has that happened? Get a magnifying glass out, you may have to attack with soapy water!

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    • #3
      I don't think it's that - there's no leaf damage at all. The marks on the fruit are unbroken, too.
      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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      • #4
        Have they been splashed at all when watering?

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        • #5
          My first thought was that, RL - or perhaps over watering/lack of drainage? Is the compost around the bottom of the pot really wet?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by rustylady View Post
            Have they been splashed at all when watering?
            No - they've always been watered from underneath.
            Last edited by mrbadexample; 10-06-2013, 08:19 AM.
            Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
            By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
            While better men than we go out and start their working lives
            At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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            • #7
              Originally posted by chris View Post
              My first thought was that, RL - or perhaps over watering/lack of drainage? Is the compost around the bottom of the pot really wet?
              That's a possibility. Normally I keep chillies pretty dry, but this one has had more than usual because it's in a tray in the greenhouse where I've watered other stuff and it's caught the excess.

              I've just checked, and yes, it is really wet. I've moved it and lifted it so it can drain.

              Let's hope that sorts it out. So far it's only two fruits that are affected.

              Cheers.
              Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
              By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
              While better men than we go out and start their working lives
              At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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              • #8
                Cool I had similar brown spots on a tomato with inadequate drainage - my compost at the bottom was like a swamp!

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                • #9
                  Spots or not, I'm having visions of chiles rellenos now. You are a cruel, cruel person.
                  March is the new winter.

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                  • #10
                    I had identical blotches on the fruit of a Sandia chilli plant last year, the only plant out of 20 odd to be affected in this way. On closer inspection I found a rogue slug under the pot rim, only a small one, but too much of a coincidence for it not to be responsible for the damage.

                    The only other cause I could fathom was the location of the plant. As a low, spreading variety it was under the canopy of a much bigger plant. Coupled with the gloomy summer, I wondered if maybe it wasn't getting enough light, and therefore it might not have been drying out as quickly as the other plants between waterings.

                    Excessive damp may have been a factor, but I'm sticking with my slug theory on this one.

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