Delicious bell pepper: disease, culture, and how to deal with them

Pepper is a product of the popular and extremely in demand. It contains carotene, mineral salts, proteins, glucose, plenty of vitamins. Use for marinating vegetables, pickles, salads and hot dishes. However, what is important to know the people who grow bell pepper? The diseases afflicting him, the various, and you need to understand how to prevent them and how to deal with them. Depend on the yield and quality of the product.

Pepper: diseases of fungal

1. Blackleg. Suffering in this case, the Bulgarian pepper? Diseases of seedlings are quite common, and this is one of them. Root collar as a result, significantly softens, darkens, eventually hauling. As a consequence, the plant withers and dies. Often this disease develops in greenhouses, which are not ventilated. If infected seedlings planted in the ground, it will quickly die. To fight with this disease, need to have seed treatment, to disinfect greenhouses, to properly care for seedlings in them.
2. Alternaria. Contribute to the development of may the weather is hot with occasional rains. The disease usually affects tomatoes but the peppers too. The result leaves the bottom and top tiers are covered in dark-brown rounded spots, then they gradually die off. The fruits suffer from black spots in places and cracking near the stem. The same applies to the stems. The disease can affect seedlings and adult plants. To avoid this, it is important to adhere to the rotation, that is, return the peppers to the previous place not earlier than three years. During the growing season the plants must be treated with special chemicals.
3. Septoria. Strikes in open and closed ground pepper. The disease is often found in moist areas. The leaves appear dirty-white spots with dark borders. In the case of severe lesions they cover the entire surface. The leaves first turn yellow and then dry out. Due to this disease yield reduced by an average of 40 percent. Deal with it the same way as the previous one, described above.
4. Fusarium wilt. The most dangerous it is at the stage of fruit formation. Adult plants turn yellow and die leaves, they wilt quickly. The main source of infection in this case – it «sick» seeds, soil, plant residues.

Peppers: bacterial diseases

1. Black bacterial spot. It affects the stalks, stems, leaves, fruits. As a result, the plants there are small watery spots. This is speaking of the leaves. But on stems the spots are oblong and black. The source of the disease – plant residues in the soil (after harvesting), and infected seeds. But there are ways to combat it. It is important to treat the seeds, discard the affected seedlings to decontaminate the soil, used for plant protection chemicals.
2. Fulminant bacterial wilt. In this case, natural color keeps pepper. Diseases such therefore dangerous. The plant just wilts and the stems cut stems of white mucus. To prevent infection, you need to observe crop rotation, and return the Solanaceae culture on the previous place not earlier than 3 years.

Thus, it is not easy to grow bell pepper. His sickness should not be treated, and prevented.