Please help! Pepper plants...so sad & yellow. Any suggestions?

boffer wrote:Welcome to the forum.  Pictures are helpful when trying to diagnose problems.

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Thank you boffer, for the instructions.  I will check it out and see if I can get this to work.  

sanderson wrote:Ninjakitty,  Welcome to the Forum from California!    Yes, please post photos.  This is my wild guess.  If you get a lot of rain and the Mel's Mix is soggy, they may be drowning.  The solution would be to provide a rain protection from the box.  Photos can help others help provide possible diagnoses.

NinjaKitty wrote:

sanderson wrote:Ninjakitty,  Welcome to the Forum from California!    Yes, please post photos.  This is my wild guess.  If you get a lot of rain and the Mel's Mix is soggy, they may be drowning.  The solution would be to provide a rain protection from the box.  Photos can help others help provide possible diagnoses.

Thank you, sanderson!  I'm really happy to have found this site and look forward to learning a lot and meeting people who understand my insanity, I mean love, for gardening.   


I have some cucumbers too that are a bit yellow in the same bed so that may help too.  They are in the upper right hand corner of the 1st pic of the entire SFG.


It does rain here almost every day in mid-summer.....

boffer wrote:Yolos, do your peppers slow down in the same heat that makes tomatoes slow down?

I'm just curious, as this year is the first that it's been hot enough, long enough, for me to see my tomato plants stagnate.  But my peppers don't seem to be slowing down at all.

yolos wrote:My peppers look like that also.  Last weekend I bought some Garden-Tone but I have not applied it yet.  If I remember correctly, it is organic and therefore may take some time to make a difference.  I also have some liquid Neptune which should be fairly fast acting so I will put some of that on as well as the Garden-Tone and some compost.  Maybe this is too much but what the heck.  The peppers are just sitting there and have stopped flowering and producing fruits.  I had planned to pull them this weekend but I think I will experiment with giving them a big dose of nutrients.

CapeCoddess wrote:

yolos wrote:My peppers look like that also.  Last weekend I bought some Garden-Tone but I have not applied it yet.  If I remember correctly, it is organic and therefore may take some time to make a difference.  I also have some liquid Neptune which should be fairly fast acting so I will put some of that on as well as the Garden-Tone and some compost.  Maybe this is too much but what the heck.  The peppers are just sitting there and have stopped flowering and producing fruits.  I had planned to pull them this weekend but I think I will experiment with giving them a big dose of nutrients.

yolos, I'm thinking about doing different things to different pepper plants and see which works best.  Plant A will get compost, plant B will get Neptune, plant C will get both, plant D may get some Espoma - jury's still out on that one - and plant E will get urine.  That's IF I can find 5 plants that look about the same.  There are 12 out there so it shouldn't be too hard.

So, I put the Garden-Tone down on a Sunday and by Wednesday I was starting to see a difference.  I ended up removing most of the yellowing leaves that were on their way out.  Now, they are recovering and reviving themselves with new leaves and they are green!  

camprn wrote:

NinjaKitty wrote:

sanderson wrote:Ninjakitty,  Welcome to the Forum from California!    Yes, please post photos.  This is my wild guess.  If you get a lot of rain and the Mel's Mix is soggy, they may be drowning.  The solution would be to provide a rain protection from the box.  Photos can help others help provide possible diagnoses.

Thank you, sanderson!  I'm really happy to have found this site and look forward to learning a lot and meeting people who understand my insanity, I mean love, for gardening.   


I have some cucumbers too that are a bit yellow in the same bed so that may help too.  They are in the upper right hand corner of the 1st pic of the entire SFG.


It does rain here almost every day in mid-summer.....

So to address the immediate troubles you need to free (fertilize) your plants in the garden. No sense in continuing to let the plants struggle.  Garden - tone is a very good all around product and I use it at times. Read and follow the label directions. You may also get desirable results if you top dress the garden bed with good quality compost. Peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants are very heavy feeders.