Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: Thephoenix572 on May 05, 2011, 20:57
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Hi
I am growing a chilli plant in a greenhouse it's been planted in the floor of the greenhouse and I've noticed the leaves are turning from green to pale green and slightly yellow. What could it ne and how can I correct the problem.
Many thanks it's my first year as a grower so any help is most welcome :blush:
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Can someone please help me
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Are they yellow between the veins?, this could be magnesium deficiency, spray with epsom salts in water as explained in this thread
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=76422.msg864592#msg864592
Other than that can you please tell us what you have added to your greenhouse soil ?
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I grow chilis but haven't encountered this problem, so I can't help from actual experience, but I found this page CLICK LINK (http://www.thechileman.org/guide_disease.php) which you could read and it might well give you some pointers.
I hope you manage to solve the problem and please keep us posted. :)
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Not yellow between the leaves just turning from green when planted to lighter green now towards a yellowy colour. In the greenhouse its potting compost in the soil
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Are the leaves starting to drop off as well? If so it could be overwatering? Chillis prefer dryish compost, let the compost almost dry out before watering.
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Mine are too. I definitely over watered for a while, I think it's still a bit cold at night for them too. I'm not too worried, they sulk for a bit and pull through i suspect.
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Mine now seem to be greening up again so pleased
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Mine now seem to be greening up again so pleased
So what did you do to solve the problem? :)
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Less watering and getting a bit warmer I think
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Its good to hear that they are improving. :)
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So much better now they have flowers on
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We have fruits forming on most of our plants now. :)
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Once the flowers have bloomed is that when the fruits appear
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Yes, that's right. :)
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i think they are pretty tough apart from the cold. I got a chilli with 5 fruits on it from homebase for 20p. The leaves had withered but the stem looked very green to me. took it home cut the fruit and all the dead stuff off, then repotted and fed. A week later new leaves are forming. Don't know if it will fruit again. Time will tell.
I did it as act of plant love and I got some nice chillies.
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i think they are pretty tough apart from the cold. I got a chilli with 5 fruits on it from homebase for 20p. The leaves had withered but the stem looked very green to me. took it home cut the fruit and all the dead stuff off, then repotted and fed. A week later new leaves are forming. Don't know if it will fruit again. Time will tell.
I did it as act of plant love and I got some nice chillies.
Nice! Our local garden centre was selling off chilli plants for 80p (so not quite such a bargain, half price all the same), but there seemed to be nothing wrong with them, and they all had 8-10 chillis on, and plenty more flowers, so bought a couple, and they're thriving.
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I worked out that grow bag soil in the pot is good for peppers and chillis and I believe that they both do not like their leaves getting wet so water from below the leaf line.
Chilli food (?) sold on the inter net keeps them flying in a straight line.
Have had no yellow leaves and plenty of flowers so far.
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Are you feeding them? If you're growing them in the soil, I use chicken pellets to keep them strong. In pots I use tomato fertilizer. I've found peppers do best in pots. I heard somewhere that they need to be hot and pot bound to make them really generate fruit. It seems to work for chillies and sweet peppers. I keep them in 12 inch pots in the sunniest part of the garden.