Pepper problem ( photo / image / picture from cccorlew's Garden ) I'm so new at this and very confused. My pepper plant has started to make peppers, but the largest two are going brown at the ends. I cut one off for the photo. This is not good, is it? Is there something I should do, or stop doing?
Wow. Thanks for the fast evaluation. It's been so hot and windy here I may well have dumped too much water on them. I think I was faked out by the leaves being all wavy. I guess that's the way they are supposed to be. Easy enough to cut back on the water and not let the rest go bad! Thanks again.
Looks like a case of "blossom end rot" that can be caused by two things: #1: watering procedures and/or weather conditions, and #2: poor calcium conversion/uptake from the soils peppers are in (an indication of this is yellowing of leaves). Tomatoes..also a member of the nightshade family..especially the plum varieties, are notorious for this in some locales, but side-dressing with epsom salts does seem to help, as does working a handful of those into soil at planting time. Don't despair: fruit can still be used, simply cut off the discolored, somewhat hard section and discard, use the rest at will. Blossom-end rot is NOT a disease or virus, is dictated by growing conditions that the gardener sometimes has NO control over, so please keep that in mind!
Yes, rot. Were they sitting on the ground at all? That could have done it. Or it may have been as you say, too much water dumped on it. Chop the brown bits off, you can still use the healthy part
