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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Sweet Peppers Turning to Slime
  • Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:49:17 -0500

I think you're probably right Bob. There aren't any other problems with peppers that result in the same symptoms. It's classic for fruit that turn to mush on the plant. If you look carefully in the debris that's left, you'll often see the larvae and the frass it leaves behind. If it's european corn borer, the larvae will be about 3/4" - 1" long, creamy white and thin, with a brown head. Corn earworm larvae will be twice as large and may be brown, green or orange in color. They both prefer corn so you might want to plant corn as a trap crop nearby. But plant in several successions so that there are always fresh silks for the corn earworm. If you plant a dry variety of corn rather than sweet corn the damage usually isn't too bad and you can still harvest something from it.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html


Corn earworm and bores second favorite food after corn is peppers along with pepper maggots all are very common at this time of the year. They enter the fruit under the calix and into the seed cavity leaving a trail of decay that leads to bacterial soft rot... Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.


From: SHEILA PAYNE <srp75 AT msn.com>
Date: 2007/08/30 Thu AM 09:38:12 CDT
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] Sweet Peppers Turning to Slime

I'm in Colorado. I have some lovely pepper plants with lovely immature peppers on them. Two varieties-- red and orange bells. The peppers lower on the plant that are getting red and orange are a disgusting brownish, slimy mess. The stem is strong and still attached to the plant, so when I try to pull them off -- ugh, a handful of mush slides off the stem/seeds into my hand. No indication of disease on the plants or immature fruits.  Any ideas? Sheila

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