Hello everyone. How's it going? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. We are going

deeper into the world of peppers and discussing some problems that you may run

into when you're growing them.

So we're going to start with some of the more common ones and then we'll go into some ones that

are a little more esoteric or uncommon so that hopefully you can solve your pepper problems when you're starting them out

What happens if the seedlings are cut off or bent over at the soil surface that's either a problem of a pest, most likely a cutworm, or it's a

damping off disease, which is a fungal disease. That means that something in that mix is not

sterile. So you're going to want to sterilize your seed starting mix

but if it's cutworms you can either hand-pick them or you can make sure that there's not a lot of debris

that they might want to hang out in around your seedlings. If you have leaves that are

curling downwards but they're still green, that is probably just a reaction to

it being a little bit too hot. If your leaves curl and then they become

deformed and discolored in some way, that is going to be a sign of a pest or disease issue.

For example, aphids can start causing that.

Black sooty mold can cause that.

And you do have to get a bit of a gardener's eye

to understand which of the problems is actually causing the same symptom, right?

Okay, what if your leaves wilt, turn yellow, and then turn brown? That could be a white fly problem. They can make short work of pepper

leaves like that and just sort of suck them dry. What if your leaves appear wilted and

scorched?

Well, that might be a leaf hopper issue.

So you can start to see how some of the same problems

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