Transplanted the guys above (Chocolate ghost and Carolina reaper) along with other pepper plants.
It has been three days. One of the pepper plants is just starting to loose color, the other showed signs right away and is quite unhealthy now.
They were quite happy healthy bushy peppers prior to transplanting with a few days of hardening off
What is this whiteish lead discolouration and can I do anything to help it?
by Careless_Finger_1033
3 Comments
I’m not an expert. But that white color looks like heat burn in my experience.
Do you happen to be in the northeast US? That’s where I am and after months of 50-70 degrees, we suddenly have 90 degree highs out of nowhere.
Looks like sun scald, did you harden off?
That would be some sun scald. I hardened off my brood of 100 for 3 weeks and have been in ground for 2 weeks, and still some of the delicate plants burned. They will recover just like mine did. Nothing compares to getting late August heat and full sun in mid-late may. Let it pull through and the bottom leaves will be shed while it grows upwards. The leaves are also in contact with the soil, so you can pull leaves that are 50% or more damaged. Let the plant redirect its energy the to top new leaves and growth upward away from the soil.