Chinense plant (I think habanero) lost most of its leaves over night. I have have 2 other plants of this variety that are fine and all have been treated with same conditions. Out of the 3 this actually looked the healthiest, not dry, yellow or crumpled leaves or distorted growth. Very bizarre. Anyone else experienced this?
by Illustrious_Bunch_62
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Do you have someone living with you who has plant knowledge? I do this purposely to let light to that lower growth.
Could perhaps be stress due to dryness. The soil looks advanced dry based on color and separation from edges of container.
My 3′ tall reaper did this out of nowhere. No idea why. Still looks good on all the top foliage. Other peppers in the same box look fantastic too. No idea
Stem looking THICC tho.
Soil seems like it’s crusted over due to dryness from this picture. When this happens to me. I agitate the soil starting around the edges and mix a little blood meal (or whatever fertilizer you like to use at this stage) in to the soil and water thoroughly. Usually never an issue beyond losing a few leaves.
I have had this happen when i over fertilize
Did you recently move it into another pot? I’m guessing it’s stressed, mine did the same. [Here’s pics of my ghost pepper that did the same thing.](https://imgur.com/a/ghost-pepper-birds-eye-pepper-carolina-reaper-featuring-pup-KWIZoiV)
That is really odd growth for a Habanero. Did you top it? By this point they are usually wider than they are tall.
So my healthiest ghost pepper did this but I have a good reason to why it did. I used organocide to try and help a bug problem, which I’ve used before on other plants and have experienced a little bit of leaf burn. That plant lost all but one leaf looked even way worse than what you’ve got going on there.
At that point I kind of wrote it off but I also kept it to see what it would do, and it has completely bounced back now. After about a week and a half it started growing more leaves, and now something like a month later it’s doing great.