I’m overwintering 2 pepper plants (1 ghost, 1 hab) in my garage, this is the ghost. I’m in Austin, and we’re just now getting a possible frost. I just brought them in on Monday. Pruned em back, washed, neemed, and repotted them in fresh soil. Just noticed last night, under the grow lights, that the woodiness of the branches looks like scale. Is this scale, or maybe it was? Or am I just tripping out? Trying to figure out if I should do another deep clean, just leave it, or if this is a lost cause to try to overwinter.
Also, don’t regard the oil/paint in the picture. I’ve moved them away from the plants.
by Sacred_Chow
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I too have a few plants overwintering that look very similar, and this is the second year overwintering, they look no worse than last year and all my other plants have not exhibited this so I believe It’s just bark growth.
Hopefully some others will chime In and either confirm or deny, I just wanted to say you are not along and mine have not gotten worse In a year so… for whats that’s worth.
Hard to be certain from the pic, but doesn’t look like scale at all – I’d assume it’s just how the bark is forming, don’t worry!
It do be like dat sometimes. Normal.
I think it’s “bark”
That’s a branch, my dude.
Looks normal to me, all my 2nd or 3rd year over wintered plants look like that, some of the newly overwintered plants are starting to look like that too
I cut a few huge branches from my plants and put them in water, just to see if they’d take, and they’re starting to grow roots out of those brown bumps.
It is completely normal on larger, thicker branches and stems.
It looks like that’s just how the bark is on this plant. Scale usually looks like little split peas stuck to the surface, sometimes with different shapes but usually domes. Usually you can tell the scale is a separate organism from the tree because they overlap each other a bit