Been hardening by off for about a week in the shade, but I didn’t realize the sun shifted and my plant got about an hour of direct sun…
Been hardening by off for about a week in the shade, but I didn’t realize the sun shifted and my plant got about an hour of direct sun…
byu/Treebarkmoss inHotPeppers
by Treebarkmoss
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Do you happen to live on mustafar?
Hardening off for a week, and 1 “hour” of sun did this?
Toasty
That plant doesn’t look sunburned, it looks dehydrated. My peppers drink quite a bit of water, and they consume even more when they’re outside.
Crunching up the leaves you may as well throw the towel in on that one. Rip
I never harden mine just toss em in the dirt they are fine. It looks like you put yours in the microwave, it looks like peppers found in Hiroshima, what’d you do?
One hour of sun will not do this to a pepper even if you stick it outside at noon. My thinking is that its really underwatered and a little sun was the final straw. The soil looks bone dry and in a cloth planter that dries out quicker than pots.
“The sun shifted?”
Bro, the sun has been rising in the east and setting in the west since the beginning of time
This is a troll post.
None of this is true.
Literally cooked
Damn bro, you probably could have watered that and brought it back had you not raw dogged those leaves like that. The couple hours of sun on a “hardened” plant would not do this, it was a little dry when you put it out this morning, 1000%. I know because it’s happened to me. Soak it in water, and then soak again and 75% of the time it’ll come back.
Is the name of the variety by any chance “snowflake”?
After final frost, I put close to 14 buckets of peppers (all 5 gal) into my yard in full sunlight cause they weren’t getting enough light in the house. I figured they would die inside, let’s try them outside. They all survived. None had dried up like yours. Leaves got burnt and discolored. I left them til new leaves grew and picked off the old ones. Some are now flowering. Your case looks like you didn’t water it enough or stuck it into the dehydrator.
Update- I figured it out. On my back portch that was cooking in the sun at 85 degrees, I had my plant, not on the carpet or table like the rest of my peppers. The floor heats up so much it burns your feet, because it has metal in it. The sun heated up the surface and it dried out the grow bag I had already not watered quite enough in the span of a few hours. That’s why the shade was ok but the sun dried it out in that short amount of time. The plant was still sun sensitive after 4 or 5 days in the shade as well
Girl…. you know that wasnt no hr…
Yeah sunlight isnt going kill it lol
I left my plants outside for 3 yesterday by accident and they got a few sun spots. This is dehydrated.
Has it ever been watered?
Interesting fact. We are hardening off the plant from UV. This is difficult in our controlled conditions, especially with modern LED lightning. Windows do a pretty good job of blocking UV
No amount of heat/ LEDlight can prepare our plants for the harsh reality of UV exposure.
So.
1: a week in the shade would have bathed your plants in that UV.
2. If your plants were adequately maintained they would have probably thrived under a sudden burst of light after living in “the shade”
I’m gonna bet your soil was dry for some time.
I didn’t have time to properly harden off a couple plants before I went out of town last weekend and came home to a few badly sunburned leaves, but even those fully cooked leaves weren’t crispy. Either something else was severely wrong with your plant or you forgot to water it for a while. This definitely isn’t sun damage this is full on desiccation.
I now have some trees in pots providing them with dappled sun and those burnt to hell leaves have perked back up like nothing happened.
crunshing up the leaves is probably a good way to try to safe the plant….
Thats not the problem. You did something wrong, dont blame the sun buddy.
Edit: its not your growlight or the sun’s fault trust me. You fcked up something.
Dig up the roots or cut into the stem if it’s a goner and see if an insect got to it