Some of my peppers look great, while others are shriveled. Is it too much water or light? Or disease? I'm at a loss so any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
by _n0thanx_
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ManyAcanthaceae1929
I got a similar issue from too much water after transplanting. Your pictures look exactly like my plant did.
A couple sets of leaves dropped, but after letting it dry out a bit it has started sprouting over double the leaves it had before.
I suggest letting it dry out while roots absorb the excess water and keeping a fan on it periodically to help with transpiration.
ThatPeak3884
How big are the pots?
speppers69
This misshapen leaves is from inconsistent watering. Either over or under-watering.
This could tie into your theory of overwatering. Overwatering won’t actually affect the amount of calcium in the soil, but it will affect the plants ability to take it up by damaging or suffocating roots.
It will present in new growth first via crinckled and twisted looking leaving, burned looking tips, etc.
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I got a similar issue from too much water after transplanting. Your pictures look exactly like my plant did.
A couple sets of leaves dropped, but after letting it dry out a bit it has started sprouting over double the leaves it had before.
I suggest letting it dry out while roots absorb the excess water and keeping a fan on it periodically to help with transpiration.
How big are the pots?
This misshapen leaves is from inconsistent watering. Either over or under-watering.
I’ll attach a video for you.
https://youtu.be/oTRERQYtZBU?si=qGbJbl0dbLuk2lxM
https://preview.redd.it/4ng9xk9ifhmg1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8601bfa0bd9191ac6d292ea2b7a6140685a05adc
This could tie into your theory of overwatering. Overwatering won’t actually affect the amount of calcium in the soil, but it will affect the plants ability to take it up by damaging or suffocating roots.
It will present in new growth first via crinckled and twisted looking leaving, burned looking tips, etc.
I love this site as a [resource](https://www.yara.co.uk/crop-nutrition/sweet-pepper/nutrient-deficiencies-pepper/calcium-deficiency-pepper/) in case you want to save.