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Capsicum annuum
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- Choosing Green Chili Pepper Varieties: Pick by Heat and by What You Will Make
- Planting Green Chili Peppers in Containers: 3-Gallon Pots, Shallow Planting, a Stake per Stem
- How to Prune and Train Green Chili Peppers: Keep More Branches for Green Picking, Two Stems in a 3-Gallon Pot
- Watering and Feeding Green Chili Peppers: The Opposite of Drying Peppers, Feed Every Two Weeks
- Harvesting Green Chili Peppers: Pick 3 to 4 Weeks After Flowering, Clear the Plant Before Frost, Overwinter in a Pot
- Green Chili Pepper Problems: Holes in Pods, Black Tips, and Curled Leaves
- Preserving Green Chili Peppers: Freezing, Soy Pickles, Koji Ferment, Yuzu Kosho and Chili Miso
- How Pepper and Chili Branches Multiply: Forking at Every Flower, the Three-Stem Frame, and What to Prune Shared with Peppers and Chilies
Common problems
Start from what you can see on the plant.
Pests and diseases (6)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Aphids
MajorPest
Small green or black insects cluster on shoot tips and leaf undersides, crinkling the leaves and stopping growth. The honeydew they excrete supports sooty mold that blackens the foliage.
Helicoverpa Bollworms
MajorPest
Round holes are bored into fruit and buds, the inside eaten out and packed with frass. Rot spreads from the entry hole, leading to fruit and bud drop.
Blossom End Rot
CommonDisorder
The blossom end of the fruit turns water-soaked, then dark brown, and sinks in. It is most common on fruit in the sizing stage, and secondary rot often follows.
Spider Mites
CommonPest
Fine white stippling spreads across the upper leaf surface, and the leaf eventually whitens and dies back. In heavy infestations fine webbing appears on leaf undersides and shoot tips.
Bacterial Wilt
OccasionalDisease
Leaves wilt while still green during the day and recover in the morning and evening; after a few days of this the plant dies. Cut the stem and stand it in water and a milky white bacterial ooze streams out in threads.
Mosaic Disease
OccasionalDisease
