Peppers and Chilies Plant Wilting: Causes & How to Fix It

Check these first

• Does it recover in the morning and evening? If so, the roots are struggling to take up water.
• Is the soil bone dry, or has it stayed soggy for days?
• Check the base of the stem and the roots for galls, brown streaks, or a rotten smell.

Most likely causes

From the pests and diseases recorded for this plant, the ones whose symptoms match, most serious first. Symptoms alone rarely confirm a cause, so use the linked page to check the signs and treatment.

Other possible causes

• Verticillium Wilt — Only one side of the lower leaves yellows and wilts, and the symptom moves up the plant. S…
• Southern Blight — The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrou…
• Root Rot — Fine roots rot brown to blackish brown, growth stops and the lower leaves yellow. The plan…
• Root-knot Nematode — The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up a…

Other symptoms on this plant

What other growers did about it

A page like this one can tell you what peppers and chilies plant wilting is and what to try. What it cannot tell you is what actually happened to someone who had it on the same plant, at the same point in the season, and what they did next.

Gadenin is a free garden journal built around that. You photograph the plant, tag what you are seeing, and the entries line up by date for each plant you grow.

• Tag the problem and the app tells you how many other growers have logged the same thing on the same plant.
• Growers who make their records public can be followed, so you can read what they did and how it turned out.
• Next season your own entries come back at the same point in the year, so you check the plant before it starts.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.