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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
- Shishito Seedlings: Germination Heat, Light and Hardening Off
- Pruning Shishito Peppers: What to Cut, What to Leave and When
- Shishito Pepper Care: Water, Feed and Support Through a Long Season
- Shishito Pepper Growing Calendar: Sowing Through to the Last Pick
- Shishito Pepper Problems: Aphids, Flower Drop, Split Forks and Rot
- When to Pick Shishito Peppers and Why One in Ten Is Hot
Common problems
Start from what you can see on the plant.
Pests and diseases (4)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Bacterial Wilt
MajorDisease
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.
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.
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.
