Delicious Bulgarian pepper: the disease of culture, and how to deal with them

Bulgarian pepper is a popular product andextremely sought after. It contains carotene, mineral salts, proteins, glucose, and many vitamins. Use vegetable for marinating, pickling, cooking salads and hot dishes. However, what is important to know for people who grow bell peppers? The diseases affecting him are varied, and it is worth figuring out how to prevent them and how to fight them. From this depend on the yield and quality of the product.

1. Blackleg. How does Bulgarian pepper suffer in this case?Diseases of seedlings are quite common, and this is one of them. As a result, the root neck softens considerably, darkens, and as a result a waist is formed. As a result, the plant fades and perishes. Often such a disease develops in greenhouses that are not ventilated. If infected seedlings are planted in the ground, they will quickly die. To combat such a disease, you need to deal with seed dressing, disinfect greenhouses, properly care for seedlings in them.
2. Alternaria. Hot weather can contribute to its development.with periodic rains. The disease usually affects tomatoes, but also pepper. As a result, the leaves of the lower and upper tiers are covered with dark brown rounded spots, then they gradually die off. Fruits suffer from black spots in places of cracking and near the stem. The same applies to the stems. The disease can affect seedlings and adult plants. To prevent this from happening, it is important to clearly adhere to the crop rotation, that is, to return the pepper to the previous place no earlier than in three years. During the growing season, plants must be treated with special chemicals.
3. Septoria. Affects in open and closed groundBulgarian pepper. The disease is often found in fairly humid areas. On the leaves appear dirty-white spots with a dark border. In case of severe damage, they cover the entire surface. The leaves turn yellow first and then dry out. Because of this disease, the yield is reduced by an average of 40 percent. It is necessary to fight it in the same way as with the previous, above described.
4. Fusarium wilt. It is most dangerous at the stage of formation of the fruit.In adult plants the leaves turn yellow and die, they quickly wither. In this case, the main source of infection is already “diseased” seeds, soil, and plant residues.

Bulgarian pepper: bacterial diseases

1. Black bacterial spotting. It affects the stalks, stalks, leaves, fruits.As a result, small watery spots appear on the plants. This is about the leaves. But on the stems spots are oblong and black. The source of the disease is plant residues in the soil (after harvesting) and infected seeds. But there are ways to deal with it. It is important to seed the seeds, discard the affected seedlings, disinfect the soil, and use chemical preparations for plant protection.
2. Lightning bacterial wilt. In this case, the normal color preservesBulgarian pepper. Such diseases are precisely why they are dangerous. The plant simply fades, and white slime leaks from the stalks. To prevent infection, it is necessary to observe crop rotation, and return solanaceous crops to previous places no earlier than 3 years.

Thus, it is not easy to grow Bulgarian pepper. Diseases should not be treated, but prevented.