Pepper
Pepper Materials from AVRDC.
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| Production | Pest management | Harvest and postharvest |
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Producing Pepper
- Grow Chili Pepper (285.8 KiB)
- How to Grow Peppers (illustrated, Solomon Islands) (397.9 KiB)
- Suggested Cultivation Practices for Sweet Pepper (229.2 KiB)
- Suggested Cultural Practices for Field Cultivation of Sweet Peppers (108.8 KiB)
- Suggested Cultural Practices for Chili Pepper (598.6 KiB)
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Grafting Pepper
Variety testing
- Procedures for Sweet Pepper Variety Field Trials (593.6 KiB)
Pest Management
- General symptoms: Sucking pests cause wilting, stunting, curling or distortion of new growth, spots or stippling of the leaf surface, or a sticky substance or black fungal growth on the upper leaf surface. Chewing pests cause holes in leaves, silvering of leaf tissue, complete removal of leaf tissues and burrowing in or around plant stems, branches or trunks.
Insects commonly affecting peppers (AVRDC)
- Broad Mite (71.0 KiB)
- Cotton Aphid (89.2 KiB)
- Root-Knot Nematodes (221.3 KiB)
- Thrips (62.6 KiB)
- Tomato Fruitworm (61.1 KiB)
Typical Symptoms
- Aphids
- Fruitworm
Common Diseases
Viruses
- General symptoms: Viruses often cause leaf distortion, stunting and linear color contrasts - e.g., green and yellow striping. Insects often spread the virus.
Virus diseases commonly affecting peppers (AVRDC)
- Alfalfa Mosaic Virus (186.6 KiB)
- Chilli Veinal Mottle Virus (135.1 KiB)
- Cucumber Mosaic Virus (190.3 KiB)
- Pepper Mild Mottle Virus (136.0 KiB)
- Pepper Mottle Virus (121.5 KiB)
- Pepper Veinal Mottle Virus (144.7 KiB)
- Potato Virus Y (155.0 KiB)
- Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (173.0 KiB)
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus -- Tomato Mosaic Virus (194.0 KiB)
- Tobacco Etch Virus (187.7 KiB)
Bacteria
- General symptoms: Bacteria often causes watersoaking, wilts leaf and fruit spotting and rotting.
Note: If you place a diseased sample in a glass of clear water, you can often see the bacterial "exudate" leaking from the plant)
Bacteria Diseases commonly affecting Peppers (AVRDC)
- Bacterial Wilt(188.5 KiB)
- Bacterial Spot (177.9 KiB)
- Bacterial Soft Rot (157.1 KiB)
- Choanephora Blight (205.1 KiB)
- Phytopthora Blight (195.3 KiB)
Fungus
- General symptoms: Fungi often cause molds, mildews, wilts and leaf spotting. With close observation you can actually see signs of fungal in lesions.
Fungus Diseases
- Anthracnose (195.3 KiB)
- Cercospora Leaf Spot (183.7 KiB)
- Damping Off (220.0 KiB)
- Grey Mold (166.4 KiB)
- Grey Leaf Spot (131.8 KiB)
- Powdery Mildew (141.3 KiB)
- Stem Rot (177.1 KiB)
- Verticillium Wilt (235.2 KiB)
Oomycete
- General symptoms: Oomycetes often cause rots, wilts and blights.
Oomycete Diseases
- Damping Off (135.8 KiB)
- Late Blight (230.6 KiB)
Other factors causing disease-like symptom
- General symptoms: Other factors can cause spots and rots on fruit (Sunscald and Blossom End Rot) and fruit deformities
Other Factors
- Blossom End Rot (160.0 KiB)
- Sunscald (147.1 KiB)
Harvest and Postharvest
- Pepper postharvest UC Postharvest
- How to Produce Safer Leafy Vegetables Inside Net Houses and Net Tunnels (442.6 KiB)