How To Treat Pepper Leaf Curl Disease STEP BY STEP?

Curling Leaves of pepper Plants are One of The Most Common & Destructive Issues Of Peppers. So In This Post, We Will See What Causes The Pepper leaves To Curl & What Is The Step By Step Way To Cure Them, So Lets Know.

1-Nutrition Deficit….

First of all We Will see What Causes The Leaf Curl Problem, The first & Most Common Cause Of Pepper Plant Curling Leaves Is The Nutrients Deficiency. Specially Calcium Deficiency Causes The pepper Leaf Curl, Pepper Plant is a heavy feeder & Requires Alot of Nutrients To Grow, & If Its Not Getting Enough Nutrition.

The Curling Leaves Is the Plants Way of Saying Give Me More Nutrition. Mostly The Plant Slow Downs Its Growth In Such Condition. New Leaves Grow But Very Slowly. Its Immune System Also Weakens, Making It Suseptible to Many Other Fatal Diseases.

If You are Using a Fertilizer, May Be The fertilizer Does not have Calcium Element In it, or May Be The Soil Ph is Not Ideal. Its Either very Acidic Or Very Alkaline, In Both Conditions Plants Stops Absorbing The Soil Nutrients & Hence Nutrients Shortage Even When Nutrients are Available in The Soil.

So You can Check This By A ph Meter, Its Linked Here To Buy. For The Fertilizer, You Should Have a Balanced fertilizer For Your Pepper Plants. You can Use This Homemade Vegetable fertilizer, Its Most Ideal For Peppers. Detailed Guide On Making This fertilizer is added Here, Make It & Use It Every 2 Weeks At The Evening Time.

2-Moisture & Compaction?

Another Common Cause of Pepper leaf Curl Disease Is The Soil Compaction Or Poor Drainage. Pepper Plants are Sensitive To Soil mix, They want Their Mixture To Be perfect For Growing, Means It Should be Loose fertile & Well Draining.

In a Hard & Compact Kind Of Soil Media, The Roots Struggle To Grow, & This Hurdle Appear On The Plant Growth In The Form of Curling Leaves, The Plant Leaves Starts To Curl With Time, New Growth Happens Very Less. While Lowers Leaves May Stay Green & Healthy Looking.

If Your Soil Media Is Hard, Or Staying Wet All The Time, This is serious, You should Change It Otherwise The Plant Wont Grow no matter What You do. Soil is a Fundamental Part of Planting & Growing.

You can Make a good Potting Mix For Most Of Your Plants At Home For free, Detailed Guide On This Cheap Recipe is added Here. use Such a Mixture While Transplanting Your peppers, & For Existing Plants You can carefully Change The Soil.

3-Pest Infestation!….

Another Cause of Pepper Leaf Curl Disease is The Pest Infestation. It’s a Serious & fatal Issue, Unlike Other Causes, This Kind Of Leaf Curl Disease Spread from One Plant To Another. Pepper Plants Curls Their Leaves When Attacked By Pest.

Minor Attack Wont harm, But If The Pest mostly white Flies, & Leaf Miners carrying a Virus Inside Of Them, Then The Chances of Pepper Leaf Curl Virus attacking rises Alot. Means the Pest Can Tranfer The Virus In The Plant Body, In Minor Cases, Plant May Fight Off The Virus, But in Severe Pests Attack, The Whole Plant is Infected.

The New Growth Happens But All Curly & Abnormal Looking. All The leaves Of The Plant Starts Curling. Their is No Way To Cure The Virus, Only we Can Reduce The pest Attack & With This The Virus Will Fade & Plant Will Fight off The Virus On Its Own.

A Less Infected Plant Can Recover, But If The Viral Attack is Severe, There is no Way Plant Gonna Survive, Better To Dispose such a Plant As Soon As Possible, Otherwise It will infect The Other pepper Plants Too. For Reducing The Pest Attack, You can Use Neem Oil SPray every 2 Days, all Over The Plant, Do This at the evening Time. Guide On Neem Oil Making is added Here.

4-Seasonal Effect:

Another Cause of Curling pepper Leaves Is The Seasonal Change. When The Weather Changes, The Temp Around The Plant Sometimes Fluctuate Very Rapidly & This Thing Puts a Alot of Stress On The Plant. & Hence Plant Shows Some Curling Leaves.

This Seasonal Transition Should Be Slow, But We Cant Predict The Exact Weather. So We can Just Wait. as The Plant Adjust In The New Season, The New leaves Will Start Growing Normal. If Your Plant Is Placed In Full Sun In an Open Area, Better to Move It In a Bright SHade For some days. In Open Area, The Seasonal Intensity Is Much more Than A Shaded Area.

5-SomeKind of Shock…

Another Reason Of Pepper Plants Curled Leaves Is The Shock. This Shock Happens Several Times, Like When We Repot A Plant, Most Plants Turn Their Leaves Yellow & Drop Them, But pepper Plants Make Them Curl.

Its Because of The Repotting, Or Transplant, Nothing To Worry It Will Recover Within a Week, Just Dont Put It in a Sunny Area. When We Bring a Plant Home, Again Plant Faces a Shock Due To Change of Place, Again It Curls Its Leaves.

& This also Happens, such a Shock Weakens The Plant & it becomes More Suseptable To pests, Or Became Unable To Absorb Nutrients Effeciently Etc. So This Way They are Connected.

Steps To Treat Leaf Curl!

Now lets Me Tell You Some SImple Steps to Treat The leaf Curl problem Of Pepper Plants.

• First of all You have To Identify, Whats The Main Cause. It Could be Nutrients Shortage, Could Be Bad Soil, Could be pests Attack. Or Sometimes two Of These. But Whatever It Is, You Have To Make It Right. If You Cant Identify The Cause, reach out to me.
• Once You make The Main Cause Right, Now Move The Plant To a Semi Shaded Area, Where There is Not So Much of Sun. This Will Give sometime to the Plant to Recover Better.
• At Such Time, Pests Attack On Such Weak Plants, So Better To Use Neem Oil Spray once a week So The pests Wont Take Over.
• Make Sure The Infected Plant Is Separated From Other pepper Plants, Specaily in Case of Viral Leaf Curl. This will Prevent The spreading of The Diseases. If One Plant Is very much Infected There is No Point of treating it, Because Its not Gonna Make So Much Fruit in The Furture.
• Same Way If a Pepper Seedling is Infected, Its Not Gonna Produce Healthy Fruiting, So There is No Point of Keeping It. Pepper Plants are Mostly grown From Seeds, & Within 8-10 months, They Produce Fruit, Afterwards Farmers Dispose Them & Grow Again From Seeds. Its Because The New Young Plants Are More Immuned From Leaf Curl, While After 1 fruiting The Plant Becames Much More Suseptible To diseases, Thats Also Point you should Know.

So its all About Peppers Leaf Curl Problem, Here is a Detailed Guide On Calcium Uses for Plants, & Its Organic Sources. Calcium Is Very useful For peppers, So take a Look.