Down Goes Arledge...

Bad news on the pepper growing front. Lost my second favorite plant, the Arledge Heirloom. On Thursday, July 6th, the plants leaves started drooping really badly. It was acting like it needed water. But all the other plants, including the one in the pot it shares(Jaloro) looked good. So I hit it with some water...as the sun went down, the majority of plant perked up. Just one little stem stayed droopy. But the next day it looked even worse then the day before. I took a closer look and discovered some sort of white moldy stuff at the base of the plant. So I gave it a good dose of straight seaweed fertilizer. Guess I discovered it too late...by Sunday it's leaves were completely limp/dead. So I cut all the peppers off, and yanked the plant. I had high hopes for this plant. It made a lot of nice looking peppers, that had good heat.




The white moldy stuff.

Another learning experience for The Newb - even the best looking plants can keel over at anytime. I'm sure there is something I could have done(or not have done), before this plant got so bad off. So I'll need to do a little research on the ol' internet...