droopy yellow sweet pepper leaves!

[tanyatom]

Hi there!
I have (what I've been told is) a sweet pepper plant climbing up a string on my living room window. It has quite a few small flowers on it and small buds. However, theres a few leaves at the bottom that have shrivelled and gone yellow. Is this from under/over watering and should I cut them off?

My tomatoes also seem to be suffering from some kind of disease
I'm not sure if it's blight, but looks like how i've heard it described. They started off going a bit yellow, then came the brown splotches... a few of the tomatoes have got light brown blotches too... not looking good.
I tried to trim off most of the effected bits, but more of the toms hav gone brown. Is there anything else I can do or are the beyond help?

Any advice appreciated!

Tanya

[Martina]

Hi there!
I have (what I've been told is) a sweet pepper plant climbing up a string on my living room window. It has quite a few small flowers on it and small buds. However, theres a few leaves at the bottom that have shrivelled and gone yellow. Is this from under/over watering and should I cut them off?

My tomatoes also seem to be suffering from some kind of disease
I'm not sure if it's blight, but looks like how i've heard it described. They started off going a bit yellow, then came the brown splotches... a few of the tomatoes have got light brown blotches too... not looking good.
I tried to trim off most of the effected bits, but more of the toms hav gone brown. Is there anything else I can do or are the beyond help?

Any advice appreciated!

Tanya

Hi Tanya,

I am new to growing veg. But I am growing red and green sweet peppers and I find the leaves drop from lack of water. So I basically have to water mine with quiet a bit of water on a daily basis--especially during the really hot days (as much as two litres for 2 plants). As for the tomatoes, I had my one and only tomato to ripen on the plant get a nasty brown spot on it and when I cut into it it was totally gone. I had another tomato starting to go red with a similar mark and I took it off the plant to let it ripen on a table in the sun. The mark has stayed the same size while the tomato has continued to ripen. This is an improvement, I think, as with the other tomato (left on the plant), its mark continued to grow as it ripened. I am hoping when I open up this second tomato that whatever it is, it will be confined to that one spot, leaving me with the rest to eat. So maybe take your tomatoes off the plant while the are green, but are starting to redden and let's see if that helps.

Good Luck ,
Martina

[Millymollymandy]

I haven't heard of climbing sweet peppers but the bottom leaves may just be going yellow because they are old, they'll drop off of their own accord eventually anyway but you could cut them off. If your plant is indoors I find this happens more with indoor plants - my basil often drops lower leaves which go pale in colour.

Re the toms, it sounds like blight and you could spray with Bordeaux Mix (see the current threads on blight at the moment - there's a number of them!). They might be a bit too far gone now though if your tomatoes have actually gone brown as well.

[Millymollymandy]

As for the tomatoes, I had my one and only tomato to ripen on the plant get a nasty brown spot on it and when I cut into it it was totally gone. I had another tomato starting to go red with a similar mark and I took it off the plant to let it ripen on a table in the sun. The mark has stayed the same size while the tomato has continued to ripen. This is an improvement, I think, as with the other tomato (left on the plant), its mark continued to grow as it ripened. I am hoping when I open up this second tomato that whatever it is, it will be confined to that one spot, leaving me with the rest to eat. So maybe take your tomatoes off the plant while the are green, but are starting to redden and let's see if that helps.

Good Luck ,
Martina

That sounds like blossom end rot (google a picture of it and see whether that's your problem). I had a few of mine affected by it, even though I water regularly. Mine are in pots so I suppose they do suffer from being not quite so constantly moist as those planted in the ground.