UK gardening - curling habanero chilli leaves

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curling habanero chilli leaves

rugbrat1970

2005-08-31, 11:21 am

I bought a habenero Chilli plant a couple of days ago from a garden
centre (in a pot). Almost straight away the topmost leaves started to
curl in on themselves. The leaves are not drooping, just curling in at
the top to about a third of the way down. The plant otherwise looks
healthy. There are lots of chillis at various stages of development.
The plant has stayed this way ever since.

I thought it might need watering but the soil was moist and more water
did not help. I put it in direct sunlight which did not help. I water
sparingly every day.

Does anyone think this is a problem and if so do you have a
suggestion?

Thanks.

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rugbrat1970

newsb

2005-08-31, 12:21 pm

In article <rugbrat1970.1umtjz@gardenbanter.co.uk>, rugbrat1970
<rugbrat1970.1umtjz@gardenbanter.co.uk> writes
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>I bought a habenero Chilli plant a couple of days ago from a garden
>centre (in a pot). Almost straight away the topmost leaves started to
>curl in on themselves.

I've grown quite a few peppers and chillis in the greenhouse this year.
At some stage, almost all of them seemed to get something like the above
to one extent or another. I think the causes were one of two
infestations:
first and the main cause, early in the season, was little green aphids -
removed by hand;
second, lots and lots of tiny little green caterpillars - making lots of
tiny holes, too - also removed/squished by hand. Checking every leaf on
a lot of chilli/pepper plants was not great fun, but things seem ok.

Some of the leaves seemed to stay pretty curled - and some after the
infestation seemed to come out curled. No seeming affect on
productivity though

If there's no sign of pest, my experience stops there, I'm afraid.

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