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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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So basically, ive got a tomato plant that is completely dead. don't know y. it got its water and light and other things it needed. My chili plant is a "cayenne" from Italy if am correct. Ive got 2 problems with it. 1. It gives chili of 6cm instead of the 12 it was supposed to give. 2. It had lots of flowers but got only one chili!. My pepper plants seem to be in an awful state. As u can see, they lose all of their leaves and branches. They r at least 8mths old. All of em. Those that give flowers which in turn turns into pepper, the branches and leaves fall and even the fruit. dunnow what to do plz heeeeelp
Did you move any of these plants before photographing them? If you didn't, I'd say lack of ample sunshine is a big culprit. These plants need A LOT of full sun, at least six hours a day.
The tomato plant is completely dead, yes.
The containers are too small to support the large plants you're trying to grow, and that planting medium looks like native soil, and not very good soil. That's a gigantic factor.
What should you do? Pitch everything right now. Plants that are 8 months old and under that kind of stress will never amount to anything. And then next year:
Get much larger pots.
Use a container mix. If you want to add some compost to it, that's great. I'm doing that in my container veg this year and I am overrun with peppers and herbs.
Place the containers in FULL sun. Preferably morning until mid to late afternoon.
Water the containers at least once every other day. Check the moisture every day and water more as needed, especially when the weather is hot and dry. Mulching the containerized plants with straw will help retain more moisture.
Feed with a balanced water soluble fertilizer, like Miracle-Gro, once every ten days. Do not mix it too strong and do not over fertilize.
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thnx guys. But the plants do get sunlight from 5:30am to about 6pm since it is always on the balcony. As for the pots, I know they r small but its just that getting bigger ones would cost soo much. Moreover, I water them 6 days a week. I read somewhere that its gud to leave one day without watering coz I was hving problems with my tomatoes. they would get some black spots on the bottom and apparently, that was due to overwatering so I just water 6 days a week now. And what about the chili plant?
As you were told, the pots are too small. Those plants need more soil to grow properly. If buying bigger pots is to expensive, then give up trying to grow veggies in pots.
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