Pepper and Vine Seedling Issues: Soap, Nutrients, Hardening Off

Pepper and Vine Seedling Issues: Soap, Nutrients, Hardening Off

Saskatchewan gardener: watermelon/zucchini sprayed with dish soap (risky), peppers with yellow spots (possible virus or nutrient deficiency).

Corrections

• Use Safer's Insecticidal Soap, not dish soap (strips leaf wax, causes wilt).
• Feed seedlings Miracle-Gro with micronutrients (iron/manganese deficiency likely).
• Harden off and plant out ASAP weather permits.

Pepper Spots

• Yellow between veins = iron/manganese deficiency (high pH or overwater).
• Virus possible but less likely if new growth healthy.

Transplants recover fast in garden soil with sun and real nutrients.