Epsom salt experiment on pepper plants.

Greg1959

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Pictured is a grocery tote full of dulcetta peppers (really good and sweet). I bought the grocery totes at auction and they are great for collecting produce.

Anyway, I get about 1 and 1/2 totes of peppers every two days.

These were the peppers with the Epsom Salt experiment.


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Habenero, Pablano and Cheyenne peppers are doing great too. The Big Bertha green bell were mostly flooded out but some are still producing.
 
rustyfarmall- No control group, even though I wanted one.

When I planted the transplants, I had a small window to get them in the ground. I've heard
nothing but praises about using epsom salt with peppers. I did not have time to plant control
group. I hope to have a control group next year.

As for now, I am really happy for this kind of production. You gotta admit, they look robust and
tasty.

HTH
 
I think I'll mix up some Epsom salt water a bit latter today and water a few of my pepper plants. I have them set up so I can do a control group and a experiment group and see how they do
 
old- I've read where you can spray the plant with dissolved epsom salt. I used the method of adding epsom salt to the root base at transplant time.

Looks like we've added another variable to the experiment.

This is gonna be fun!
 
The way I have my pepper planted this year I have 8 different area that have them and have cayenne, Habano, Jalapeno, sweet banana and sweet bell peppers. All of them are not doing well this year with all the rain and now it is getting hot and dry. Been having to water the garden lately but earlier this month had 6 inches of water in part of the garden
 
I took my metal watering can and mixed up 4 tablespoon or should I say close to that not exact to what ever it holds. Maybe 1.5-2gal of water and used that to water some 19 pepper plants. I did not water the others and there should be around the same number of those so will see. If I remember I'll try to do this once a week and see what happen. So if some one will remand me to water them next Wednesday that will help LOL
 
(quoted from post at 13:05:45 07/29/15) Anyone with experience using epson salts on tomatoes to reduce blight and end rot?

2 years ago we had a problem with blossom end rot on tomatos. Did some online research and learned about epsom salts. Seems that no one had any scientific proof to offer, but quite a few folks had tried it with good results. I had nothing to lose so I tried it. I can't say for sure that it was the epsom salts, but the rest of the tomatos ripened up just fine and we got a good crop.

So yes, if you have blossom end rot, epsom salts seems to cure it. If I remember right, the prescribed cure was something like 1 tablespoon of epsom salts dissolved thoroughly in 1 gallon of water, applied to the soil around the plant once per week for 4 weeks.
 
That might be the cure for my summer squash, seems to be doing just that, I've tossed a few out already. I've used epsom salts when planting, peppers, and egg plant, not sure if I noticed a difference, but its supposed to help flowering if say you have too much nitrogen and you have lots of growth, but no blossoms. Mineral in it maybe ? Hard to remember all of what the various plants need without a cheat sheet LOL!
 
I have used it before but not sure it helped or not. I have tried both putting some in the hole before I put the plant in and also tried watering with it mixed in
 
epsom salts would stop blossom end rot, its cased by lack of calcium. tomotoes do however like epsom salts. it has magnesium and sulphur in it. you can get calcium sprays from your nursery supply, but you need to apply before the rot sets in. once it starts, you cant stop it.
 
I bought a bag of Gypsum Calcium Sulfate, and spread lots of it around my tomato area. I did it twice. End of blossom end rot, end of splitting. I was reaelly impressed. I guess it adds the calcium just ifne. Does not change the pH either.
 

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