Chilli Diseases

​​Powdery Mildew

Symptoms
  • Shedding of foliage
  • White powdery growth on lower side of leaves
  • Spray wettable sulphur @ 3 g/l or carbendazim @ 1 g/l three sprays at 15 days interval from the first appearance of symptoms
  • Spray Wettable sulphur 0.25% or Dinocap (Karathane) 0.05%

Fungicide

Dosage

Propiconazole 25% EC

200 ml/acre

carbendazim

1 g/lit

Chilli Diseases

​​​​Damping Off

Symptoms
  • Seedlings killed before emergence
  • Water soaking and shrivelling of stem
  • Factors favouring infection:Moist soils poordrainage 90-100% R.H soil temperature 20°C
  • Impact of disease symptoms shown at after sowing of seeds in seed beds
  • It will reduce the seed germination percentage
  • Its affects the young seedlings and their stems
  • Lodging of seedlings due to weaken stems
  • Disease affected seedling are seen light brownish colour
  • Diseases spread through seeds and soil
  • Treat the seeds with Trichoderma asperellum @ 4 g/kg or Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 10 g/kg of seeds 24 hours before sowing
  • Apply P. fluorescens to soil @ 2.5 kg/ha with 50 kg of FYM
  • Avoid stagnation of water
  • Drench with copper oxychloride at 2.5 g/l @ 4 l/sq.m
  • Soil drenching with Copper oxychloride 0.25%
  • Avoid shade places for nursery establishment
  • Use recommended seed rate
  • Avoid flooding type of irrigation and maintain optimum moisture level in nursery
  • Use Thiram or Capton @ 4g/ kg of seeds for seed rate

Fungicide

Dosage

 Drench with Copper Oxychloride 50% WP

2.5 g/lit or 4 lit/sq.m

Treat With Metalaxyl-M 31.8% ES

2 ml/kg of seeds 24 hours before sowing