Wireworms killed my pepper plant?

[Lmbauer2017]

@YumYum So the sun goes lengthwise along the bed. This thing gets almost all of the HOT sun. The screen on the fence is for privacy as it’s just a wrought iron fence lol. Now the nutrition of the soil IS highly questionable… my cuc and cantaloupe leaves were doing something I’ve never seen before (I have a post about it somewhere), but this was so sudden so I’m not sure…


@Chuck Grubs… I have PLENTY of grubs all in soil behind my house. I’ve never seen them this raised bed, but many months ago I shoveled a few inches of soil from back there. I’ve been burying bokashi bucket loads in holes. Turns into beautiful compost soil mixtures, so I rolled the dice and threw a heap into this bed. I will dig up the plant and look for grubs. I’d bet my money on that being it.

EDIT: and I’m pretty sure the plant is well past the point of no return… but I won’t have time tonight to dig it up (wife’s bday ), so I’ll sneak out and dump the h2o2 mixture on it just for science.

 

[YumYum]

EDIT: and I’m pretty sure the plant is well past the point of no return… but I won’t have time tonight to dig it up (wife’s bday ), so I’ll sneak out and dump the h2o2 mixture on it just for science.

If you want to play around with it, I have another ideal but try the peroxide first and give it a few days then post a picture. That is what I do with my spare plants...play mad scientist.

 

[YumYum]

Any luck with the plant?

 

[A. Lyric]

Any luck with the plant?

So I'm reading the mystery in this thread, eager to get to the answer, the final verdict, the
response to suggested treatment, to see how it ends. It was like reading a good mystery and discovering someone ripped out the last chapter.

 

[drnkmunk]

Recently had the same thing happen to my potted pepper plant. I gave it a little tug and it came right up. I had an infestation of cutter bugs in there that had chewed up everything but a bit of the tap root.

 

[Lmbauer2017]

Wow I’m so sorry I didn’t update this! So unfortunately the plant didn’t make it. Life got in the way, and it died completely within a few days before I could do anything. I dug up the root ball a week later but didn’t see anything that stood out. So on that same note… this summer I had a magnificent cantaloupe plant that all the sudden got droopy yellowing leaves. Within a week the whole plant was dead. When I went to pull the stem out of the ground it just came up with hardly any roots attached. I’m not sure if it was rotted or something chewed through the roots quickly… but it is very suspicious that this happened to two pepper plants last year.

This year most of this bed is pepper plants, and they’re all doing fine! So I have no idea what’s going on