Year-Round IPM Program Pages
This year-round IPM program covers the major pests of peppers in California.
About Bloom
- Special issues of concern related to environmental quality: runoff, drift.
- Mitigate pesticide effects on air and water quality.
What should you be doing during this time?
- Cultivate and hand weed to remove small weeds prior to layby.
- Apply layby herbicides before plants begin to fill in the bed.
- Hand weed approximately 30 days following planting or transplanting.
Consider applying fertilizer as a sidedress or by drip injection based on crop needs.
Check for pests or their damage. Refer to the Peppers Pest Management Guidelines for management options.
Arthropods
- Beet armyworm
- Broad mite (Imperial and Coachella valleys)
- Cutworms
- Flea beetles
- Green peach aphid
- Leafminers
- Omnivorous leafroller
- Pepper weevil
- Seedcorn maggot (damage rare at this stage)
- Thrips
- Tomato fruitworm
- Tomato (potato) psyllid
- Twospotted spider mite
- Whiteflies
- Wireworms (damage rare at this stage)
- Yellowstriped armyworm
Diseases
- Alfalfa Mosaic virus
- Bacterial spot
- Beet curly top
- Botrytis gray mold
- Cucumovirus mosaic diseases
- Impatiens necrotic spot
- Pepper potyvirus mosaic diseases
- Pepper tobamovirus diseases
- Powdery mildew
- Root and crown rot and damping-off diseases
- Root knot nematode
- White mold
- Verticillium wilt
Abiotic
- Wind injury (especially in Southern desert valleys)