Year-Round IPM Program Pages
This year-round IPM program covers the major pests of peppers in California.
About Seedlings or early vegetative growth
- 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?
Irrigate based on crop evapotranspiration (ET) to maximize water use efficiency and reduce the risk of soilborne diseases such as root and crown rot and damping-off diseases.
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
- Green peach aphid
- Flea beetles
- Leafminers
- Omnivorous leafroller
- Pepper weevil
- Seedcorn maggot (direct-seeded)
- Thrips
- Tomato fruitworm
- Tomato (potato) psyllid
- Twospotted spider mite
- Wireworms
- Whiteflies
- 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
- White mold
Abiotic
- Wind injury (especially in Southern valley)
- Cultivate close to the seedline to remove weeds and aerate soil.
- Cultivate furrow bottoms of mulched fields.
- Hand weed approximately 30 days following planting or transplanting.
Consider applying fertilizer as a sidedress or by drip injection, based on crop needs.