Oh dear! This is really serious. Call your County Agent NOW! 6-700 seedlings is nothing to joke with. My dad was a county agent in Arizona and problems like yours is what they get paid for. You might take a few of the infected seedlings to your local nursery also. Get it under control before the others are attacked and GOOD LUCK!! >I woke up today to some sort of odd disease attacking my pepper plants. > >I'm growing around six or seven hundred seedlings. About 1/4 of them >are under attack from some kind of stem disease. http://home.earthlink.net/~socalsuz/ ("`-'-/").___..--''"`-._ Suz, `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) aka (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' the katj _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-'