RE: [CH] rotten peppers

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> poblanos, anchos and other peppers rotting before
> they even ripen!?!? 

   Could be blossom end rot.  In peppers it often
occurs on the side, near the blossom end.  I have had
intermittent problems with it and have seen it half way
up the side of the fruit.  Does it look like the photos
in these links?

http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/a-231.html  (Fig. 2A)

http://www.uri.edu/ce/factsheets/sheets/blossendrot.html  

   Sometimes the pepper starts to ripen early, especially
around the rotten area.  I only see it in bigger fruits,
like the ones you mentioned.  Once it starts on a pepper
you're best off just throwing that fruit away.  If it
shows on one fruit on a plant, the others may be fine.
Byron helped me track this down a few years back when I
first saw it.

Scott... KCK

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