[CH] RE Black Pods and Ants
Byron (Byron.Bromley@Gsd-Co.Com)
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:25:23 -0400
The following is from Dr Paul Grun The Pepper expert at NCSU
> Dear Byron,
> It's not a big help to you, but they tell me the black seed
> phenomenon is "physiological" i.e. there's not a disease organism
involved,
> but something in the physiology of the growing pepper. In my strains I've
> seen it only in very small fruits. I've assumed the black seeds developed
> abnormally and since seed development was abnormal the fruit stopped
> growing and so was very small. It seems only to show up certain years or
at
> certain places and may have something to do with calcium metabolism. I've
> not run into the ant problem, so can't help there.
>Paul