Wilting Pepper Plant Leaves - Fix Drooping Pepper Leaves - Pepper Geek 

This was very helpful, it was 102° where I live and the leaves themselves looked very healthy, but they were still wilting. Good to know they’re just transpiring.

Your information on plant health, concerns and remedies is outstanding. It has probably saved a couple of my seedlings. Thank you guys!

I thought cannabis plants were high maintenance until I started growing peppers. Oh boy

It's a good thing I like peppers so much, because they're definitely the pickiest plants I grow and always seem to need the most babying ;)

Really helpful tips. Never expected a tropical plant to overheat in Norway, but some shade in the afternoon and they're doing much better!

Thanks for your videos, they're very informative about topics that don't have lots of informations.

Thank you for your videos, l am retired and living in Thailand (very hot) I have started to grow chillies as we eat a lot here and also as a past time hobby, the weather is around mid 30s most days with high humidity, needles to say these are very good growing conditions year round. Your videos have helped me with identifying a few plant issues......cheers

I just started about 2 months ago,this is exactly what happened to my plant so I placed it back to the shade,so far I only lost 2 flowers but Its ok..rookie in training lol

I live in central North Carolina and our summers are HOT. I remember my reaper plant was terribly wilted last August and I freaked out. Posted a photo of it on r/hotpeppers and everyone was like "it's fine. I basically water torture my plants every year". Gave it some water when the sun set and it looked perfect again.

A few years ago I was having problems with wilting and I discovered that the problem was the black pots were getting too hot in the sun. I shaded the pots and solved the problem. The smaller the pot, the bigger the problem.

*We are growing Serranos...love my new plant,growing in Los Angeles, California...108° today,and Serann started wilting,we brought her inside😊new subbie here too!* 🌶 🌶 🌶 🌶 🌶 🌶

Great video, the only thing I would have added that causes common wilt is when a pepper plant has just been repotted and is a little stressed out.

Nice time lapses! Thanks for the info.

I use shade cloth to protect the plants in temps over 100. Works good.

I have never grown peppers in pots until this year. My situation maybe compounded by having moved from zone 4 to 9. Jalapenos are fine. The chilies drop in full sun. I stuck them under the Gum tree. They are doing magnificent now. BTW, did you know pepper leaves, at least these two varieties are edible? I prepare them with the same recipes for Perilla leaves, Korean recipes that is, being that I have been cooking Korean for more than 30 years now.

Great information as always! I just moved my plants outdoors this past weekend and they are welding, every single one of them about 30. After hearing your information I knew it wasn't the water because I thoroughly watered them after potting them. The next day I saw the soil was still moist yet they were still wilting. So I'm leaning towards the sun shock you talked about. Glad it's nothing to life threatening. Thank you again for your videos and all your expertise.

My madame jeanette comes back to life in a few minutes after a bit of water, it's impressive! It does not like a lot of sunlight. I'm currently doing a treatment for fungus in the soil, using a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water and I thought my pepper plant would suffer from it but it's blooming super fast.

Very cool man. Thank you. valuable info for a first-timer like myself.

Forgot about over watering I was giving some of my peppers a little to much love and had to stop watering 3 of my peppers for a couple days and they perked back up

Did I just see a bonsai pepper plant. 🔥

Greetings from Ukraine. Thanks for your hard work.

Thank you for the tip you gave about picking the first lot of flowers off pepper plants. Mine reflowered and all are setting fruit

Very helpful! Thank you for taking the time to produce this.

My plants have been wilting in direct sunlight. They’re completely hardened. In 2 gallon tubs each, watered regularly and are all over a foot tall. The leaves become soggy in sun, and in the shade the point upwards and sometimes actually flip over. I’ve been having to keep them in the shade and massage the limbs to get them to turn over and flatten out

G'day pepper geek. Thanks for another great video!

Mississippi and it has been a rather wet year (even for here) - I think I have bacterial wilt. Pulling the plant this morning. Thanks!!

Your videos are truly amazing. i would really appreciate a video explaining the distance the pepper seedlings need to be from the light source while growing indoors in relation to the light wattage. I have a 40 watt led and i try to figure out how far it needs to be from my plants. I only saw this topic was discussed online in wattages that are higher(ranging from 100 to 500+ watt).

am experimenting with shade cloth this year after experiencing sun scald last year.good info

I have a Mad Hatter pepper plant and no matter what I do, the leaves are always wilted. I've tried changing soils, fertilizing, moving out of the afternoon sun, watering, and probably more. The plant is growing nicely though

This has been very helpful. Thank you.

Great video, really helpful

How about overwatering... I didn't have a hole in the bottom of the container... now it's wilted. I put a hole in the bottom and raised it from the ground. we are getting so much rain.

Love your guys' content, just sent a coffee your way!

How often should you hit your gal peppers with Bloom boosters

Awesome, I would love to see a video on how to use liquid fertiliser. I’m in the process of fertilising my seedlings and I’m not so sure what I’m doing 😂

Thank you this was so helpful.

perfect timing, I've been giving my 2 plants identical care and one is drooping unbelievably. But its soil is pretty saturated

Awesome videos, keep up the good work!

And I love the content thank you I will be supporting the channel

I made a bucket of water and weeds/leaves for fertilizer (swamp water) and watered my plants with that a few times. Quite a few started wilting and more clean water did not help. Some are brown and dead, now. I don't know if it was the "fertilizer" water, but this never happened to me before in four or five years of gardening. And it is the first year I made swamp water.

First time I plant a pepper plant and your content is great! I have a question: it is going to rain for about 5 days. Should I get my plants back inside or leave them outside? Keep up the good Work!

Leaves droop daily here in FL and then perk up at night. I think it's the plants way of protecting itself from too much transpiration.

I just started hardening off my peppers. I left my house for work and an unexpected thunderstorm brushed by my area. The rain damaged one of my plants and cause it to flatten down to the soil. I brought it back inside and it perked back up to an upright position, however the leaves are still droopy and I had to remove two of the leaves because they were halfway broken from the stem. Should I be concerned for the plant? It is still reacting to my indoor light setup, however the leaves are concerning me. There is no discoloration of the leaves nor any noticeable infestation. Sorry for the long comment but would love some advice. First time pepper grower and I took on the load of 24 at once 😅. Subscribed! 👍🏻

Many Thanks to both of you, your videos and info is direct to the point. - In the past also I saw this when the drain holes of a pot were closed and the plant was stressed to over flooded water problem. - to late. Question: Where it is possible to get pepper geek t-shirts?... this can be another way to support you :) Greetings from the far Galilee in Israel.

Quite informative, thanks

My big Bertha bell pepper plant leaves are drooping and at this point the plant had more then 27 peppers setting at the same time. It is my hunch the plant did not have enough water and fertilizer for feeding the plant. it had more then 8 hrs. of sun light with 100 plus temperatures. I gave it some water and a good water soluble feeding and pruned off all the peppers and moved the plant to a shaded area of the yard. will see what happens next.

Thanks for the advice

Very informative!

Thanks for best lesson stay blessed

In Central Florida I keep my in the shade under a metal roof and water every other day but wilt

I noticed my plants did a brief wilt after topping them. I can only assume due to the stress. They wilted about an hour after topping and came back in about another hour.

Mine were in the sun and drooped over, so I moved them back in after an hour. The leaves are nice and green and look healthy but haven't stood back up even after being inside for 24 hours. They just lay flat and even had one stem snap. I've feed them liquid fertilizer. What do I do?

I need your help. I’m in zone 9B. I have a pepper plant. It’s a sweet, yellow bell pepper. yesterday after a heavy rain, I noticed that one of my pepper plants was wilting. I chalked it up to the fact that it may have been overwatered. The next morning it was still wilted and now the pepper plant that is right next to it is starting to wilt. Also, there’s yellow markings on one of the leaves. please advise 🥹

Duude, This is straight up scary! I was just checking my plants and noticed a lot of them had dropped some leafs and didn’t look to good. First thought inmy mind was “ I need to RU-vid this and see what’s wrong” opening up the app, and bam, this video 2nd to the top in my feed. Is google reading minds? I didn’t even say it out loud... thanks for the video though :D

Great information, thanks!

Amazing video! Thank you

ok i posted on the other video before finding this one. I'm in a heat-wave area with temps over 100. One of my seedlings has true leaves out, but during the day, the leaves are bending down away from the sun. when the sun goes away, the leaves perk back up. I have this pepper under 40% shade cloth, but based on this video, i'm wondering if I should go with stronger shade cloth? I don't think the shade will help bring the temperature below 100 degrees (it's just really hot outside and will be most of the summer) and i worry about it not getting enough sunlight to grow.

I cut my jalepeno pepper plant all the way, down to no more than 6 in from soil. All the leaves, buds, etc. It wasn't just wilting for days on end, it was yellowing and shrinking back into soil, despite a take to aid growth and attachment to grow upwards and onwards. The plant directly behind it is green and doing not half bad. The base is cardboard, thin sheets, with potting soil and compost, leaving a thin, but CCESIBLE GROUND ROOT SYSTEM ADVENTURE. wE SHALL SEE. tHE TOMATOES DIRECTLY IN FRONT ARE LIKE GANGESTERS. Full monty growth. So big that I gotta string em up cali weave-style ever couple days, so...yeah, man!! rock on

I been having issues recently with leaves drooping. I'm in the SF Bay Area, CA. We just had a series of heatwaves here. I been watering them everyday due to the heatwave and they started producing a lot of peppers finally. Then one day, all of a sudden they started drooping. They are potted, so I put them in the shade to see if they recover and also watered them less because I was thinking I could have overwatered ( read about this somewhere else). Neither seems to be working. I'm thinking it could be a bacterial infection, I'll check. Also, maybe I need to put them in the shade for a week to see if they recover? None of the leaves are scolded. Please advise. Thanks

Love your content! So helpful! Do you have recommendations for raised beds? Specifically if only part of the bed is for peppers? I worry about the other things in the bed that don't need as much nitrogen as my peppers.

About a week too late for me with the video but still useful moving forward so thanks. I would like to add that for hydroponics lack of nutrients also contributes to the wilting. It essentially is the hydroponic version of not enough water in potted/soiled plants.

you forgot to mention overwatering. Usually the leaves will turn yellow and if the issue doesn't resolve itself the leaves are gonna start to drop

Im excited to know how you got these issues even you are doing all the remedies!!!...😅

Just putting it out here i let two plants grow in the same container and they developed more roots than I thought when I went to transplant one of them I had to break them apart one of them has never recovered after a month it’s just wilted the only plan in my yard

Hi i have a question I'm from the Philippines it's hot and suddenly my pepper plant wilting due to hot but i water my plant but when i put it some water on their leaves they don't get wilt

Thanks for doing this video, I through my made hatter pepper plants. Was dieing . The fruit is soft and not getting hard. So I cut off the fruit and flower. I'm not worried because I another mad hatter pepper plants.

Thank you..may I know what is the best medicine to avoid bacteria in a pepper plant?

Calvin, I need help!! "SOMETHING" during the night time has been EATING all the leaves from my pepper plants leaving ONLY a pitiful looking stem!! Between dusk to dawn in 12 hours!!! WHAT DEMON is capable of doing this and how do I prevent it from reoccurring to replacement seedlings??? Southern NJ here.

From watching your video cold water did cause because My central air is on in the house and the basement is really cold so the pipes are cold and for me turning that water on and just spraying cold water on the plants wilted the leaves a little bit

I have indoor grow for my peppers Temps at 75-80 & humidity 60-70 is my humidity to high? Growing verity of peppers for the first time. Thinking of using a dehumidifier but not sure if it's needed. (In S.Carolina)

It’s been 113 in the Ca foothills this week five or take. I have been taken them in lately.

great video

Thank u your info helps me alot

Thanks for the video. I recently got my first Capsicum pepper plant and the leave are extremely droopy. I watered it yesterday and they are still drooping badly and leaves are starting to fall off. I recently harvested two peppers from the plant around 3 days ago. Not sure what else to do???

Can you please help me… my leaves are getting semi yellowish and my plant is dropping fruit. It’s a habanero, I’ve tried everything but it’s still dropping fruit flowers and it’s leaves are dying. I think it’s over watered but I can’t figure out if anything else is wrong with it. (I live in Florida)

I've got a quick question, I have 2 plants growing next to each other (they both have only 2 set of leaves if that's important) some people have told me to separate them, but I don't wanna damage them as they're the only ones that I have. So can I leave them or will it kill them?

I have a few pepper plants I have started on heat pads under grow lights. All but one are just fine. I have one that all the leaves wilted and fell off!!! The stems seem ok. I didn’t know if it was stem rot, I did recently trans plant them and I don’t think I planted them too deep. Any ideas???

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Thank you so much for making these videos. I'm in a bit of a pickle. I started my pepper plants in February indoors with grow lights. I have taken them out and transplanted them in grow bags. Since then they had issues with aphids and they haven't grown very much for the last 3 months. Maybe an inch or 2 at best. I got the aphids off on time. Is the slow growing normal for Carolina and Ghost peppers? My tomatoes are 3x bigger and I started them at the same time. Any advice helps.

thank you 😍

The past two nights dipped down to 48 degrees... A handful of pepper plants are dropping leaves like crazy. Hopefully they'll recover but they look pretty bad.

Hi Pepper Geek. I started my peppers too early - they are budding and have some flowers. I just started hardening off. Should I remove the buds and flowers till they are planted. This is the first year I have started my own and have always removed the buds and flowers on pepper plants I bought until they were established

In my bell pepper plant, the leaves are curling inwards and drooping at the same time. For now, I transfer it to the shade but I don't see any change. Is my plant dying?

can it be overwatering?i watered 3 days ago soil is still tiny bit moist but i noticed a leaf fall off and the leaves feel wilty today it is a bit hotter today in california maybe that's why

So I've been growing under LED lights, full spectrum. My room is very humid and the plants dont use up water quick enough. I'm suspecting bacterial wilt. My jalapeno was looking great yesterday, its not too wet and the roots look good but its wilting pretty quickly. My soil is probably to blame, the manufacturer changed it up a bit this year.

Thank you ❤😊

wow time stamps with the causes would be awesome.

I have a question please? Can pepper's come back if affected by temperature drops into the 40's , mine are stunted but putting on blooms? My squash and cucumbers have very yellow leaves and aren't growing fast either, is there something I can do? The compost I use has been staying pretty moist due to rain, any advice is very much appreciated, thank you so much, and thank you for all the wonderful tips

Thank you

One of my peppers wilts terribly every day while in the full sun, in the afternoon when the sun moves and its finally shaded it always perks back up. My question is, why is it just this one plant and not all of the others? Most of my peppers are in the full sun for even longer then the one that wilts, but yet they dont wilt.

Do you guys make any vids on drying peppers and turning them into a powder! I just found you today so I figured I’d just ask 😂

I have 2 ghost pepper and 1 reaper plant. Both of my ghosts are drooping and producing very little fruit, but the reaper is alive and very healthy with 12 peppers already. Any reason why the ghost would be drooping compared to the reaper? Are the ghosts a little more temperamental? I make sure to water them equally and they are all in the same environment, the same type of pot, soil, everything. Thanks for the video it has me thinking I need to water more often

Is it less bad to over-water or under-water a young plant?

How much should I water my reaper plant. I just got it and it's been in the process of getting acclimated. Idk whether I'm watering too little or too much since I've noticed it start wilting. I was told to just water it until the water starts pouring from the holes on the ottom of the pot. Idk whether this is accurate or if I should water it a little longer or less.

My pepper plants wilted horribly after planting them. It hasnt been hot I was watering them i did put a couple of inches of cattle compost manure it dries out quickly. Idk is it possible that u can get too big of leaves at the time of planting and they got too much leaf areas too keep up with the root structure outside?

I have 3 bell pepper plants in my greenhouse planted in-ground on the west facing end that daily go through leaf wilt. The temperature in the greenhouse has been reaching up to 95F with the roof vents wide open, the door wide open and 2 fans running all of the time. I check the soil with both my finger and a moisture meter and it appears to be watered plenty but not wet. I water every 2 mornings when it is going to be a clear hot day and fertilize weekly but still get the leaf wilt by the mid afternoon each day. On cooler days there is no leaf wilt at all. I do have shade cloth covering the entire roof and 1 foot down on each side. It is a 14’9” long by 9’ wide by 10’ high aluminum with tempered glass greenhouse. Should I cover the south and west sides with shade cloth to give my tomatoes and peppers some relief from the heat? Or should I increase my watering and fertilization amounts? Also, all soil in the greenhouse was replaced with 18” deep of very rich soil before planting any transplants and the surface 1” is covered with mulch which is retaining the moisture in the soil. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. I love your RU-vid videos and have learned so much from them. Thanks.

I live In NW Illinios, I was about 2 weeks late in hardening my reapers for outside. They are growing great now and very full of leaves and now seeing some buds (many buds) on all seven of my plants. This is my first year growing them and not sure if they will product peppers in time before fall, cold weather hits. I'm growing in totes. I saw your video on pruning way back for the winter, but wondering if there is anything else I can do to get them growing faster. I did add some diluted Botanicare platonic care kind bloom about 2 weeks ago and wondering if this enough? thanks Brenda

My pepper Blossom is falling off what can i do about it

I'd really like to get into growing peppers, but I'm wondering if it's still possible to plant seeds in late may, or if I should wait until next year. I live in the Netherlands, our first frost date is around mid november and I'm planning to grow the peppers largely indoors in small numbers. What would you recommend?

My mammoth jalapeno and my spicey jane are just so bad off its been super hot and they just cant handle it. They dont even get a ton of sun but its been like 102