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Poisoned Pepper Plants?
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Your guess is correct. It's herbicide damage. Likely either 2,4-D or Dicamba. These are common ingredients in lawn broadleaf weed control agents.
When applied when it is hot, they tend to volatize and drift. Very low levels will cause the damage you are seeing.
The most common culprit is the slower release granular formulations.
Thanks for the info!
My wife said she put slow release fertilizer in when we transplanted them into the garden. Could that have anything to do with it?
We don't use any kind of herbicides or pesticides anywhere on our property.
The only thing we added to the garden this year was mulch and the thought occurred to me that something was in it, but every single other plant seems to be fine. The tomatoes were a tad stressed early in the season, but we had 30+ degree Celsius weather incredibly early in the season for almost two weeks that seemed to stress them, but otherwise they've grown well since and are producing a ton of tomatoes.
Every other vegetable plant is doing well. Onions, rhubarb, corn, carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, and a couple others I can't remember. So that makes me think there's nothing in the mulch itself.
Now my parents got a bunch of their peppers from one of the same places I got a few of my peppers from and they have the same issue. Is it possible the soil the garden centre used when starting the seeds was contaminated?