date:Sep 13, 2018
iron and manganese. Then they appear on the fruits, which stay small and deformed with brown-red stripes on top of the plant. Eventually it turned out to be CMV and we can't do anything about it.
All types of pepper were infected. From blocky to kapia types. Pepper varieties are resistant to many viruses, but CMV is not one of them.
Aphids are spreading the virus
Many growers in the region work in low tunnels and the virus seems to spread via aphids. The hydroponic growers planted earlier an