Sweet pepper plant problems?

[david1234]

My pepper plants in the greenhouse are starting to grow fruits, but some of the stalks are turning black, shrivelling and falling off while the peppers are still tiny. Other fruits are fine and seem to be growing OK. Does anyone have any ideas as to what's wrong? Thanks

[Leonard50]

This could just be natural drop - fruits come from fertilsed flowers and if the fertilisation was incomplete in some way then the fruits won't form fully.
Another reason could simply be that the plants can't actually sustain that many fruits and it stops providing nourishment for some of them to enable it to fully support the rest (the most typical example of this is in apples - they drop excess, damaged & badly pollinated fruit in June - sort of natural selection)
I'd just cut the damaged parts out to ensure no infection can take hold & keep on watering & feeding the plants (onto the soil - not onto the leaves)

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

Moved this down to the Gardening General section of the site. ;)

[gagjababy]

blossom end rot on tomatoes is due to lack of calcium did you put dolomite lime in the soil? It should be added at 1 tablespoon per gallon of mix