has anyone seen this on their peppers?

9 years ago

This is the second year with my raised bed. I had an extremely successful year with nursery and store bought pepper plants. This year I grew heirloom peppers that were tolerant to my climate. I still have some that are healthy in plastic cups so I know it wasn't the seeds or my grow room practices.

about 2 weeks ago I started noticing spots on my bell pepper leaves. I immediately began pulling the spotted leaves and throwing them into my fire pit and also avoided touching other plants. I also began using organocide at the onset of the issue.

Its only gotten worse and seems to affect the sweeter peppers more than the hotter ones.

The rest of my garden is doing very well. No signs of problems with my toms except two of my San marzanos went thru some leaf roll which I assumed was from the excessive rain we've had here in western pa.

Here are some pics.

I planted the last week of may.

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inoj
Original Author
9 years ago
My Bulgarian carrot peppers also have it.
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
9 years ago
this has been hanging out here w/o answer ....

there is a very active pepper forum ..

if i saw topical shiny black like that.. i would think honeydew.. and be looking at any plant above .. having aphids ...

if its interior to the leaf .. i dont know ...

ken
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DMForcier
9 years ago
He asked in the pepper forum first. We sent him here.

I've never seen anything like it, and apparently no one else has.

OP says that there has been much rain in his location. We recommended that he lose the mulch so long as it is wet, and to pull or isolate the afflicted plants.

Dennis
inoj
Original Author
9 years ago
I removed the straw. The rain has slowed down over the last few weeks. Hoping they recover. I've pulled all affected leaves and did one treatment with disease be gone as my organic spray was not working. I'm on 4 days post pulling the worst plants and spraying the ortho spray. It doesn't look any worse. My fingers are crossed!