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Is this sunburn, aphids, or something else?

10 years ago

Hello!


I went to a local garden center and found a beautiful variegated violet--when I inspected it there I assumed its appearance to be healthy except for some mechanical damage.
When I got home, I did the usual routine--kept it separate from other plants and sprayed it with 50% weakened insecticidal soap. The next day I saw a tiny green bug crawling on a leaf--one the size of a spider mite. I sprayed it again, put it into a ziploc, and then went ahead with restarting the root ball and removing/planting suckers the next morning. Now it and the suckers are in ziplocs doing just fine.

Only thing is: Weird spots were on a few leaves--I'd say about three of them. It came home with the spots that I assumed were sunburn at first.



The spots start out a brownish color, die in the center, and then it becomes a hole--same underneath, but the underneath becomes surrounded by a shiny tan color. The spots aren't squishy or oozy.

I've looked the plant up and down. Its stems aren't swollen, squishy, or necrotic anywhere, the new/spent blooms that I snipped off were both pretty and normal, there was no loose pollen on the leaves, its growth is symmetrical and healthy beyond the suckers, and the leaves aren't discolored--including no brown fuzz.

They were living in a big greenhouse in the center, so they were under sun the majority of the day. And the soil it was in sucked--didn't even have perlite. Maybe aphids? Fertilizer burn?

Most of my posts are made from paranoia--hopefully this one is too.

Thanks so much!

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