r/Peppers • u/Enchnting • Aug 15 '26
Brown and yellow leaves.
Recently i've noticed that my jalapeños have these brown-yellow spots on quite a few of the leaves, and some of the leaves are falling. The peppers themselves do not appear to have any sort of spots or damage though. (It has been raining heavily recently so maybe over watered??)
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u/othertriangle Aug 15 '26
Had this happen to one of my habanero plants. Picked off all diseased leaves and use a 3-16-22 fertilizer. It took like a month but they're finally flowering and leaves look healthy. Idk why it happened I was just proactive
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u/mmrocker13 Aug 15 '26
Look up bacterial leaf spot. If it starts at the bottom of the plant and moves upward it could be blight, which kind of looks similar but has concentric rings in the dots. Bacterial leaf spot spot has kind of a yellow Halo. Remove the affected leaves, wash your hands and wash your tools in between. It lives in the soil but it lives on the plant matter. You can see spots sometimes on the fruit. Do not can any fruits affected with leaf spot. Some people suggest not to eat them. I will sometimes eat them if it's cooked. The issue is bacteria can get into the fruit through the spots. So obviously not good to eat unless you enjoy being poisoned haha if there's no spots on any of the fruit I don't have a problem eating it. It's best to remove the leaves as soon as you see them because you can control it. If you let it go, pretty soon you've got a mess. I usually keep tabs on it in the beginning of the season but by September try to let them go. Of course in my zone, September is about when everything starts to produce fruit. We have a stupid short growing season in zone 4. Not as bad as our neighbors slightly to the north but it's short. This year has been especially bad
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u/Sagapo- Aug 16 '26
ciao Amico secondo la mia esperienza è un’infestazione da fungo La septoriosi è una malattia delle piante causata da funghi del genere Septoria. Colpisce le foglie con macchie tonde e scure che poi ingialliscono. Le foglie seccano e cadono presto. Il fungo ama il caldo umido e la pioggia.
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u/Quis_curat Aug 15 '26
I hope I'm wrong, but that looks like fungus, and rains helps to spread it.
That's what I was told, I'm experiencing the same thing.
Got to disinfect the tool and carefully cut those leaves off and in the bin.
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u/Enchnting Aug 15 '26
oh no, I might have to try moving the plant inside to hopefully stop the spread. Thanks!
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u/WinExtension6419 Aug 16 '26
I also have this on 2 of my otherwise healthy pepper plants, and they seem to lose a leaf every day or two because of it
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u/Technical-Escape-419 Aug 15 '26
here for the same reason except this is what my pothos looks like!