Does anyone know what is wrong with my pepper plant leaves?

[dsenso]

Suddenly my pepper plant started having some spots on the leaves. Any knows what it is and how to treat it?

[pepperhead212]

Welcome to the forum!

Where are you located? If it got well down in the 40s, or lower, this might be the peppers reacting to those night time lows.

Fortunately, I don't get any diseases on my peppers, even in the very wet times, when many other vegetables get fungal diseases. However, there are a number of leaf spot diseases out there - bacterial, fungal, and viral. This does not look like any that I've seen pictures of, but those pictures are always of the advanced stages of the diseases. Keep an eye on them, to see if it gets worse - as long as it doesn't start increasing in size and numbers, and the peppers are doing well otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it, though if you want you could spray some sort of safe fungal spray, like baking soda or potassium bicarbonate, or some Serenade, though you don't really know if it is a fungus, if it is a disease.

[dsenso]

Thanks! I am in the DC area so it still warm here. The plant had a few Mealybugs the other day so I sprayed some soap and water on the leaves. The bugs are gone but the leaves changed within a few days after I sprayed with the soap water combination. Could it cause this?

[applestar]

what was the “soap” you used? What formula/recipe? — should have been real soap and not liquid detergent . And was the plant in the sun or rapidly dry, concentrating the droplets?

[dsenso]

I just used a liquid soup after someone suggesting online. I did it at night so it was not under the sun. I see under the leaves even have more spots

[imafan26]

It looks like the beginnings of bacterial spot or speck. Disease free seed and resistant plants are the best defense. Sanitation and picking off the diseases leaves help, but usually the plant will be plagued with this problem in humid conditions all its life. If this happens on young plants I usually pull them. If it occurs on production plants. I pull off the leaves and get rid of the plants after harvest. If I have a lot of pepper, tomatoes, and eggplant around, it is usually best to rogue out all plants that have severe bacterial spot or it will infect or sequester in other other plants.

[imafan26]

I reread this thread and missed at first that you sprayed the peppers with soap. Pepper can be sensitive to soap sprays and curl. That may be part of the problem.