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swirls on me bhut...
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no, i found out i got leaf miners...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_miner
crazy right...? i just googled "pepper plant disease" and went into images... i noticed that it hasn't been spreading to my other plants and i did spray insecticide not that long ago... so i might've killed they they...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_miner
crazy right...? i just googled "pepper plant disease" and went into images... i noticed that it hasn't been spreading to my other plants and i did spray insecticide not that long ago... so i might've killed they they...
AlabamaJack
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leaf miners are hard to get rid of unless you use a systemic pesticide...they are in between the layers of the leaf and are protected from topical applications...
AlabamaJack
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there are leaf miners that are on top of the surface and ones that bore into the substrates of the leaf itself...depends on which ones you have...
I am almost positive I read that somewhere...maybe someone else will chime in...
I am almost positive I read that somewhere...maybe someone else will chime in...
+1 on leaf miners Common on azaleas and some rhodadendrons [background=white],[/background] disfigure but do not seem to cause serious damage to the plants.
I've had a few leaves out of the 30 plus plants I have show those patterns. I figured it was some parasite but it doesn't seem to hurt (as said above) on mine so I'd rather not forgo the neem treatment as my plants always seem to drop flowers when I neem them. I just leave them (heh a pun!) or pull the affected leaf.
Sounds like Imidacloprid - crazy, nasty systemic insecticide. Linked to colony collapse disorder in bees.
That being said leaf miners are a bitch to deal with.
The only natural way I've dealt with them is regular foliar treatments of neem oil. Twice a week at sundown until the population is reduced by 90% or gone. It is not an immediate knock down effect but it works given a couple weeks. You may not get rid of miners altogether but you can manage them to the point where it is acceptable.
That being said leaf miners are a bitch to deal with.
The only natural way I've dealt with them is regular foliar treatments of neem oil. Twice a week at sundown until the population is reduced by 90% or gone. It is not an immediate knock down effect but it works given a couple weeks. You may not get rid of miners altogether but you can manage them to the point where it is acceptable.
They are a pain my neighbor helped me dig a few out, they seem to come in with the grape vines going into overdrive my plants that are away from the grape vines got ignored.
