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health What's wrong with my choc bhutlah leaves?

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c4greene



I recently moved my plant from my screened in lanai to outside and every morning I notice this. I've sprayed with dishsoap and water and it didn't do anything.
 
Looks like sun/wind burn. A few of my plants outside look like this as well unfortunately due to some sporadic weather recently.
 
At this point, you should let it be.  The leaves are only showing spots.  If it was not hardened off sufficiently, you would be looking at bigger damages.  The other leaves look normal. (albeit suffering mildly from some other condition - really hard to get an idea from the partial pic)
 
Love the bark based mix, by the way.  Are you in compost and bark?
 
No, I haven't ever wiped the leaves off.  I'll have to start doing that. I didn't know that I should be doing that. The problem is in FL it rains everyday in summer basically and I won't be home to wipe them off after every storm. 

solid7 said:
Love the bark based mix, by the way.  Are you in compost and bark?
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It's a mix that I got from a local nursery so I'm not 100% sure.  I actually just started using it so I hope they do well with that bark. For some reason I thought the bark was a bad thing in the mix actually.
 
Sorry, I was referring to Calamari Kid's comment. I don't believe that rain/water will act as a magnifying agent. If true, summer rain would destroy leaves because we don't wipe them off after a rain shower. Kinda time consuming  :)
 
c4greene said:
No, I haven't ever wiped the leaves off.  I'll have to start doing that. I didn't know that I should be doing that. The problem is in FL it rains everyday in summer basically and I won't be home to wipe them off after every storm. 

It's a mix that I got from a local nursery so I'm not 100% sure.  I actually just started using it so I hope they do well with that bark. For some reason I thought the bark was a bad thing in the mix actually.
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Every day between 2 and 3, just like clockwork. :D
 
Pine bark is not a bad thing, and if anybody ever tells you that it is, they certainly aren't growing peppers in containers.  It's the internet, misinformation abounds...
 
It happens. I live in Central FL and it happens here and there. I have an overhang I put my plants under that usually keeps it from happening too bad. I used to use a shadecloth until I got used to the pattern of the sun and shade when it comes to the overhang .
 
So will this happen all summer long?  Just seems like eventually I'll run out of leaves and they'll all be burned! I've never had this happen inside my lanai. Guess that screen is clearly the difference because the sun hours are nearly identical.
 
It will stop with the first set of leaves that emerges under full sun.  Those earlier ones came out while the plant was indoors, no?
 
This plant also wilts basically everyday in sun. Should I move it or will it eventually get used to the sun and not wilt anymore?
 
Our sun is getting brutal about this time of year.  BOOM grow time is over, and that muggy shit is about to start in full force.  For your area, I'd be doing partial shade for the next week to two weeks.  Get full sun on it between 9 and 11 AM, OR between 5 and 7 PM.  Then move it out just a few inches farther from the shade for the next week or two.  After that, good to go.
 
I can't see your plant fully, so that's my advice, sight unseen.
 
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