This is a super sweet 100 cherry. It's the only one that has this. I have other potted plants with the same soil mix.
by XtraThickBacon
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Lokky
That’s a fungus, remove affected leaves and spray a fungicide, up to you whether to destroy the affected plant altogether or risk having it spread, it will most likely keep traveling up your plant even if you start spraying now
ASecularBuddhist
Is it MiracleGro soil? If not, do you know what brand it is?
ohyanno
Funguses are usually black/dark brown – this is very characteristic damage from flea beetles. I would still remove this bc the damaged leaves are more susceptible to disease and blight. There’s not a whole lot of effective organic measures to control flea beetles. Pyrethroids work well if you’re into that. I just let my plants outgrow the damage and remove the chewed up leaves.
trebuchetguy
I don’t believe you have any disease going on here. Those are flea beetle nips. Flea beetles are tiny, shiny black beetles the size of small ants. You might see one on the leaves if you look very closely in the morning while it’s cool. They are hard to see at all. If you disturb one it will likely jump out of sight. Thus the ‘flea’ part of their name. You have good mulch, and that’s the best prevention. I have wood chip mulch too and I still get them, but they will be worse without the mulch. They will not do significant damage. They’ll only bother the lower leaves. Prune them off when they die, but there’s no rush. Here’s a pic of flea beetle damage to a tomato leaf from my local university extension office:
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That’s a fungus, remove affected leaves and spray a fungicide, up to you whether to destroy the affected plant altogether or risk having it spread, it will most likely keep traveling up your plant even if you start spraying now
Is it MiracleGro soil? If not, do you know what brand it is?
Funguses are usually black/dark brown – this is very characteristic damage from flea beetles. I would still remove this bc the damaged leaves are more susceptible to disease and blight. There’s not a whole lot of effective organic measures to control flea beetles. Pyrethroids work well if you’re into that. I just let my plants outgrow the damage and remove the chewed up leaves.
I don’t believe you have any disease going on here. Those are flea beetle nips. Flea beetles are tiny, shiny black beetles the size of small ants. You might see one on the leaves if you look very closely in the morning while it’s cool. They are hard to see at all. If you disturb one it will likely jump out of sight. Thus the ‘flea’ part of their name. You have good mulch, and that’s the best prevention. I have wood chip mulch too and I still get them, but they will be worse without the mulch. They will not do significant damage. They’ll only bother the lower leaves. Prune them off when they die, but there’s no rush. Here’s a pic of flea beetle damage to a tomato leaf from my local university extension office:
https://preview.redd.it/rlubgqf60i3d1.png?width=255&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4744d1674fe2f1713097c57fa5bc09041333dbb
Neem oil spray, should correct your problem,
flea beetles for sure. They usually go away after a month or so.