It's a Sugar Rush Stripey. I have some aphids to deal with too, I know, but I'm not as concerned about those. Is it enough to cut off the infected leaves, or will it keep spreading regardless?
It's not my highest priority pepper, but it's the only one of these I'm growing this year, and I think they're very pretty. It would be a shame to lose it.
by High_Pyrorities
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Following this. I was curious myself. My fire & ice pepper plant has spots like that on the leaves but its creating peppers okay. They taste good and don’t see any bugs
Looks like it could be – I had a few peppers that developed leaf spot last year and it looks pretty similar. Most of them kept growing reasonably well and still produced fruit, though some of the fruits were spotted too. It’s apparently contagious, so I’d keep it separate from your other pepper plants and not use the same tools if you trim any leaves
In my experience cutting the affected leaves doesn’t really do anything. It might keep the disease from spreading quite as fast, but I found that eventually most leaves had at least a few spots, so I’d have to cut off pretty much all the leaves lol
[Here’s a good source with pics](https://peppergeek.com/spots-on-pepper-leaves/) of a variety of spotting issues for comparison
This is a virus. Localise, isolate, eliminate, heal over, change soil with a full root wash.