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Cockscomb Leaf Spots: Causes & How to Fix It

Round spots, ring patterns, water-soaked patches, or a mottled mosaic on the leaves or fruit of your cockscomb. The colour, shape, and spread of the spots are the biggest clue to which disease it is.

Check these first

  • What colour are the spots, and do they have a yellow halo?
  • Are there concentric rings or a mosaic pattern?
  • Are the spots only on leaves, or also on stems and fruit?

Most likely causes

From the pests and diseases recorded for this plant, the ones whose symptoms match, most serious first. Symptoms alone rarely confirm a cause, so use the linked page to check the signs and treatment.

Late Blight

Dark green water-soaked lesions appear on the leaves and expand quickly into brown dead tissue. White mold forms on the underside and at the lesion edge, and dark brown lesions spread to stems and fruit.

General description; not specific to this plant.

How to identify and treat: Late Blight

Anthracnose

Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.

General description; not specific to this plant.

How to identify and treat: Anthracnose

Ring Rot

The bark of branches and trunk becomes rough and warty, serving as the inoculum source. Fruit develops round brown lesions that soften and rot in concentric rings.

General description; not specific to this plant.

How to identify and treat: Ring Rot

Other possible causes

  • Leaf Spot — Small round brown to gray-white lesions appear on the lower leaves, the centers turning gr…

Other symptoms on this plant

What other growers did about it

A page like this one can tell you what cockscomb leaf spots is and what to try. What it cannot tell you is what actually happened to someone who had it on the same plant, at the same point in the season, and what they did next.

Gadenin is a free garden journal built around that. You photograph the plant, tag what you are seeing, and the entries line up by date for each plant you grow.

  • Tag the problem and the app tells you how many other growers have logged the same thing on the same plant.
  • Growers who make their records public can be followed, so you can read what they did and how it turned out.
  • Next season your own entries come back at the same point in the year, so you check the plant before it starts.

Free on iPhone. Recording, tagging and reading public records cost nothing.

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Close-up photos of a spot with a date are the fastest way to match a disease later, and to see whether new spots are still appearing.

See what other growers did about it

Log it in the free Gadenin app and tag what you are seeing. Your photos line up by date so you can tell whether it is spreading, and you can see how many other growers have logged the same problem on the same plant, follow them and read what they did next.

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