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- 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.
Tomato Spotted Wilt
Brown necrotic spots and ring patterns appear on the leaves and the growing tips shrivel and darken. Fruit develops concentric yellow rings that make it unmarketable.
How to identify and treat: Tomato Spotted WiltTobacco Mosaic Virus
New leaves show a clear light-and-dark green mosaic, become wavy and stay small. Growth stalls and fruit fails to size up properly.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Tobacco Mosaic VirusBrown Leaf Spot
Small light brown to gray-brown spots form on the leaves and enlarge into irregular lesions. When they merge the whole leaf dies and plant vigor drops sharply.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Brown Leaf SpotOther possible causes
- Bacterial Spot — Small water-soaked spots appear on the leaves, later turning brown with yellowing around t…
- Tomato Mosaic Virus — Light and dark mosaic appears on the leaves, which narrow, twist and crinkle. Fruit ripens…
- Powdery Mildew — White patches appear scattered on the upper leaf surface at first, then the whole leaf is …
- Late Blight — Dark green water-soaked lesions appear on the leaves and expand quickly into brown dead ti…
- Anthracnose — Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, sligh…
- Ring Rot — The bark of branches and trunk becomes rough and warty, serving as the inoculum source. Fr…
- Root-lesion Nematode — Elongated blackish brown necrotic lesions form on the root surface and fine roots rot away…
Other symptoms on this plant
What other growers did about it
A page like this one can tell you what eggplant 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.