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- Does the yellowing start at the bottom of the plant or at the tips?
- Are the veins still green while the rest of the leaf fades? That points to a nutrient deficiency.
- Look under the leaves for tiny insects or white specks.
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.
Verticillium Wilt
Only one side of the lower leaves yellows and wilts, and the symptom moves up the plant. Stem vascular tissue turns pale brown and the plant dies without ever growing well.
How to identify and treat: Verticillium WiltMagnesium Deficiency
Yellowing appears between the veins of the lower leaves while the veins stay green, giving a net-like pattern. It later browns and dies back, and is most obvious on plants carrying a heavy fruit load.
How to identify and treat: Magnesium DeficiencySunscald
The sun-facing side of the fruit bleaches white to pale yellow, then dries into a sunken leathery patch. Rot organisms enter easily through the damaged tissue.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: SunscaldOther possible causes
- Bacterial Spot — Small water-soaked spots appear on the leaves, later turning brown with yellowing around t…
- Powdery Mildew — White patches appear scattered on the upper leaf surface at first, then the whole leaf is …
- Root Rot — Fine roots rot brown to blackish brown, growth stops and the lower leaves yellow. The plan…
- 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 leaves turning yellow 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.