I have that stuff on nearly every pepper plant in my garden and it has been that way for years. It seems every year we get more and more diseases and then we will have a good year where they let up only to be followed by a disastrous year. I have tried everything to keep the BLS under control and none of them has worked. They have however slowed the disease down enough to allow me to have a bumper crop of bell peppers and Jalapenos. My Malagueta and Cayenne peppers don't seem to be bothered by it. I also have had more TSWV and the ever present fusarium wilt problems which only magnify the problems of growing peppers here. This year late summer has been really bad because of the high level of whitefly infestation which seems to spread the disease and they are impossible to keep under control unless you want to spray poisons every day. You can kill millions of them and in a few days there are millions more. It isn't a good idea to wear a green shirt into the garden right now or you will be swarmed by them.
Pick off the diseased leaves as fast as they show up and it will help slow the spread and use a copper spray every week. I can't keep up with all my diseased leaves now but I did early in the summer and it really helped.
Bill
Bill
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