The leaves were wet (I had just sprayed the insecticidal soap) and collected to take photo. I pruned my plants a month ago so nothing within two feet of ground surface. Interestingly, I added pine straw mulch just last week. I notice others have had problems with pine straw, so removed the pine straw this morning. Will get some pine bark nuggets for mulch.
I removed most of the affected leaves last night. I was out inspecting leaves this morning and but found a few leaves I missed with brown. Attached is photo of back of leaf while still on plant. Also, the front after picking it off. Also, I see some black even on stems that rubs off. Maybe it is just mold. Pine straw gets moldy fast.
Happy to see no more flying insects this AM. The insecticidal soap took care of those.
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