Question
Hi,
I live in south eastern British Columbia. Last summer I grew several pepper plants of different varieties in my greenhouse. At the end of the season, before I had cleaned out the greenhouse the temperature dropped to around freezing and killed all of the pepper plants, except for one Habenero. I brought the survivor inside and it seems to be doing fairly well. A few weeks ago I started taking cuttings from the plant and rooting them in peat pellets on a heating pad, under glass jars to retain moisture.

Today I began potting some of the clones and noticed that many of them have what appears to be a moist, grainy looking, light colored substance on the undersides of some of the leaves, others have brownish specks on them which I assume is a more advanced stage.
Also many of the new leaves are curled upwards and/or are deformed and the leaves that I trimmed when taking the cuttings are blackening along the cut edges.
I looked at the clones under a magnifying glass and didn't see any movement of the specks...
Any ideas as to what I could be dealing with?
Thank you!

Answer
It sounds like a fungus of some kind, the environment they are in is probably too moist. Try cutting off the affected leaves and spraying the plants with a sulfur solution or neem oil. Make sure the soil they are in is not too wet.

I think it's pretty "iffy" to try and save them, but it's worth a shot.

Elyse