I started plants inside (started 6-7wks ago) and have been putting them outside most the day to get sunshine. My pepper plants have started getting whitish spots on their leaves along with a tomato leaf. It doesnt look exactly like powdery mildew to me. I live in the desert so its dry. I'll attach some pictures. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Pepper leaves getting spots!
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Doesn't look like a fungus. Hard to tell but some of the white looks like insect bites and some of the white looks like eggs, maybe both. Take your fingers and see if the white rolls of the leaves. If it does those are eggs. If not then it is insect bites.
I've tried rubbing the leaves with my fingers but nothing seems to come off. Is there something I can do to prevent the insect bites? Does that normally harm the plant?
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I think it's powdery mildew. The pots that the seedlings are growing in are too big so the soil has remained too damp for the seedlings to cope with and causing the mildew.
It isn't eggs then.
Yes you might be right now that I look again and flea beetles usually punch through the leaf. Pictures only zoom in so far in Windows. You can spray the leaves with a 50/50 hydrogen peroxide solution a few times to possibly stop the fungus but whatever leaves are affected will still look bad. Also you can supposedly spray the leaves with milk but I've never tried that.