Hello UBC Botanical forum users, I have several porch plants that I started from seed. I have an herb side and a butterfly garden side. I am attaching the pictures for identification purposes. I need to learn how to treat it. The heart shaped plant is a morning glory plant and has a scary splatter of yellow spots and I see the same splatter in all of my plants as well as my neighbors. The seedlings from the round container are cilantro that is not of good resolution but is having this "iridescent" appearance on it's leaves and don't appear edible. I am also finding some tiny winged insects in the soil of three of my containers. They are so tiny smaller than grains of salt. My neighbor has an eggplant that perished the same way as my morning glory plant. And her Brussels sprouts plant is dying of the same thing. She has an outdoor cat that is neutered and I have caught him spraying his territory. I suspect that he has been spraying urine on our plants because he likes to get cozy by the containers. I live in an apartment. My porch is full shade...is it a possibility that I am depriving my plants of sunlight. I live in Zone 9(perhaps zone 8b) of southern Alabama too. The climate is really blazing and my plants wilt in the heat if I re-locate it in full sun. All replies and advice are deeply appreciated!
Sounds like a combination of too little sun, Spider mites and Fungus Gnats. If it were mine I'd pitch the works into the compost heap and start over. Fungus gnats can be a bear to get rid of, and it'd cost too much in time and chemicals to get every thing back to good health.
