May Lotito wrote:Thanks Noah for sharing! The spots do look like bacterial or fungal infections. Do you recall any unusual weather before the spots showed up, like heavy rain immediately followed by sunny days? That is the recipe for fungal outbreak and sometimes sudden death in my plants. Top dressing with compost and building up healthy soil help keeping pathogens in check. Mints root very easily so you will get the plant growing back just fine.
The plant came to me with a few leaves already like this, so i don't know what the weather was like where it came from. I did cut off the leaves that were infected but it still spread. While i had the plant it was indoors. It had one good water when it was potted then it was left with no water. I did not water the leaves, of course, just the soil. It was maybe a week or so in the window and the plant was half covered in the same blobs. It seemed to move up the plant, but maybe it was just because the infection started at the bottom.
Luckily it doesn't look like it spread to any of the other plants in the window, and the two cuttings so far look like they are clean too. I will be watching them closely!
This was a freebie so no big deal if it dies.
I just realised i called it spanish mint in the original post. It is swiss mint. Not sure why i said spanish

hopefully i can edit that and correct it now.