Anyone know what these White spots are on my Jalapeno Peppers? I only have found a few of them, not enough to be worried about but I am curious what is causing them. I do have a lot of stinkbugs near my tomato plants which are near the Peppers, and it kind of looks like what a stinkbug does to a tomato only the spots are White. Will stinkbugs eat a Jalapeno?

I have noticed the same on mine this year. Haven't seen anything like it in the past. I don't have any ideas, cuz i've not seen any pests.
Hopefully someone will pop in with some ideas.
I'll be watching...

That is the first stage of sunscald, which is exactly what it says on the label: leave the pepper long enough on the plant and the skin will become thin and papery, which is usually the stage when people notice them and start spraying the plant with homemade remedies thinking about some exotic fungal infection.

The bad news is there are no surefire cures for sunscald, the good news is it usually only affects a part of the harvest.
You can mitigate its effects by slightly increasing watering and perhaps by putting something to give a bit of shade in the late afternoon when UV is at its daily peak. Camo netting and old bedsheets work fine, but you can just cut some branches from a bush and plant them in front of the pepper plants to mitigate sunlight exposure.

Some pepper cultivars seem more prone to sunscald than others: there are so many Jalapeno varieties out there and some (by personal experience) are prone not just to sunscald but to small cracks as well... just like the one on the right in the picture!

Either sunscald or slug damage.

These are called cloud spots.
They are from Stink Bugs.
Not from sun scald. The key here is the skin is still intact and not thin. 2nd, sun scald would have a uniform spot that faces the direction of the sun. Those are random spots and on the bottom. Other than natural predators, Neem oil as a foliage spray is the best and safest way to curb those cloud spots if it gets out of control. One or two peppers, I don't bother with. Happy Gardening!!

I have the same problem. Stink bug seems like the right answer.

I don't know what the white spots are on the peppers, but the "cracks" on the jalapenos are known as "corking" and are actually considered desirable by some jalapeno aficionados (although personally I'd just as soon have mine nice and smooth).

I tend to think stinkbugs or some other piercing/stinking insect. In my limited knowledge, I agree with @CoachGerry that sun scald would cause larger splotches and the splotches would be facing the sun. Too many small splotches. Never heard them called cloud spots.

Welcome to the forum, @CoachGerry !!!

What Sandy said about the corking. I cooked up a big mess of heatless jalapenos the other day that had lots of corking...very tasty even if the heat wasn't there.

How did you cook your heatless jalapenos, Ed? I have two plentiful plants worth of heatless jalapeno. I was thinking I'd just chop them up and freeze them, use them later .. sort of just sub for bell pepper.

A taddifferent taste from bells but they should work fine.

I used 14 peppers for this. I laid them out, rolled them ninety degrees and cut them down the middle..this seemed to help them lay flat. . Scraped the innards out. Mixed a brick of cream cheese with plenty of bacon bits. Threw in a really hefty "pinch" of sharp cheddar cheese...maybe a third to half cup. Mixed it well. Stuffed the halves and sprinkled a few bacon bits on top. Baked at 425F for around 20 minutes.

I've got some hot jalapeños that I'm going to mince up and mix in the cheese for part of the next batch. Might go with shrimp and taco-flavored beef in a few just to see how they taste.

Of course there's the poblanos that are getting bigger. I'll be eating peppers for a while!

thanks, ed! I need to make myself spend some time Saturday processing vegetables.

Those heatless jalapeno types are sure delicious. Supposed to have the jalapeno taste without the jalapeno heat. I just know they taste good.