Hello all,

I'm relatively new to gardening and planted some peppers in 2 and 3 gallon pots in my backyard in Houston, TX. My serrano plants and jalapeno plants are all looking healthy, but my habanero plant keeps dropping its leaves.

The leaves look otherwise healthy and not munched on or anything and the plants are still sprouting new leaves so I doubt its a soil problem. They turn yellow and just fall off. That leads me to believe that this is some sort of pest problem. I remember reading about some sort of bug that bores into the stems and sucks the juices out so that the leaves die but I can't remember what it's called or how to stop it.

I'd like to take care of this problem using as few chemicals as possible seeing as I plan to eat peppers from this plant in the future. Thanks in advance for any advice you guys have.