Update: even more bugs!
I have mites! All the signs were there early on (now I know). I also had mealybugs (tiny white fuzzy things I sprayed out of buds and collected with a q-tip with alcohol on it).
So I remember about a month or so ago seeing a reddish/brown patch on a leaf (the same as my rose bushes). I didn’t know at the time that a was a collection of Russet mites.
I also noticed some webbing and realized I also have spider mites.A small cactus my wife bought some months back had a spider web on it (ah-huh)!
Also, had/have white-flies (last post meant white-flies when I said mealybugs but have them too). Below is a pic of a white fly that has turned dark in the week or so it’s been stuck.
The mites looked like tiny brown dots and some clear dots and some white dots (spider mites?) on underside of leaves. It has frozen here (down to 24 degrees Fahrenheit here) so instead of reddish/rust colored brown just brown now on my rose bushes. Lower pic some leaf hopper bites (had some of those too…wish I took a pic at one I found dead on floor of grow closet).
These roses were just sprayed a week ago and nearly every week prior and will likely lose one or two. Never have I seen anything like this here. I have roses all around my house!
Here is a pic a day after sprayed with Mother’s oil weirdness. It helped but too many leaves twisted and deformed from mites (a sign too look out for) so chopped em back and put back in veg.
So now have a Pineapple Haze #5 and #3 flowering and a #5 clone to start flower. The rest in veg and will remake clones and not introduce anything new into flower until I get this thing that’s bugging me over with. Ya, they just trying to make their way in the world (just like me) but I ain’t destroying someones medicine to do it…lol.
I have a fair amount of time,effort, and money into these Pineapple Haze so gonna try and save em but realize I may have to chuck everything and start from scratch. I have learned a great deal about mites, etc. so that’s good.
Below are current pics of #3 and big and small #5’s. The small #5 looking a little weepy from Mother’s oil weirdness but looks like may have killed the mites (moved light further back and shut off a few as too intense light and oils can make problem).
Been switching between sprays and found the Spinosad stuff has worked the best. Mite eggs can hatch every three days so now still spraying every two days between Mother’s weirdness (not on budding plants though) and mostly Spinosad and then also Neem with .25% Pyrethrins, and dish soap spray and some Safer stuff that is mostly Sulfer and fatty acids. Trying to stick with the Spinosad on the budding plants.
This last pic of recently pruned clones as tops were all twisted and deformed from mites.
