I do know it’s not PM. That’s DE from my last application. I’ll spray and wipe dry the leaves. The underside I’ve looked at with a 120x microscope. Nothing at all to signal PM. It’s just a wind tunnel in there as humidity has a bad habit of sticking around I my place. I keep the door open and I have a fan on high exhausting the air out the room. Now the humidity is at a constant 55% and the temp is at 80f. Lights on or off it’s always those 2 the last 2 days. At 70 it was pretty cold in there and the humidity wouldn’t go below 65 and usually stuck around 80%.
The pests are fungus gnats for sure, but I’ve also looked at the powder on the leaves too. I can say under a microscope it’s definitely not mold. Just little chunks of powder. I’ll look again and update if they’re still sharp edges or rounded now, but either way little particles stuck on the hairs on the leaf is all it is. The fan leaves are very hairy at 120x magnification. they started to pump out trichomes like no other after I added the UV lights. Here’s some more recent pics.
Probably overwatering, gnats, and a sulfur deficiency. Tbh I’ve suspected that one for about a month now as it’s seemed to swing closer to that. I’ve changed up my methods a bit since I asked for help last. They were also nitrogen deficient soon after flowering started. I was feeding them 5g megacrop per 2 gallons and now it’s 5g per gallon. They have since started to respond really well.
They must be disease and pest resistant to only show mild issues at best from the 1000s of them i see on the soil. I’ll be doing all I can for these girls. I started the grow with no prep work and that was my biggest mistake as it’s caused me to basically have to watch them as they show issues. Good learning experience though for future grows. Next grow I’m going to be starting off with as much as I can get that I’ll need to deal with complications during the grow. Innoculating the soil, using fabric pots, sourcing better soil, sealing any light leaks, and I’ll be flipping them to flower after presex is shown exclusively. I grow for personal use, but I am extremely OCD about wasting money.
If I can save money overall by growing them to the absolute max I can(accounting for the 3x stretch to be safe). I’ll have Cal-Mag, BT, neem oil, beneficial nematodes, beneficial microbes, ladybugs or prefatory wasps, fpj, and compost teas ready for my next grow. I got another praying mantis in my garden. This one had some heft in the egg, so I’ll be waiting for it to hatch and help clean up my garden a bit I hope.
I caught some grey mold looking spots on Holly. I was extremely careful in pruning off the affected areas and removed them from the room asap. The shears are inside ISO RN.
Please tell me what I have to do ASAP. I don’t want this to get worse. The low humidity really is what saved it from spreading faster than it does on bread. If I need to buy something to fix this or something I can sweet talk my way into getting something for 30 or so, but more will take effort I’m willing to do as I want this grow to not catastrophically fail
I don’t think I can see those, so I’m not actually sure what’s being discussed when it’s brought up. If you can point out what you mean I can understand the question and answer.
To op, looks like over watering, which rotted roots, which caused the deficiency u now c. When u said a drop in the rh helped, kind of confirms it in my eyes
In the three pictures at the top of the thread, the plants color is a light lime green, but on my screen the images have what appear to be some sort of darker green stripes running top to bottom (maybe a watermark?).
I assumed it was overwatering, but the roots never smelled at all. The soil still smells like it did on day 1. Runoff has no foul smell either. The issue was fixed after I doubled the feed strength.
I do assume I got some root rot, but they haven’t been in sitting water for about a month now. Would this still be showing new symptoms 2-4 weeks after I drained the bin? It’s 26 days since now.
Oh those. Yeah my camera is failing on my phone. It took a hard fall on concrete at the beginning of the year. It’s essentially broken, but somehow functional enough to use it as a app free internet box LoL
I miss this phone before it dropped. It had way better pics without as many issues. Now the longer the camera is open the worse the quality of the pictures. The lines happen at that point
Lmk if anyone can ID that and if it’s mold or just DE or something else harmless. I got rid of anything that looked like the leaves had fuzz to the naked eye. At magnified levels it seems closer to dried salt TBH.
Increasing the temp from 70 to 80 has brought the humidity up to 60% from 50% an hour ago.
I’ll be rearranging fans. My most powerful one is going on high to vent that room out
Edit: 65% and climbing. For an unexplainable reason to me humidity is climbing faster than I can get rid of it. For now I’ve closed all windows. My kitchen vent is on high and that usually had a bad habit of sucking out all the cold in the house. If I’m lucky it’ll help. It seems it’s more humid outside than it feels, so I’m not letting any outside air in for the night.
If it’s mold try Hydrogen peroxide. I personally kept overwatering my first grow. I have went with less water more often and have solved that problem now. I found it took me awhile to find my perfect groove there.
I’m still unsure if it was mold or some film that formed and dried on them, but I didn’t chance it. No more spots are showing symptoms ATM. The fluctuating temps and humidity definitely seem to have affected the trichomes though. I’d rather that than mold for sure though. Wolfie is just chilling on Holly. I see many less gnats today. I saw a swarm after I watered. Now maybe 100 or so are visible around the room in total. Give or take 50ish. Either way that’s down from 1000s of them. They were separated by 3x the body length of each other just chilling in massive groups on the soil. Now I see small clusters hiding on leaves rn🤷🏻♂️
Probably about 20 on the soil last I saw. That’s one hungry spider. Wolfie can stay as long as they like. Just don’t bite me. Be like the one that creeped me out and drowned itself by accident. Just creep me out and say hi staring me dead in the eyes like they did after landing on my neck and chest all the time.
For some reason spiders only bite me when I’m sleeping, but when I’m up they’re friendly like Charlotte. I have arachnophobia and only fuzzy spiders pass for me. The fur somehow makes them cute to me. Just like permanent puppy dog eyes begging for bugs to eat
Glad to see things getting better. Powdery mildew hard as hell to get rid of so glad it’s not that. If you do have some mold showing up spray lysol disinfectant (not on plants) and wipe down entire area with bleach diluted water.
Hope those spiders aren’t, “black widows”, which are common here where I live and have read of people buying Foxfarm infested with, “black widows”.
my remedy for fungus gnats is let pot dry out until you see plant slightly drooping (I know some people water that way all the time…lol…and get’s a lot of hermies). They die quickly without moisture and, “no-pest”, strips can help with the clean up also.
I didn’t know about that. Actually oddly enough the gnat population has drops from 1000s to what looks like 100s now. It’s definitely a wolf spider. They come in my house all the time. It’s a very comfortable environment for insects, so I am regularly killing the biting ones. Jumping spiders may be good in a grow room for pest management, but they bit people without warning. My guess is they think we invaded their territory even though we were here first.
Wolf spiders bite also and are much worse than black widows. They’re not that deadly btw. Look it up if you want to. I was surprised to find out they have killed almost no one ever. They do have a toxic bite, but it’s not that bad tbh. You need to get bit s lot by a black widow to see real issues outside of lesions.
Sheldon moment aside I still kill black widows on sight. While my immune system is fine my roommate’s isn’t. Venom isn’t as bad. Wolfie’s that small don’t bug people. The ones that come in my house seem to respect boundaries outside if mine. They love to land on me and freak me out. They’re adorable if they’re begging for food, but otherwise freaky AF up close when it’s sitting on your chest looking up at you. I’ve always been a bug magnet. Water beetles find me irresistible for whatever reason. Always have since I was a kid.
I sprayed the plants around 6pm with 3% hydrogen peroxide. I planned on a nuke strategy rather than a repeated application, but I can always refill the spray bottle. I sprayed the soil and plants entirely top and bottom. I’d rather a foul taste than risk bud rot. Sprayed all 4 plants and all the cuttings to be safe.
If you meant the tint red spider it definitely wasn’t a black widow. You see a black body and a red or white hourglass depending on gender around here.
Probably just a random tiny spider. I used to see them everywhere around Gloucester in the spring.
What is a blurple? Pardon my stupidity. I’ve heard the term, but I have not taken the time to look up the info. Now that it has come up in a conversation, I have GOT to ask?
