Hi there!
Sadly its few weeks that im battling against Broad mites…
I had the whole garden fucked up and almost at the point to trow everything away but…
I decided to fight…
After various treatments in veg (abamectin, hexitiazox , spinosad and sulfur wp) i got the basterds to chill…now the garden has all healthy grow all over , everything seems fine but I know that this basterds are hard to kill, so I sprayed Beauveria bassiana and flipped to flower waiting on some predatory mites to get here in few days…
Now…I got a miscoscope and Im lookin at some leaves, but the only thing I can see are those white balls, that doesn’t resemble at all BM
To me… that looks like what I call oil trichs lol cuz I don’t know the term
But too perfectly round, evenly placed and seemingly part of the plant…
As you see in the last pic on the right side, those are trichs without heads, usually run along the stems or leaf bottoms so it’s only natural that the others would be the “oil trichs” someone help me with an actual term here lol
Trichomes grow in numerous shapes and sizes on many types of plants. The cannabis plant has developed three main types (from NationMaster Encyclopedia):
Bulbous: This type is the smallest (15 to 30 micrometers). From one to four cells make up the ‘foot’ and ‘stalk’, and one to four cells make up the ‘head’ of the gland. Head cells secrete a resin, presumably cannabinoids, and related compounds that accumulate between the head cells and the cuticle. When the gland matures, a nipple-like protrusion may form on the membrane from the pressure of accumulating resin. The bulbous glands are found scattered about the surfaces of the above ground plant parts.
Capitate-Sessile: The second type of gland is larger (25 to 100 micrometers) and more numerous than the bulbous glands. They are called capitate, which means having a globular-shaped head. On immature plants, the heads lie flush, appearing not to have a stalk and are called capitate sessile. They have a stalk that is one cell high, although it may not be visible beneath the globular head. The head is composed of usually eight, but up to 16 cells, that form a convex rosette. These cells secrete cannabinoids and related compounds that accumulate between the rosette and its outer membrane. This gives it a spherical shape.
