I’ve got this funk happening on Sweet Sierra. Hunch is a little hot on P and K but bizarre to only appear on two shoots. I’ll bring some of the leaves in for microscope inspection maybe it’s mites or something.
LOL @MissinBissin yeah some eager beavers indeed. Looking forward to watching what happens this month I imagine they are going to explode
@funkyfunk you may be onto something. I actually rotated the plant the other day to check if it was something like that. I’ll take a look when I get back from breakfast and see if there is something else going on
In that first pic, the taco effect on the top leaves may be a point of concern. Only seen that from heat/dry, where most of the tops do it, or from Russet Mites. More localized like this, at least indoors, warrants immediate inspection. Little suckers are very very little, like size of or smaller than cystolith hairs. USB scopes mostly have enough magnification to show them, but they are not obvious if you haven’t seen them before. I spent days looking at the first ones we saw without realizing there were bugs at all.
Probably nothing, but wanted to sound an alert, just in case. They are voracious and multiply super fast, especially in warm temps.
Update on that… I’ve brought a few leaves in nightly to look for bugs with the microscope - zoomed in and zoomed out. I’m not seeing any mites or eggs.
Regarding the sunburn/exposure hypothesis, I already rotated the plant since I noticed it. I’m not noticing anything else happening in the spot where this started.
I’ve thought about just chopping the affected branches off, maybe it’s some sort of infection or something.
I’ll take some new pictures tomorrow. The situation seems pretty static
State of the Garden: Generally well. Top-dressed some EWC a few days ago. We’ve been eating more watermelons than normal, the rinds have gone out onto the dirt to feed the worms. Soil seems very healthy both in the raised beds and the 25-gallon bags.
I’m wondering about that too. I find other plants have the same kind of symptoms, to a much lower extend though. Leaves curling a bit toward their upside on the tops. There’s a color also of the new growths but I don’t know if it’s related to the cam or not. If you look at the romulan in particular.
There’s spots on the lowers of the most affected branches of the sweet sierra. Some others seems to have that too. Could it be some defs? Though that would be weird to affect that much only two tops. I’m terrible at that. Maybe summoning @George for a better diag could help
@funkyfunk I don’t see the same symptoms anywhere else, but maybe you see something I don’t. I chopped those weird branches yesterday morning and again inspected for bugs with the microscope. I can’t find mites but I’ve never seen them I don’t know what I’m looking for. I did zoom in enough to easily resolve the hair-like structures of the stems and lower leaves but looking at my PC right now I can’t find any snapshots.