While doing what I usually do I found several oddly shaped new leaves… they were missing parts…
Being 6 days into flower, I had previously bound down a lot of branches, and on this particular one, with time the wires had slipped upwards and pressed new growth tightly together. I came to the conclusion that the no room to grow naturally was the cause for leafs to not developed properly.
If its a bug… it can be microscopic… do you have a microscope? A loup wont see them i dont think … it would be more difficult anyway
Some time later holes started to appear. I searched for days but could not find any signs of pest. Not even my loupe gave me any clues as to what was going on.
I had my suspicions that the coco I had foolishly put to use was not properly buffered, so I started to feed more CalMag. I had seen very tiny and early signs of Calcium deficiency. Rust spots here and there. I thought “Could these holes be some sort of deficency issue?”
Upped the CalMag from 2ml to 4 ml.
Still the holes slowy started to spread…and today I found a most vile crowd hanging out on my precious Lemon ( silver ) Haze!
Sorry I had to do so many, I can only post one picture per post.
Never had pest like this before. I am 6 days into flower and would love some good solid advice.
You could try spraying the plant with a soap and cayenne pepper solution.
Or BT, if the pests look like larvae. Its safe to use at this early stage of flower.
I am not too sure BT is available here, near the North Pole. Dishsoap and Cayenne I do have.
Looks like possible russet mites
@Terpsnpurps Ive had russet mites, they are usually found on the new growth. Russet mites dont eat through the leaves, they just make the growth look wrinkled like its some type of deficiency.
Just caught a russet mite on my tobacco (Deep Red Havanna) in the other room.
Time to conjure up selected forces of the dark.
Get em!!! Show em whos boss brother!
Check out this thread. This stuff works.
30 min to lights out…
What I got tonight:
Distilled Water
75% Ethanol
Citric Acid
Lactic Acid
Olive Oil
Rape seeds oil
Castor Oil
Should I wait and order Polysorbate 80, or get to work?
Id probably wait till you get everything. If possible you can take plants outside and spray off some of them with a hose to keep the numbers down while you wait.
I found spider mites used what I had canola oil ever clear Castile soap an water. Sprayed them with the water hose then soaked the plants. Let them dry and soaked 1 more time. goin on 4th week haven’t seen any damage on new growth or any sign of them. Cleaned the tent while the plants were out
Soaked my Blackberry Moon Rocks just before lights out. Mites are in hell now.
Test batch:
Distilled Water 500 g
Citric Acid 47 g
[Stirred until dissolved]
Olive Oil 100 g
Ethanol (73%) 100g
[shaked]
Then mixed both containers into my sprayer and shaked thourghly. This should result in a 9% solution. Don’t know about pH.
I’ll update tomorrow and report on how the BMR handled it.
That very first pic honestly looks like a hand-damaged leaf. Like it got pinched doing LST on a nearby branch or something. It doesn’t look out-of-sorts to me at all, just being one single edge leaf.
Now if you have a wehole branch expressing like that, then THAT might be a problem
