Is white powdery mildew shiny?

Retailing

Retailing

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Just a quick question, is white powdery mildew shiny? From one angle it goes clear, then look at it from another and looks almost like light reflects off it? I’ve just wiped it off one of my plants and I’m left wondering what it was
 
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spek9

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Can you show pictures, with the grow lights off? Entire plant, plus at least one containing a close-up of an affected leaf.

Shiny white/silver slime looking stuff makes me think of thrips. Have a look here.
 
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spek9 said:
Can you show pictures, with the grow lights off? Entire plant, plus at least one containing a close-up of an affected leaf.

Shiny white/silver slime looking stuff makes me think of thrips. Have a look here.
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It was literally the size of a pimple you could get on your face and it was on only one of my plants. It had a kind of oily look to it but was dry. I wiped it off so can’t get a picture :/
 
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spek9

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Retailing said:
Only the 1 small speck on one leaf
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OK. Keep your eye on the plants very closely for the next few days. Without seeing it, it's impossible to hazard a quality guess. Could have been as simple as a water droplet or something.
 
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It’s definitely not thrips, I haven’t had any sort of bug problem yet (I say yet because it’s still possible. Just hope I get lucky!)
 
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spek9 said:
OK. Keep your eye on the plants very closely for the next few days. Without seeing it, it's impossible to hazard a quality guess. Could have been as simple as a water droplet or something.
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It could potentially be that, I was just curious. I’ve just read that it’s almost like flour (WPM) and what I wiped was nothing like that so I’m going on to guess evaporated water, but still going to keep a close eye on the 4 plants
 
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spek9

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Retailing said:
It could potentially be that, I was just curious. I’ve just read that it’s almost like flour (WPM) and what I wiped was nothing like that so I’m going on to guess evaporated water, but still going to keep a close eye on the 4 plants
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If you see it again, get some pics and post back here as soon as possible.
 
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