Are these what I think they are?

I fear they are mites. Second week of flower. Should I treat or scrap and sterilize tent?

What’s the leaves look like, those do look like eggs on the second pic

hybridbuds said:

I fear they are mites. Second week of flower. Should I treat or scrap and sterilize tent?

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I think you're correct. I don't have much experience with mites in flower but I'd probably treat them if they're not out if control. Have you looked all over closely? How bad does the infestation seem?

So there’s no webs yet. The leaves were just starting to look a little off, which prompted a closer look. I saw maybe 3-4 red dots and I picked the leaves they were on and scoped. I applied a spray that is supposed to kill mites. But the eggs will probably survive… I may try rinsing the plants and using more of the spray.

Cboat38 said:

What’s the leaves look like, those do look like eggs on the second pic

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The leaves look dry almost burned and there is some wilting of newer growth

hybridbuds said:

So there’s no webs yet. The leaves were just starting to look a little off, which prompted a closer look. I saw maybe 3-4 red dots and I picked the leaves they were on and scoped. I applied a spray that is supposed to kill mites. But the eggs will probably survive… I may try rinsing the plants and using more of the spray.

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Try Dr zymes.

hybridbuds said:

So there’s no webs yet. The leaves were just starting to look a little off, which prompted a closer look. I saw maybe 3-4 red dots and I picked the leaves they were on and scoped. I applied a spray that is supposed to kill mites. But the eggs will probably survive… I may try rinsing the plants and using more of the spray.

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Hopefully you've caught them in time. Good luck!

I don't see any legs on whatever that is, doubt it's a mite.

GrassBurner said:

I don't see any legs on whatever that is, doubt it's a mite.

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See that was my first thought but after flipping the picture around and comparing it with other mites side by side they looked fairly similar. I also figured depending on the angle it may be deceptive. Not like it's the clearest picture anyhow.

Killaki said:

See that was my first thought but after flipping the picture around and comparing it with other mites side by side they looked fairly similar. I also figured depending on the angle it may be deceptive. Not like it's the clearest picture anyhow.

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Doesn't look like a mite to me either. Not a spider mites anyways. Not saying definitively that it's not, but from the pic, it really doesn't look like it imo.

I’m a bit OCD and I’ve never had a bug problem… I check my plants several times a day and I’ve seen 3-4 of those orange/red things. I’ve picked them off and they’re hard to really get a good shot of with my scope… could it be a mite damaged by an insecticidal spray? I do apologize for low quality images. I also don’t really know if the round spherical shaped things are eggs or not. They’re not clustered like I would think eggs would be. They’re evenly dispersed on every leaf.

I was also thinking it could be some type of scale bug? In any case I made a neem solution with dish soap and misted the foliage. I also top dressed with Diotomacious Earth. We will have to see how it plays out I guess. Thanks for the input everyone.

hybridbuds said:

I was also thinking it could be some type of scale bug? In any case I made a neem solution with dish soap and misted the foliage. I also top dressed with Diotomacious Earth. We will have to see how it plays out I guess. Thanks for the input everyone.

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If you get a chance, take more pics, more than just 2. Those look like eggs to me. The other pic, could be a mite that got fucked up by insecticide.

Here are some more. None with scope here, but you can see the small red/brown thing I scoped the other day on the underside of a leaf.

Bugs come and go, I don't see any obvious pest damage and you're pretty early into flower by the looks of it, just continue whatever you're doing for IPM and keep watching. There are very few pests I would bother scrapping an entire harvest for outside of russets unless my plants were literally swarming with them.

I've seen similar things on the stalks of my plants and nothing ever came of it. I think they were thrip eggs that got fried by my ipm as I had a few signs of thrip damage at the time (mostly just a little puke on the leaves or whatever they leave)

If you're really worried spinosad or some of the new strains of beauveria bassiana like the one in Velifer Target mites and should be fine to use at that point in flower. There are also other options like citric acid but I've never personally used that in flower and I'm not sure if you can or can't honestly.