Bug or Fungus

desert girl

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I have a Pineapple Chunk. Germinated Dec 30 in warm wet paper towels. Quickly had a tap root. In less than a week I had a good healthy root, and I planted her directly in a 2 gal pot (we can place this pot on top of another to give it more root room should we need to down the line) our water is high Ph so I only water with practically no Ph water. The soil maintains a 6.5 Ph. Her home is in a mixture of Fox Farm potting soil, mixed with aprox 50% Light Warrior, some perlite and a couple tablespoons of lime. She is under 2 100 Watt 6500k cfls. Last night I noticed a small group of yellowish and white spots on one of her large fan leaves. This would not wipe off or come of when sprayed with a mist bottle. If I gently raise the leaf, I can tell where the spots are with the light shining through the leaf, but if I bend it over so there is no light shining through I cannot see any sign of the spot under the leaf. Avg temp is running 60 - 70, humidity in the 40's. I also have 3-4 other leaves with the spots beginning. I just found this last night. Now I am going to attempt a couple pictures. Overall she is a super growing plant until this. And fyi - I am a stickler for clean. Her room is the cleanest in the house. She is in half the closet. As of this time I have given her no nutes since FF is full of nutes and she is growing so well. Thanks for your help. Now pictures.
 

Moishe

Active Member
Sounds like it could be white flies or powdery mildew. White flies can be dealt with using a plant safe pesticide and by mixing some diatomaceous earth and/or neem oil on into your growing medium. I'm not sure what works with powdery mildew, but I'm sure there are more than a few threads which cover that. Good luck!
 

desert girl

New Member
Hey everyone. I want to thank each of you for your thoughts, suggestions, and links to great info. Here is what I did. I gave her a really good misting til she was totally covered in Safer insect killing soap. I did this right before lights out. In fact I did that the day I posted. Then yesterday I removed the most affected areas. In all I cut the first leaf affected fan leaf. I actually.ended up removing 2 fan leaves. I cut their stems right next to the new growth. Then I cut the tips of 3 leaves. Today I rinsed it good and covered her in the milk mixture. I also became suspicious of some wood we had used to create a wall so I used up my safer soap saturating the wood. Gave her room a good bleach bath so now we wait.and see. I will keep you updated on her progress. Thanks again for your help.
 

desert girl

New Member
Pineapple is still growing strong. I used the safer soap spray then I rinsed her leaves really well a couple days later and sprayed her with the milk mix suggested for mildew. Her Ph is steady at 6.5 her lights are good and she continues to put on new healthy greenery, I sure appreciate y'all getting me thru a stressful time,
 
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