Bugs, disease, mold or fungus?

Can anone tell me what all these little white spots are? The nute deficiency is being dealt with so please, just the spots...

looks like bugs to me

OK, what kind? should I be worried?

At first glance with those pics I'd say it looks like some bug. Get a magnifying glass and check it out, also look closely at the back side of the leaves.

Any idea what kind? I really tried Youtube and to look around here but the Plant Problems Sticky got no pics no more, just error icons...

Man freaking busy day! OK... I will and have been doing so sometimes I have rubbed off from underside of the leaf cuz I THOUGHT I seen something but actually most times it is nothing I can see. Working on getting a magnifying glass or loupe (waiting on a txt...) and will throw up the best pics I can of top and bottoms of affected leaves.

WolfieLee said:

Any idea what kind? I really tried Youtube and to look around here but the Plant Problems Sticky got no pics no more, just error icons...

Man freaking busy day! OK... I will and have been doing so sometimes I have rubbed off from underside of the leaf cuz I THOUGHT I seen something but actually most times it is nothing I can see. Working on getting a magnifying glass or loupe (waiting on a txt...) and will throw up the best pics I can of top and bottoms of affected leaves.

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Not gonna lie mate but spider mites do that type of damage. Hard to miss them though but it's possible.

Ok, confirmed. BUGS!! Quarentined outdoors. All other plants carefully inspected. Advice? The eggs (sacks?) are nearly white, with the slightest shade of yellow... Anyone know WHAT kind of critters these are (besides the kind that need to DIE)

Pictures (circled one, the rest all have black dots very close to each egg/sack I could find in the poor Q picture)

StoneyMcphatter said:

Not gonna lie mate...

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And I wouldn't want ya to.

StoneyMcphatter said:

but spider mites do that type of damage. Hard to miss them though but it's possible.

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yeah, I caught/stopped an infestation VERY early at the start (outside @ that time) and have really been thorough (or so I thought) with daily photo and naked eye inspections...I just didn't realize little webs was not the only thing to look for.... lol all I had to do the first time was to squish a little tent and rub the undersides of the affected leaves (of which there were maybe 8 to 10)...wish I had it that easy this time)

WolfieLee said:

And I wouldn't want ya to.



yeah, I caught/stopped an infestation VERY early at the start (outside @ that time) and have really been thorough (or so I thought) with daily photo and naked eye inspections...I just didn't realize little webs was not the only thing to look for.... lol all I had to do the first time was to squish a little tent and rub the undersides of the affected leaves (of which there were maybe 8 to 10)...wish I had it that easy this time)

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The webbing actually comes when the infestation is really bad. That's usually the point of no return and at that point many growers will just scrap the grow and start anew. But you do have a fight on your hands since yer in flower if its confirmed that its spider mites.

Right...as I said there were max 10 leaves then...pretty easy to do at that point

Gonna start the RUBDOWN of the noticeably infected leaves soon as I log off. Getting some pure garlic oil as a deterrent (Thanks, @Skillzd!) and clean out the room and spray that down as well and all plants...

Please any other suggestion are more than appreciated...

I have successfully used longipes (predators) to clean up remnants of spider mites. But more than 3 weeks in flower, it is unlikely that they'll do it.

Some people use nuke em and green clean on flowering plants. Largely harmless but the humidity of spraying is dangerous. I prefer the predators but i introduce them early. Their cycle is insurance.

By the way, those sure look like bites of two-spotted mites. I think the black dot on the top pic is a mite.

WOW I thought I posted this yesterday, but I didn't actually hit the post button!

here it is:

Well, after 3 painstaking inspections yesterday, I found another plant affected!
Fruit Punch is also infested, however...just about anyone could have missed this no matter how closely they looked. I was actually done looking at frt punch when I happened to be looking back to it and then seeing one leaf with maybe 2-3 little spots on it and flipped it to just find one egg. So both plants are Qtined outside and have been BLATED with the hose at close range, and I will be using Mighty Wash as a dunk for all plants as a precautionary (and I'm TIRED of looking through these plants every three hrs. cuz f panic)...They all get dunked tomorrow...

I have never used mighty wash. Even drenching them in water in flower can cause gnarly stuff; make sure that they dry well, it would totally suck to fight a few mites aggressively by so saturating the buds that they rot.

Now, the million dollar question, how'd you get them? Once in flower, without any "guards" in place, if the vector is not removed, then the problem just gets harder. Heck, even with the guards in place, the size of the vector matters. I put in a paint suit before walking into the indoor garden and mites still find a way in with the biggest fan blowing toward the door from the inside (like the grocery store), blow tourists back out the door.... It has worked in Oregon, where spider mites are more plentiful than weed. And the right rh for flowering makes them explode.

oh they will be hovered over for sure...anyway, just got doen treating the two known to have bugs with the spray...dunking just was not a viable option. Tuned the lights off after throwing them back inside, and will take the others out for a lighter, precautionary treatment only and they will have a good 8 hrs in dark with the fan ocilating on HIGH, and I will blast them all with the hose in the am to rinse everything away and I always VIGOROUSLY shake any soaked plant 2 to 3, even 4 times in as many hours to keep ahead of any lingering bud moisture on drenched plants....

Got them no doubt because these actually started outside...whole story is in current grow link in signature here at the bottom under this post...

Thanks for the tip and your concern....

JaneSays95 said:

By the way, those sure look like bites of two-spotted mites. I think the black dot on the top pic is a mite.

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Well, the Mighty Wash will still get rid of them and that is my only concern at this point now that the initial panic attack has passed lol. It WILL get rid of them, right?

So I hear. I know that nuke em works and is fairly benign, though I'm not sure how well it does eggs. I have used green cleaner effectively and it claims all stages. All of those claim to be useable to day of harvest. Given the ingredients, they should be.

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So I hear. I know that nuke em works and is fairly benign, though I'm not sure how well it does eggs. I have used green cleaner effectively and it claims all stages. All of those claim to be useable to day of harvest. Given the ingredients, they should be.

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Yes, the Mighty Wash does claim all stages as well, and at least three posts say One treatment with it is sufficient. Since it was not a dunk I will do all plants once more in a week and the two confirmed cases once more again a week later. Already in the process of cleaning, sanitizing and then will treat all surfaces with the Mighty wash and clean and sanitize again. I am taking NO chances with what is really my first harvest with any substantial harvest....