Is This Broadmite/Russet Mite Damage?

Hello everyone.

To make things short, I believe I'm infested with broad or russett mites.

When I saw these signs, (I've seen similar symptoms on a friend's crop several years ago, confirmed broad mites) I immediately suspected broad mite damage.

The leaf damage pretty quickly spread around the room, infecting leaves here and there on random plants.

I brought out the Flying Skull Nuke Em and immediately started spraying, 4.5oz/gal, once per day, every other day, with a spray of water in between days. Predictably the product dried out the leaves pretty heavily, and stressed the ladies a bit, but obviously better than broad mite damage continuing.

I have yet to see a broad mite however. My scope is on it's way from Amazon, but I haven't been able to find a thing with my 100x pocket scope.

Hoping that someone here can help validate these symptoms as being likely a mite infestation. I will be completing 2 more sprays, before introducing predatory mites and then observing closely. If anyone else has suggestions on how to deal with the issue, I'm open. I am in week 2 of flower.









Thanks in advance.

Hard to say, any pics from before you sprayed them?

Maybe russets, I don't see the broad mite damage signs at all.

Bugeye said:

Maybe russets, I don't see the broad mite damage signs at all.

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Can you forward some photos of broadmite damage, or describe it? Seems like a lot of the photos on the internet are of different things, I can't find an exact tell tale sign of BM.

BM tend to stay on one side of a leaf blade and cause it to hook dramatically to the side. Folks that think they have TMV often find the real issue to be BM. Russets will hit your leaf edges hard and cause a shiny glossy middle of the leaf that also gets described as blistered.

Bugeye said:

BM tend to stay on one side of a leaf blade and cause it to hook dramatically to the side. Folks that think they have TMV often find the real issue to be BM. Russets will hit your leaf edges hard and cause a shiny glossy middle of the leaf that also gets described as blistered.

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Is the intense hooking/clawing I'm seeing not what you're describing?

fn217 said:

Is the intense hooking/clawing I'm seeing not what you're describing?

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Nope, that could be russets, over feeding, or results of your spray. I couldn't say for sure. The tacoing is possibly russets or what you sprayed. So I was curious what they were doing before you sprayed.

odds are if you've eliminated all other possibilities (heat, PH, etc) it' could be russet mites, especially if it spread across the room... but weird you didn't find anything with your 100x scope