PLEASE HELP. WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY FLOWERS! Same age, same nutrients.

So during veg I used Fox Farms Grow big, that's it. Then Starting at week 2 of flowering I have begun using this list of nutrients, I will show you. Now one plant of the 5 has the majority of the flowering issues, but they all have a branch or two with flowers that seem to be maturing too fast. I don't know how to describe it, like the hairs are turning orange too quickly on some buds, while others are white like they should be at this stage. There is a picture where the same branch has a bud with white and a bud with burnt orange. almost as if I left them on until week 11 or something and the trichomes have started to decay.

Oh I know my SCrog is messed up, my plants grew WAY taller than I planned on with my wood stakes, so it is what it is. This was my first year trying SCrog. I also know I have way too much foliage but I am in school and didn't keep up with it more than lollipoping and then two rounds of pruning.

Can anyone tell me why this is happening so early? I am maybe in week 4 of flower and here outdoor in colorado they go into week 10.

I'd say they all seem healthy to me

TropiKanna said:

I'd say they all seem healthy to me

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Really? You don't think it's weird that one plant has most of its bud's hairs are turning orange so quickly and the rest are white? I mean I usually do't see this type of change until week 8. Hmm maybe I am overreacting.

If its not broke don't fix it... could be two different phenos of the same strain? I am running 2 Strawberry Gum autos in a tent. One is about 3.5 inches in height and 5-5.5 inches in diameter and the second is 4-4.5 inches tall and 3-3.5 inches in diameter. At first I thought one was just a slow grower but im almost certain its just a different pheno than the other which is why its growing differently

Didn't we just see this in another thread and people were calling it late stage bud rot?

Check the crystals, if those are amber then I'd say we have an issue.
Don't base it off of the hairs

RUSSET MITES. 100%.
August is russet mite season

All these areas I have circled are visible russet mites. You DO NOT need a scope to identify them, you can clearly see them in this picture.

waterproof808 said:

All these areas I have circled are visible russet mites. You DO NOT need a scope to identify them, you can clearly see them in this picture.
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Fuck! How do I get rid of them? Would they make the buds change color early?

Jpwt92 said:

Check the crystals, if those are amber then I'd say we have an issue.
Don't base it off of the hairs

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I'm going out now to check.

cody.young11 said:

Fuck! How do I get rid of them? Would they make the buds change color early?

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yes, they make your buds look brown and unsmokeable. The brown is basically thousands of little mites on top of each other, you will be shocked if you look at it with a scope. Gonna be a tough battle at this stage. You might try venerate from marronebio. I usually use sulfur dust in veg but its not recommended in flower. Good luck.

waterproof808 said:

All these areas I have circled are visible russet mites. You DO NOT need a scope to identify them, you can clearly see them in this picture.
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Holy shit good eye man. I went out with my jewelry microscope and could see them crawling around. Also, look here "A slight upward rolling along the leaf edge is a symptom hemp russet mite can produce in some hemp" is what I found. God dammit.

yep, you have all the tell-tale signs of russet mites. There are various sprays people use. I'd probably go with Venerate for a couple weeks and then order some predator insects to eat those fuckers

Here is a link for some advice as well as organic options for treating your problem.

waterproof808 said:

All these areas I have circled are visible russet mites. You DO NOT need a scope to identify them, you can clearly see them in this picture.
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You can see the curling (canoeing) of the leaves around it. They turn those young light green bud hairs brown! Their saliva kills the plant.

If they were my plants I’d break out the Green Cleaner and spray them FAST. Those fuckers are hard to wipe out. They’re always around, I don’t know what makes they explode sometimes.
I had them 3 years ago. Sprayed Green Cleaner every 3rd day for two weeks. They bought Andersoni predators. Saved most of my crop. You might consider very very carefully cutting out the worst affected areas.

waterproof808 said:

yep, you have all the tell-tale signs of russet mites. There are various sprays people use. I'd probably go with Venerate for a couple weeks and then order some predator insects to eat those fuckers

Here is a link for some advice as well as organic options for treating your problem.

How To Control Russet Mites | Integrated Pest Management

Russet Mites are extremely damaging and hard to get rid of. Arbico offers growers predatory mites, organic miticides and biocontrol products for effective russet mite control. Find out more!

www.arbico-organics.com

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Wanne see something even more crazy. Nature really does do it all. I found these also today connected to another leaf. Guess what it is after extensive research? Fucking Kadydd eggs! I bet that kadydid mom was feasting on those mites and was like good spot to lay my babies. Too bad they take 45 days to hatch my crop will be gone by then lol. I bought some Neem oil which you can spray on fruits as long as it's plenty of weeks before harvest. Basically soaked my plants. I am going buy some predator bugs too.

petert said:

You can see the curling (canoeing) of the leaves around it. They turn those young light green bud hairs brown! Their saliva kills the plant.

If they were my plants I’d break out the Green Cleaner and spray them FAST. Those fuckers are hard to wipe out. They’re always around, I don’t know what makes they explode sometimes.
I had them 3 years ago. Sprayed Green Cleaner every 3rd day for two weeks. They bought Andersoni predators. Saved most of my crop. You might consider very very carefully cutting out the worst affected areas.

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Wanne see something even more crazy. Nature really does do it all. I found these also today connected to another leaf. Guess what it is after extensive research? Fucking Kadydd eggs! I bet that kadydid mom was feasting on those mites and was like good spot to lay my babies. Too bad they take 45 days to hatch my crop will be gone by then lol. I bought some Neem oil which you can spray on fruits as long as it's plenty of weeks before harvest. Basically soaked my plants. I am going buy some predator bugs too and either green cleaner or the other stuff Waterproof mentioned.

the link I posted has a chart showing what treatments are acceptable for use in flower or not.

That is cool.

I have zero signs of hemp Russet Mites (knocking on wood). I have not sprayed anything on my plants since I cloned them. I still bought quick release Andersoni predators and will be applying next week to keep me through harvest. Andersoni eat hemp russet as well as spider mites. They’re good guys!!

Update everyone. So I've gone through one spray of neem oil back in week 2, that killed a ton of them, but then I read you don't want to spray neem oil past week 2 if not at all. So I stopped and I have been buying predatory mites. It has been a battle. I've gone through about 15,000 mites over the past month, one winter storm here in Denver where I had to build a make-shift greenhouse and I have cut out a shit load of branches too heavily infested. I have some beautiful buds coming in if my predator bugs can just hold on another few weeks. Here is what the russet mites look like magnified under a microscope. You can see the bad and the good buds. I still have like 3 more weeks