White Specks on Leaf Surface?

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Hey, im new here, i apologize for my first post being asking for help on a problem but im sure its quite common

I'm currently growing one plant, so i gotta make sure it works (hopefully wont be a hermy) i have 4 pictures of white specks on my leaf surface
Id like to know if anyone is familiar with these?

Picture 1 : to the naked eye healthy looking leaf
Picture 2: starting to see white specks
Picture 3: seeing microscopic damage to leaf surface, rusty spots etc...
Picture 4: close up of white specks

I'm hoping these are bite marks & not mould, hoping for bite marks i know sounds a bit nuts, but i dont want mould!

I checked for spider mites with 10x 30x & 60x under leaves, but i could not make out any legs or movement on the black dots, i did however find a larva of some sort, it was orange & blatantly a larvae, i also found a yellowish egg, i sprayed all over with pest off 3 times over 2 days...

Thanks for any help given

Peace


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Looks like thrips. Get Spinosad.
I used pest off it says on the backit works on thrips...the place i bought it from says its very effective, although it says take infected leaves off?
Im not sure i wanna do that as the leaves aren't THAT infected, i heard somewhere else only take leaves off if they are 50% or more damaged
 

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Can anyone else identify whats going on with my plant please?

The white dots have spread a bit, im just gonna keep using pest off... still cant see any spider mites moving but seen a few more eggs around
 

Shrubs First

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Azamax is a great organic pesticide, all of your sprays are pretty ineffective
unless your plants are very small, it is nearly impossible to spray down the
ENTIRE surface of EACH plant.

Azamax is a systemic feed, which means it is absorbed as if it were a nutrient,
and then distributed to all of the cells throughout the plant, if any bug eats
the plant, it ingests the Azamax, and obviously doesn't like it.
 

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Thanks Shrubs, isit okay to use Azamax in organic soils though?

Do yu use it to just foliar feed or do you add to your nute mix?

Im gonna order some but i dont live in the US so i wont get it until the new year...

My plants are still young, in their 4th week, they lookhealthy, its just when you get close you see a few yellow spots and these tiny white specks...
 

ieatglue88

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well it seems like you know its a bug issue id cover the top of your soil with something to try and stop breeding
 
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