jimcz
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Almost all leaves of my 3 young plants have small yellow dots and some of them (bottom ones) are all yellow. I've measured about 60 000Lux on the top leaves. Is it too much?
Yellow dots on leaves = too much light? Some leaves bleached..
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Jenny 209916
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Those dots should be spider mites. Look very closely under your leafs do you see any bugs?
jimcz
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Wow! It looks like you're right. I found some rust-coloured creatures. Very small. How can I get rid of them? Is it bad for the plants to host them?
debo1987
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Firstly yes it is very bad for the plants. The spider mites strip the leaves of the cylorifil (spellings wrong there). They get absolutely everywhere lights, light leads every nock and crevice there is they hide absolutely bastards. Luckily uve got them early on. So this shall be easy as apossed to getting then while in flower . U need a spider mite solution local growshop will have this soapy stuff usuall kills them . Ull need to Spray plants and the pots obvs when lights are off to save burning plants . Then spray the intire grow space top to bottom then repeat again a few days later with a stronger dilution to ensure u got em all and hopefully ull be good to go again. Good luck dude
Cobnobuler
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You ask this question and leave out the information that matters. What does the medium consist of ? What have you been feeding them up till now ?
Yep, if theyre rust colored little bastard thats them. Mighty Wash takes no prisoners.
Yep, if theyre rust colored little bastard thats them. Mighty Wash takes no prisoners.
SPLFreak808
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The plant got mites and N deficiency. Cobnob knows whatsup, mighty wash will melt those bastards dry
R&RHashman
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you could also buy some hot peppers(I grow mine) like habanero type hot. cut em up boil them in a pot of water for a while. strain and use the liquid as a spray. kills the little buggers. just google it.
I love u it worked
R&RHashman
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you are very welcome. beware of residual pepper on everything as it burns really bad in eyes nose and I imagine elsewhere 
bryan oconner
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good advice above . also wash them under water . they are in veg plants will love a wash 80f water . wash them for 2 weeks straight and use preventives . you DONT want thse bugs in flower .
GreenLogician
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That's a heck of a scrub!
bryan oconner
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I don't mess around
THE KONASSURE
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next time put a layer of perlite ontop of your soil, it stops bugs laying eggs and such down there
also perlite in the bottom of the pot stops rot and makes transplanting easier
I try and spray and water at least once during veg for buds and rot even if the plants looks 100% fine easier to treat a small plant then to deal with a bush that`s flowering
also perlite in the bottom of the pot stops rot and makes transplanting easier
I try and spray and water at least once during veg for buds and rot even if the plants looks 100% fine easier to treat a small plant then to deal with a bush that`s flowering
GreenLogician
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I've used coarse perlite for that, the fungus gnats seemed to crawl straight through it.
The Konassure, do you use fine perlite for that?
Better than perlite for this job is diatomaceous Earth, which wont just create a barrier layer, but it's an active non-chemical pesticide, cutting up any critters that touch it.
However my pack of DE is particularly fine, flowery powder. I'm concerned it will wash away from the surface if I give that a go with it.
I think fine perlite would be better than coarse perlite, since they couldn't crawl through it as easily -- but it might wash away.
I think coarse DE would probably be better than fine DE, since it wont wash away, and if they try to crawl through it they will die of microcuts.
The Konassure, do you use fine perlite for that?
Better than perlite for this job is diatomaceous Earth, which wont just create a barrier layer, but it's an active non-chemical pesticide, cutting up any critters that touch it.
However my pack of DE is particularly fine, flowery powder. I'm concerned it will wash away from the surface if I give that a go with it.
I think fine perlite would be better than coarse perlite, since they couldn't crawl through it as easily -- but it might wash away.
I think coarse DE would probably be better than fine DE, since it wont wash away, and if they try to crawl through it they will die of microcuts.
bryan oconner
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perlite does not stop spy mites . the eggs are on the leafs . kill the mites and eggs hatch and they lay some thing like a million eggs in days . i had them once and the amount of work i had to invest to keep them under control was many hours a day all plants were week 5 flower and the dehumidifier killed the electric bill . i had t give a bath to all plants by hand move the pots wash then apply spray . and do this every other day fuckers came right back only could slow them down keep them from totally fucking me by forming a web . i spent hundreds of bucks and many miserable hours of hard pain in the ass work to save my ass ! next summer i had a shower installed i got undressed walked in showered then redress new washed clothes to go into the room i set it up like a lab except i dont put on those chemical suites lol . ............................. all this to save these cherry tomatoes lmfao . to stupid to spend 99 c at the store rather drop thousands to get them as fresh as possible .
