What the Hell is This Mites?

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ceeconst

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ok


i just got home ad had another check i have found something moving about on the underside of the leaf not sure what it is but some kind of pest..... what shall i do ?
 
meezy4tw

meezy4tw

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lime73 said:
looks like thrip damage?...check with a scope or magnify-glass, look under leaves too, for little lice looking bugs, clear/tan color...might even see tiny black dots too(poop)....check really closely cuz they are very tiny.
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Thrips. I just got rid of some myself. I use azamax.


 
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ceeconst

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>:(>:(>:( ....are these thigns hard to get rid of......can i use something in the house to spray them.....i.e soapy water or something?

and how do you get thrips etc
 
meezy4tw

meezy4tw

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ceeconst said:
>:(>:(>:( ....are these thigns hard to get rid of......can i use something in the house to spray them.....i.e soapy water or something?

and how do you get thrips etc
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I would just go to lowes or home depot, or any other garden center a bottle of neem is your cheapest and best bet it'll only cost you around 7 or 8 bucks, and you use 2 tblsp's per gallon of water and spray away.
The most common way of getting them is probably from clones with a previous thrip infestation. if you started from seed and got them then chances are that they were brought into the area via clothing or animal, they could also find their way on their own too. Its the same for spidermites, they can be easily transfered from plant to plant without even knowing.
 
SCCA

SCCA

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thrips come in from outdoors. they are fairly easy to kill, just make sure to spray regularly for about two weeks.
 
dbkick

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303 said:
Are you kidding? If you've had mites before you know the pictures shown are clearly mite damage. You certainly don't need a microscope to spot mites.
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Yeah ok, what the fuck was I thinking? a scope has no place in growing weed.
 
SCCA

SCCA

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that depends on your temps and humidity, mites reproduce faster at higher temps with low humidity and slower at low temps with high humidity. your job is to interrupt their reproductive cycle, which is 2-3 days. i usually spray every other day, if i notice build up on the leaves ill give them a rinse with plain water. dont worry about mosquito dunks unless you get a very bad infestation.
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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Covering the pots the plants are planted in is a good long term idea for thrips, although it won't imediatly decrease the thrips like neem oil it will gradually bring their numbers down over time and stop you getting them in the first place. Thrips lay eggs in leaves, these drop into soil, cover the soil and stop their breeding cycle. Do not cover the soil so that no air can get in as this could be bad, just loosely with a paper plate or somthing, this is a good preventitive and long term control method. If you only have a small indoor garden then you can pick them off youself to keep numbers down till other methods start to be effective. Sometimes it is hard to get rid of thrips and many people with large gardens and commercial operations never manage to totally eliminate them from the garden merely keep the population numbers down so that damage is at a minimun. Ladybirds is a good idea if you can find some in the local bushes, collect a load and let them loose on your plants, will fly off after a few days but not before eating a lot of thrips. Just a few ideas also i never heard of thrips being dangerous in the soil allthough i believe some varieties eat the roots but none that you normally get, should be fine in the soil, its when they get on your plants they start the damage. Good luck with the neem.
 
sparkafire

sparkafire

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dannyboy602 said:
I had similar symptoms on plants in a grow recently. It looked like stippling, which is mite damage, but turned out to be a genetic defect presenting as damage. From either mites or a nute deficit. I see different symptoms on plants that are all treated the same and in a controlled grow. Nute deficiencies should all show up on all 13 plants I grow, not one or two. I think a lot of the reason we see probs with plants is breeders fuckups that go into their product. Active mites are ez to see under leaf surfaces. They leave little white spots and the damage is unmistakeable. But anyway I just wanted to add my two cents....as I sit here smokin some sour D...lol
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This is good info :)
 
sparkafire

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ceeconst

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hi sparkafire......thanks for your keen intrest to help....the lights are of atm and i will post more pics later.....i did a little check on one of the leaves and some insects fell off...so def got some kind of pest i think it thrips.......(little wiggling things)

also i just bought a co2 booster :) running it 15 mins every hour whilst the lights are on ( pump for co2 comes on 2 hours after light on and 2 hours before the lights go out)

so basically the co2 pump is on for 15 mins 9 times within the 12 hour light cycle
 
sparkafire

sparkafire

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No worries man just don't want you to spray unless you have too but it sounds like you do now anyway. Lets see the pics when you have a chance.
 
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