broad mite eggs microscope pic 100x scope

Broad mites or not?


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Mooobaby

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View attachment 2872417IMG_20131027_063035.jpgIMG_20131027_062428.jpgIMG_20131027_062848.jpgIMG_20131027_062858.jpgIMG_20131011_202610.jpgOK everyone I am getting some weird coloration on leaves. Weird non uniform leaves. Few necrotic spots. Leaves yellowing from the center out in blotchy areas from the bottom up. Buts are growing OK but noticed brown pistols starting in week 3. Which seems to have recovered slightly since putting out no pest strip. Anyway managed to get some pics through the scope. Are these eggs? Found no hung crawling but saw these opaque orbs that look like trichrome heads without a stem like a normal one. Eggs or not?
 

smoke and coke

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i have had weird discoloration like that and was not from mites. i am not exactly sure what the cause is, but when i had the problem it was during low humidity in veg.
 

Mooobaby

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Yeah my humidity is in the 30s and I have no ability to raise it without humidifying a huge building... Not yet anyway.
 

chairroller

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If they are eggs like you think, a water flushing must put away the majority of it ! Did you try it ?
Isn't it a start of white mold ?
 

D619

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If they are broad mites , and since you said it's a big building, meaning a sizable garden, I highly suggest you start some serious research " Now "Broad Mites will devastate your entire crop. Even if you do eradicate them, Broad Mite leaves a toxin that turns your plants into duds. Avid, forbid and Plylon with Indicate 5. In rotation. Never use a single application approach. Broad Mites are a growing problem and anyone who values cannibis better start learning " real methods " of treatment, cause Neem Oil or a water wash isn't going to do it. And since your grow area is to big to raise your humidity I'm pretty sure you won't be able to heat the area up to 120 degrees for over an hour.
 

Mooobaby

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Very small grow just happens to be in a big building. Slightly higher humidity, addition of cal-mag, drop feed pH from 6.3 to 5.8, addition of super thrive, fungus gnat treatment with BTi, top dress with light cinnamon sprinkle and addition of healthy dose of root enhancer and hygrozyme fixed it up. Got a whopping 2 zips. Got schooled from a low humidity first time coco run

PS. Did a slurry test with coco from the brick, GH brand, 2000ppm salt in that shit! Looks like my babies were going through a lot more than I thought. Vaporizer samplenugs knocked me on my ass. Kalashnikova looked like it was going to put out but iono..hard to say with so much trouble.
 

lexalotacus

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I have the exact same thing.. same little cloudy round egg looking things.. like a smaller version of the tip of a trichome.. All I know is it isn't spider mites/eggs and isnt broad mite eggs as they are very distinct. They look VERY much like swirskii mite eggs but alas I have no swirskii mites. I've been researching broad mites for at least 4 months now and basically there is no way to get rid of them without using cancerous disgusting chemicals. If these are found with certainty, try to salvage your present crop and when it's done toss EVERYTHING and bleach/spray/wipe down your entire everything.. That's the only option. Sucks.
 

D619

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I have the exact same thing.. same little cloudy round egg looking things.. like a smaller version of the tip of a trichome.. All I know is it isn't spider mites/eggs and isnt broad mite eggs as they are very distinct. They look VERY much like swirskii mite eggs but alas I have no swirskii mites. I've been researching broad mites for at least 4 months now and basically there is no way to get rid of them without using cancerous disgusting chemicals. If these are found with certainty, try to salvage your present crop and when it's done toss EVERYTHING and bleach/spray/wipe down your entire everything.. That's the only option. Sucks.
Yeah, Avid, forbid and etc. is some nasty shit. I suited up and rapped plastic bags over me and a mask. I didn't spray , just use a bucket and dunk my plants to get full coverage. Leave the room come back 12 hours later. I prefer to dunk over spraying. Seems safer to me. Fill a bucket with a gallon of distilled water , add 1.5 ml of avid and forbid. Then add indicate 5 until you get the proper PH. I grow in hempy buckets, I then get aluminum foil place over pot and duct tape it so when I flip them the soil or plant doesn't fall out. Do this at lights on, not off. Repeat 1 week later then follow up with tripple action neem by southern ag. Half life on Avid or Forbid is not more than 50 days I believe. So only use a week or 2 prior to flip. Tripple action can be used half way through flower if need be. When using any type of chemicals to treat plants it's important to research the product and follow directions. Do your own thorough research , and then make a educated decision on what course of action you will take based on facts, as Storm Shadow would say" not on bro-science."
 
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