They are 2-spotted spider mites... and they just laid a shitload of eggs. Throw those clones away and start from seed or get new clones from someone with better hygiene.Can anyone tell me what I might be dealing with here? The 1st picture looks like a darn squid to me!
I have been reading good things about azatrol. Ill have to see if my local garden store has any. Ill update tomorrow. I have the 2 infested plants in the bath tub where its about 60degrees. Hopefully this will buy me a night.Getting rid of mites on clones is easier than on a large plant I think (I just went threw all that). Use a product called Azatrol, it not only kills them but makes it so they dont want to eat the plant anymore. Make a mild solution and submerge the clones, medium and all into the solution and leave them completely underwater for about 3-4 minutes, I had about 10 cuttings that had mites so bad they were covered in webs, I did that to them and never saw another bug, they are all growing happily now and the azatrol dip didnt seem to hurt them at all (the clone that is, of course it hurt the bugs.)
I definitely agree with Serialkiller ... . Azatrol kicks mite ass. Its expensive though about $70/bottle.I have been reading good things about azatrol. Ill have to see if my local garden store has any. Ill update tomorrow. I have the 2 infested plants in the bath tub where its about 60degrees. Hopefully this will buy me a night.
Thanks sir.
lil ass clones can be sprayed with soap water maybe some neem oil mixed. No matter whats used it should be simple to deal with at this stage as there will be no mold issues like flowering plants. Cam drench them well, if you dont want to mix your own soap mix home depot sells insecticide soap for like 4 bucks. Just keep an eye on them as you will probably have to hit them several times to make sure you good and keep them away from other plants until you get rid of them. They are pain in the ass once floweringthose are 2 spotted spider mite larva spray the mothers and reclone if possible you can spray the clones but I've had mixed results doing this (endall 2/einstien oil) much safer to cure mom and proceed from there good luck
Yah its easy to get a good coating on by just running your hand from the bottom up holding the leafs upwards while giving the undersides a goood spraying and then when you let the leaves drop back down its easy to spray from the top downOh yeah....I agree with super2200, that spraying would be a better idea for unrooted clones. Dipping them is likely to screw up the rooting process, because they'll be moving around in the medium. Not a good idea.