not so tiny red fuckers, mold covered white bug with wings killed by hand

Ok so my lsd 25 has been showing weird spots. Leaves are damaged or have holes and yellow spotting also a few rusty spotting.
Then i saw a small bug that had long front legs and was red. But not bright red. I killed it. Then i saw another and another and another. I killed roughly 20 per plant. Many i.could feel pop and they burst with orange sap. Some were spotted but all had the extended frontal legs. I was certain they were spider mites. But the spider mites ive seen on the internet are a little too small...
These are about one mm big about 5 or 10 of those tiny spider mites in one.
They seemed to like the trunk the most.

Then i saw this about 1cm white thing up by one of my 2week old buds and bumped it and it jumped/flew away

Then i saw down by a bud.site a ball of mold i touched it and the same thing happened only it left a mold outline on the stem of the leaf so i ripped the leaf off.
I killed every one of the red bugs and one of 3

Using ffhf mixed with perlite
ph is 6.3
Temp 70-85

Rusty spots (only on this leaf)

Yellow spotting (on about 10 or 12 leaves)
Chewed leaves?
The culprit!
(Couldnt find anymore of the white ones)



Also if anyone knows why my leaves are curving unward??? Like reverse heat stress? Only on this plant.

That pic with the bug in it, was taken on a bathroom sink. U can see the rim in the corners of the picture. That should give you a good idea on its general size and you can see the holes and chewed leaves in the pictures of its cola. The more purple one is from today but u can really see the holes in the greener pic. And the chunks missing in the more purple pic.
No cataplillars

Also that was supposed to say inward not unward. It wont let me edit it without loosing the pictures

Purple / weak steams looks like cal mag deff.....

714steadyeddie said:

Purple / weak steams looks like cal mag deff.....

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I use tap water. I have some cal mag that ive never used. But its a purple strain and all the stems are thick.

Home Depot has these pest strips (hot shot brand) that you can hang in your grow area. If you can when lights off leave it in there with the least ventilation and circulation as possible. Repeat 3x to kill offspring


Also out up yellow sticky traps. Make sure where you're vents are there's a filter of some sort.

I had a pest problem to but luckily I was still im veg...

714steadyeddie said:

Home Depot has these pest strips (hot shot brand) that you can hang in your grow area. If you can when lights off leave it in there with the least ventilation and circulation as possible. Repeat 3x to kill offspring


Also out up yellow sticky traps. Make sure where you're vents are there's a filter of some sort.

I had a pest problem to but luckily I was still im veg...

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These tiny bugs dont fly... The white ones jump.but i dont think they have wings... Dude they are crazy looking. Alien looking. Ever seen a mold covered bug in a science book? They looked just like that.
So if none if my bugs fly would sticky traps still be effective?
Maybe flat ones i could place on soil

Heres a group shot
Left: think big
Top: lsd-25
Right: green crack
Bottom: young c4 matic.
I found the bugs on all but c4.
But the otheres arent having as much of a leaf issue.
But i am currently recovering feom nitrogen tox. I forgot to mention that.

Theres a 600w Mh above them
Switching to hps soon so i.need to fix this now.
May have to buy ladybugs
But as you can see the others are generally happy

That last pic was supposed to be a full image. Its the best pic ive gotten of the bugs so far.

Looks like a mealybug to me.

I had some like that before, I stopped taking plants out of tent after .

714steadyeddie said:

Home Depot has these pest strips (hot shot brand) that you can hang in your grow area. If you can when lights off leave it in there with the least ventilation and circulation as possible. Repeat 3x to kill offspring


Also out up yellow sticky traps. Make sure where you're vents are there's a filter of some sort.

I had a pest problem to but luckily I was still im veg...

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I think he's in flower, wouldn't do that while in flower.

Can you get close up of the bugs? Also what's your ph level? Where did it start?

Also check under the leaves any black specs?

Uncle Ben said:

Looks like a mealybug to me.

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Thanks for the quick response uncle ben
The mealy bug... i googled it and that looks like the white bug i encountered. Do mealybugs jump or fly?
The other bug is still unconfirmed and i havent seen either since i increased airflow with an oscillating fan. Although i have a weird flakey spot by where one of my fan leaves and main cola its titled weird stem a few posts up. Have u ever seen a cannabis worm? Is this what it looks like from the outside?

kachiga said:

I had some like that before, I stopped taking plants out of tent after .



I think he's in flower, wouldn't do that while in flower.

Can you get close up of the bugs? Also what's your ph level? Where did it start?

Also check under the leaves any black specs?

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Yeah these plants just come in from outdoors right before infestation... lol we probably had the same bug.

Soil after recent flush has a ph value of 6.4-6.5 and ppm of only 630 mainly bloom nutes and i added cal mag even tho im watering from tap at a base ppm of about 144 just to see if it did anything.

No black specs Anywhere
Only.spotting

I belive whats causing my leaves to curl Under is wind burn... like in this picture

I regularly use diatomaceous earth for pest control. Food grade available at health food stores. Kills most pests

If it's cool a spray of dormant oil would work. You most likely will need to add a surfactant to it too. Don't know much about mealybugs. Never had to deal with them.

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If it's cool a spray of dormant oil would work. You most likely will need to add a surfactant to it too. Don't know much about mealybugs. Never had to deal with them.

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What about the curled leaves? Is that wind burn?

The bugs are gone

BionicΩChronic said:

The bugs are gone

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good to hear they're gone but to be safe u should leech them in a week or so wth ph'd water thts had a bit of dish wash liquid added to it this will ensure they stay gone. good luck like the look of those purple buds alot of potential

northside novis said:

good to hear they're gone but to be safe u should leech them in a week or so wth ph'd water thts had a bit of dish wash liquid added to it this will ensure they stay gone. good luck like the look of those purple buds alot of potential

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Thanks man. They get prettier each day