Weird Golden Powder appearing on New Growth

GrandonB

GrandonB

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Hello all, I'm relatively new to the growing community and I have been vegging two plants (Purple Chem and Aurora Indica) for about two months now. The entire time has been great and my plants looked healthy until just recently the new growth on the Aurora started displaying an odd golden powder appearing on two newly sprouted chutes. I've examined the golden powder with a jewelers eye and there doesn't appear to be any movement. With the naked eye it appears like someone powdered them with golden powder, I've been searching all sorts of websites and have found nothing relating to my issue. I need some help guys
 
GrandonB

GrandonB

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No I do not. The plants are in 3 gal pots with soil and I water them conventionally. Someone offered the idea that it was dried nutrients from foliar feeding, is that is what you are getting at?
 
Dr.StickyFingers

Dr.StickyFingers

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So its only a part of the plant? I heard about something like this outdoors before and they figured out it was pollen (not necessarily from a male cannabis)... or its unicorn fart
 
GrandonB

GrandonB

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Dr.StickyFingers said:
So its only a part of the plant? I heard about something like this outdoors before and they figured out it was pollen (not necessarily from a male cannabis)... or its unicorn fart
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Haha, yeah it's only on three lower chutes of the plant, I'm worried that it might be thrips. Can pollen be present in vegging? or is this a unique characteristic to the aurora strain?
 
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dirtpower

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You have yourself a hermi there and the yellow powder is the pollen from the male flowers...time to yank that plant.
 
Jimmy Sparkle

Jimmy Sparkle

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You have a male flower pod right there in your picture. Not the best picture but to my tired eyes thats pollen... You WILL have seeds...
 
GrandonB

GrandonB

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Jimmy Sparkle said:
You have a male flower pod right there in your picture. Not the best picture but to my tired eyes thats pollen... You WILL have seeds...
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That's not my plant, that's one I found that resembles it on the internet. I'll post a pic in a second when I get home from work
 
GrandonB

GrandonB

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Jimmy Sparkle said:
You have a male flower pod right there in your picture. Not the best picture but to my tired eyes thats pollen... You WILL have seeds...
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I've had the plants in 24 hour lighting for the vegging and I cut away an infected branch and now the powder has collected around where I cut away the branch, if this helps anything
 
Dr.StickyFingers

Dr.StickyFingers

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GrandonB said:
Haha, yeah it's only on three lower chutes of the plant, I'm worried that it might be thrips. Can pollen be present in vegging? or is this a unique characteristic to the aurora strain?
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We would need actual pictures of your plant but yea thats what I'd suspect if its not moving.
 
GrandonB

GrandonB

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here it is guys, the invasion of thrips. The mother burrows into the plant tissue (often into wounds or recently pruned areas of the plants) and lays her eggs so they can begin consuming the nutrition being sent there. It looks like keef but when you get closer it's a bunch of squirming little shits
 
Dr.StickyFingers

Dr.StickyFingers

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GrandonB said:
They were moving, I did some research and identified the problem as thrips. Shook the plant out and started spraying immediately
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Ah in your OP it said they werent moving. that would have cleared things up from the beginning. You'll see thrips congregating mainly on new growth. Spray em dead
 
GrandonB

GrandonB

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Dr.StickyFingers said:
Ah in your OP it said they werent moving. that would have cleared things up from the beginning. You'll see thrips congregating mainly on new growth. Spray em dead
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Yeah, sorry about the confusion. When I originally looked I was using a pretty cheap jewelers eye, my friend let me use his nicer one and I was able to see the little bastards moving. Thanks for the help though, really appreciate it especially as a new guy whose just learning the ropes. Any advice or recommendations on spray? and is my plant gonna be good?
 
Dr.StickyFingers

Dr.StickyFingers

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GrandonB said:
Yeah, sorry about the confusion. When I originally looked I was using a pretty cheap jewelers eye, my friend let me use his nicer one and I was able to see the little bastards moving. Thanks for the help though, really appreciate it especially as a new guy whose just learning the ropes. Any advice or recommendations on spray? and is my plant gonna be good?
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Dont mention thats what this place is for :D

Like LB said you can use spinosad. Or if you already have neem oil you can use that but you need to apply it numerous times to make sure they're suffocated and dead. I'm assuming you don't have adults flying around yet... I suggest you take care of it before you get adults because once you do each sucker can lay close to 100 eggs in your leaves and it gets way harder... o_O I used neem oil with an all natural dish soap sprayed down all infected areas heavily and they were dead within like 3 or 4 applications. Pryrethrum sprays work too

You caught it pretty early so your girls are gonna be good just make sure they are good and gone!
 
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Diabolical666

Diabolical666

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Right about now you wish you had thrips....because you actually have rust mites a.k.a. bud mites. Rust is what they leave behind (mite shit). I have had these, they are the worst of all pest infestations of the cannabis. They can be seen at 30x- 60x magnification. Spinosad wont kill these
 
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