Hey guys, this is my second run in my new flower room, first run went great! That being said about 2 weeks after putting them in the flower room I noticed a plant that was looking rather unhealthy. It was super yellow looking in the center of the new growth and started tacoing and just looking all around kinda rough. At first I chalked it up to light burn (those HLG550’s that I got 20 percent off after mentioning DGC ARE POWERFUL!) Dialed the lights back to 50 percent and all plants started improving except 2. I scoped some leaves and couldn’t find anything but I kept them in veg to try and identify the problem before flowering. Today however, I scoped again just to be sure and found a creepy crawler. The symptoms don’t seem to match the bug in any forums online leaving me confused. So I turn to the old faithful DGC crew, anybody know what this is, ways to treat it and keep it away. Thank you all so much in advance.
Looks like russet mite damage to me. They are nasty little fuckers, currently dealing with a commercial facility that has them. They are extremely hard to get rid of. I might even suggest culling all plants you have going now and starting over. After you cull the plants spray your whole tent or room with Key To Life: Silver Bullet. Then going back and hitting it with Greencleaner or Nukem. After you spray those I would even wait a week to start plants again. To top it off wash all clothes you wore while being in your grow area.
What a heart break. I really didn’t wanna have to do it. I have seedlings going in a different room right now, the seeds cost me over a thousand bucks and I was hoping to do a pheno hunt with them. You think if I start a solid ipm on them now and keep it going for a few weeks I can keep the seedlings?
Broad or russet. Here’s a little guide.
https://www.growweedeasy.com/cannabis-plant-problems/broad-mites
https://www.growweedeasy.com/cannabis-plant-problems/hemp-russet-mites
The damage appears to be russet mite damage. They are difficult to fight but it can be done. If your plants are in flowering, its too late in my opinion. But you can save
Moms and veg plants by consistently treating the plants and using multiple plans of attack. The article that Just
Posted is good but has some fallacies in it. The best source for these questions in Suzanne the bug lady. She is an entomologist and an expert who works with hundreds of cannabis growers. Watch this and she will go into what is false about that article and do what she says, it works. I got rid of them.
https://youtu.be/ppuTAZGBuGU
The picture is kinda hard to see but that isn’t a russet mite, could be a broad mite but definitely not a russet. Wettable sulfur if you’re not in flower.
Sure, there is a possibility that you could treat these plants and win, but by the time you treat and they recover it will be as long or longer than starting over with strong new stock with no guarantee of being bug free . Bite the bullet now and don’t take chances.
I think his prob is he just planted 1k dollars worth of seeds. He don’t wanna loose the seedlings. I have never had these bastards and don’t want them, spider mites are bad enough.
This was featured on EP 995. Thanks for the post!