darkerfalz
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Hey everybody. I recently posted here awhile back asking for help on my first grow. Since then there's been quite a bit of growth on my plants, but recently have noticed a few concerning things.
I first started to notice that it looked like something was munching on my plants leaves. No matter how hard I tried though I couldn't find any pests besides the occasional what I think were fungus gnats but Ive heard that aphids look kinda like fungus gnats once theyve matured and grown wings so idk for sure.
Fast forward to yesterday, was doing some low stress training on one plant a couple days prior and the on this day Inoticed I may have bee a bit too greedy/rough with one of the plants and accidentally snapped one of the main branches at the stalk a bit. It wasn't snapped off completely, but there was a bit of an opening into main stalk and to my horror I see a small gang of VERY VERY tiny white mite looking creatures crawling from INSIDE the stalk! I panicked (and still an panicking) and inspected my other plants. The only mites I could find were outside the pots, but all plants have some chomping here and there on a few leaves.
The plants themselves look pretty okay. A bit of drooping and some leaves getting lighter but nothing crazy. One of the plants is in flower and the other too are showing pre-flowers. I am getting some twisted leaves on new growth. I know my watering schedule is working well because I have a plant in a tent downstairs that thriving.
I've done a massive amount of googling but I really couldnt determine exactly what my issue was. I narrowed it down to Aphids/Root aphids, Spider mites, broad mites, or some other form predatory mite. Ive read some mites can be beneficial, but Im new to all this so I just want to make sure I don't do anything drastic and damage my plant further.
I busted out my microscope and snagged a couple of pics. It was very hard because these mites move quite fast for their size. After examining these close though it seems to be some form of baby spider mite or broad mite? The front "antennae" looking things resemble a spider mite/broad mite the most to me as it doesnt seem aphids and from the looks of pics aphids seem to be a bit bigger. There's no webbing though so Im leaning more towards broad mites rn.
Anyways if someone could attempt to help me at identifying this that would be great. I was thinking of grabbing some neem oil today but I wanted to get some opinions before I made any moves. Any help is much appreciated!
I first started to notice that it looked like something was munching on my plants leaves. No matter how hard I tried though I couldn't find any pests besides the occasional what I think were fungus gnats but Ive heard that aphids look kinda like fungus gnats once theyve matured and grown wings so idk for sure.
Fast forward to yesterday, was doing some low stress training on one plant a couple days prior and the on this day Inoticed I may have bee a bit too greedy/rough with one of the plants and accidentally snapped one of the main branches at the stalk a bit. It wasn't snapped off completely, but there was a bit of an opening into main stalk and to my horror I see a small gang of VERY VERY tiny white mite looking creatures crawling from INSIDE the stalk! I panicked (and still an panicking) and inspected my other plants. The only mites I could find were outside the pots, but all plants have some chomping here and there on a few leaves.
The plants themselves look pretty okay. A bit of drooping and some leaves getting lighter but nothing crazy. One of the plants is in flower and the other too are showing pre-flowers. I am getting some twisted leaves on new growth. I know my watering schedule is working well because I have a plant in a tent downstairs that thriving.
I've done a massive amount of googling but I really couldnt determine exactly what my issue was. I narrowed it down to Aphids/Root aphids, Spider mites, broad mites, or some other form predatory mite. Ive read some mites can be beneficial, but Im new to all this so I just want to make sure I don't do anything drastic and damage my plant further.
I busted out my microscope and snagged a couple of pics. It was very hard because these mites move quite fast for their size. After examining these close though it seems to be some form of baby spider mite or broad mite? The front "antennae" looking things resemble a spider mite/broad mite the most to me as it doesnt seem aphids and from the looks of pics aphids seem to be a bit bigger. There's no webbing though so Im leaning more towards broad mites rn.
Anyways if someone could attempt to help me at identifying this that would be great. I was thinking of grabbing some neem oil today but I wanted to get some opinions before I made any moves. Any help is much appreciated!
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