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Good morning. I just recently got into the hobby of growing marijuana, and I've got some 'pest' issues, I think.
My seedlings are 15 days old today, sprouted on May 23rd. I germinated in a cup of distilled water before planting them in 4.00 round pots, PROMIX organic seed starting mix. I have not added anything to the pots besides water. I'm growing in my closet area, it's CLEAN, walls were scrubbed down, floor was vacuumed. The pots are sitting on a plastic saucer, on top of a box, about 30 inches from my grow light, set at 50% intensity, 18/6 every day.
The other day I noticed little black specks on the leaves, I originally thought this was dirt from me misting the top of the soil with my spray bottle. But yesterday I began to notice one of my plants had red stems, and the leaves looked sort of droopy. I'm thinking this might be spider mites. But I'm unsure, there isn't any 'webbing' usually associated with such an infestation. I do not have a microscope to further look at these specks to see what they look like, and if I order one off of Amazon, this 'infestation' might get out of hand (if it's not already out of hand).
How do I correctly go about identifying what these little black specks are, and how do I resolve this issue?
My seedlings are 15 days old today, sprouted on May 23rd. I germinated in a cup of distilled water before planting them in 4.00 round pots, PROMIX organic seed starting mix. I have not added anything to the pots besides water. I'm growing in my closet area, it's CLEAN, walls were scrubbed down, floor was vacuumed. The pots are sitting on a plastic saucer, on top of a box, about 30 inches from my grow light, set at 50% intensity, 18/6 every day.
The other day I noticed little black specks on the leaves, I originally thought this was dirt from me misting the top of the soil with my spray bottle. But yesterday I began to notice one of my plants had red stems, and the leaves looked sort of droopy. I'm thinking this might be spider mites. But I'm unsure, there isn't any 'webbing' usually associated with such an infestation. I do not have a microscope to further look at these specks to see what they look like, and if I order one off of Amazon, this 'infestation' might get out of hand (if it's not already out of hand).
How do I correctly go about identifying what these little black specks are, and how do I resolve this issue?