Werunwild69
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Damn these bugs!!! Just in the past 6 months I've invested over 10k in seeds. Every time I think I won the battle....nope I sure didn't. Right now I'm running various strains and beginning to see a outbreak occurring again. My Romulan seems to be the least affected and the "White" the most. My gdp's & urkle strains are trying to hold on but I think they won't hold out much longer. I think my best luck would be to try and grow resistant strains only for a while. I was surfing various seed banks and several breeders mention if they are somewhat mite resistant or not. I need information! Everyone please chime in.
Well damn! Thanks for the info. I did shut my room down, but for only two weeks while I had new seedlings going in my other room. I wished I'd thought of the ozone as I have 3 industrial ozone generators. shit! I've just been looking under the microscope and to me they look like broad mites. Last night, out of 99 plants I inspected every single fuckin leaf. I got to the last plant and on a leaf I found I guess the only way to describe it is to call it "white splooge". What is that shit as well?I agree it's definitely all about prevention.. But you also have to find the source..
For instance, if you stop growing for lets say one month and completely clean everything and I mean everything with bleach.. If you have ozone, pump that room full of it for a few days and nothing I mean nothing will be living and ozone destroys the spider mite eggs and larva.
Then if you start back up and mites come back again.. Thats what I mean by finding the source.
Prevention is one thing.. Finding the source is another. Both need to take place in this situation IMO..
Also check out this place for mite control
Neoseiulus californicus predatory mite works very well for prevention.
Stay away from hydro store poison.
Good luck
It would definitely be good to get a positive ID on the critters before taking measures.
Not sure what you mean by "white spooge" could you get a pic? Thrips maybe?
If not spider mites, most likely you have Russets Mites. These guys spread via plant to plant contact. The common scenario is that they come in on a clone introduced from another garden.
Russet mites can only be seen by a handscope. They leave a brown residue on the petiole that most people mistake as rust or brown mold, sometimes people think they have TMV. In most cases by the time you actually notice the damage from these little buggers its already to late.
ID them by taking a handscope to the center of a leaf where the petiole splits into leaflets. This is where they hang out, they breed down the notch of the petiole.
If you see 1000s of little maggot looking things lurching around, you got Russets.
At this point I don't see any bug. I do see what could be fried bug or fried egg, not sure. Just looking under the microscope zoomed in, I do see some black splotching. ( microscope visual only). I was thinking infection setting in from the mite eating the shit out of them. I used fairly high pressure water on them too. When you are spraying the underside, you can see where they've eaten start to appear as the chlorophyl washes away in those spots. Saturday I actually saw bug( some kind of mite) under the scope. Can NOT see it without the microscope. Anyway after frying I did observe the bug changing shape so assuming they were turning to nuclear waste from the heat. Where I've seen them is on the under side of the leaf, not in any particular spot. I have applied extended high heat for a much longer duration than anyone would recommend. Several times. Will ozone do it? Who knows? Experts please chime in!It would definitely be good to get a positive ID on the critters before taking measures.
Not sure what you mean by "white spooge" could you get a pic? Thrips maybe?
If not spider mites, most likely you have Russets Mites. These guys spread via plant to plant contact. The common scenario is that they come in on a clone introduced from another garden.
Russet mites can only be seen by a handscope. They leave a brown residue on the petiole that most people mistake as rust or brown mold, sometimes people think they have TMV. In most cases by the time you actually notice the damage from these little buggers its already to late.
ID them by taking a handscope to the center of a leaf where the petiole splits into leaflets. This is where they hang out, they breed down the notch of the petiole.
If you see 1000s of little maggot looking things lurching around, you got Russets.
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