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Hello all,
Iāve been growing my babies outdoors (started indoors moved outdoors on May 24) and theyāve been in the ground ever since. Some plants have shown a few spots usually originating around the centre of the leaves, like where all the fingers converge to the stem, and moving slightly outwards from the stem. At first I figured itās gotta need some cal-mag as most of the water these plants have been getting is rain water; got a nice sunny few days and fed them some supplemental nutrients (grow formula, root booster/vitamin bs, and cal-mag) and no more spots have shown that I have noticed.
I also recently picked up a cheap digital microscope and figured today Iād take a look at what was actually going on there. Took one finger from a leaf which was showing the symptoms and seen a bunch of TINY white spheres on both the top side and underside of the leaves:
I havenāt ever had the opportunity to look close up at the leaves like this until now so Iām a little new to whats occuring on the microscopic level. My question is now has anyone seen this before and could confirm that itās spider mites? Also if it is could they be the culprits of the brown spots showing up?
I was also getting scared that it couldāve been leaf septoria as most of the spots on leaves are very circular (however not really in the one on the first photo). But donāt think it is anymore
Also this leaf was taken right after I sprayed with Neem oil. Only issue is the weather outdoors where I am has been quite rainy lately and I can barely get a solid week or two where I can get a few good Neem oil sprayings in to kill off everything on them. I spray them whenever I get a chance really!
Iāve been growing my babies outdoors (started indoors moved outdoors on May 24) and theyāve been in the ground ever since. Some plants have shown a few spots usually originating around the centre of the leaves, like where all the fingers converge to the stem, and moving slightly outwards from the stem. At first I figured itās gotta need some cal-mag as most of the water these plants have been getting is rain water; got a nice sunny few days and fed them some supplemental nutrients (grow formula, root booster/vitamin bs, and cal-mag) and no more spots have shown that I have noticed.
I also recently picked up a cheap digital microscope and figured today Iād take a look at what was actually going on there. Took one finger from a leaf which was showing the symptoms and seen a bunch of TINY white spheres on both the top side and underside of the leaves:
I havenāt ever had the opportunity to look close up at the leaves like this until now so Iām a little new to whats occuring on the microscopic level. My question is now has anyone seen this before and could confirm that itās spider mites? Also if it is could they be the culprits of the brown spots showing up?
I was also getting scared that it couldāve been leaf septoria as most of the spots on leaves are very circular (however not really in the one on the first photo). But donāt think it is anymore
Also this leaf was taken right after I sprayed with Neem oil. Only issue is the weather outdoors where I am has been quite rainy lately and I can barely get a solid week or two where I can get a few good Neem oil sprayings in to kill off everything on them. I spray them whenever I get a chance really!