White specks on leaves! Help please!! 🙏🏼

[Joegrow357]

Hey everyone! Happy near year!

First attempt at growing and it’s been a learning experience! Close to harvest with this little plant (outdoor) and I am seeing white powdery mist on leaves. Seeing this may be mildew or spider mites. I’ve tried spraying the leaves with an neem oil/dish soap water mixture but haven’t seen any improvement.

Any recommendations?! Maybe do nothing since I’m close to harvest? Are the “cures” for this going to affect the taste of the buds?

Any help would be awesome!

Joe

 

[Joegrow357]

Hey everyone! Happy near year!

First attempt at growing and it’s been a learning experience! Close to harvest with this little plant (outdoor) and I am seeing white powdery mist on leaves. Seeing this may be mildew or spider mites. I’ve tried spraying the leaves with an neem oil/dish soap water mixture but haven’t seen any improvement.

Any recommendations?! Maybe do nothing since I’m close to harvest? Are the “cures” for this going to affect the taste of the buds?

Any help would be awesome!

Joe

 

[Oldchucky]

I am thinking pests instead of mildew! It’s up to you to have some kind of magnification on hand to inspect the leaves and determine what kind of pests. And I think you are a ways from harvest yet, so you might want to get after it! Just two cents! Good luck!

 

[Eledin]

Im with chuky that looks like insect bites. Check below the leaves specially. If you cant see anything or just tiny specs its probably microscopic mites. If you see insects flying around its thrips and if you see them clearly static below the leaves its mites. If it were spider mites you would have some webs by now, but it could be, but I think its regular mites or one of the beforementioned.
Oidium/powdery mildew is more like powder and with the finger you can remove it partially, doesnt resemble oidium, its insect bites.

 

[Eledin]

Sorry corrected myself there, I said aphids when I meant thrips, those are the fuckers who fly. I think some aphids can jump or fly short distances too but is not usually the case.

 

[Oldchucky]

In my experience with them, thrips are easy to identify by the black poop that they leave! Don’t need a Loupe to figure that out! My guess would be some kind of miite. You do need a Loupe to figure them out!

 

[Eledin]

In my experience with them, thrips are easy to identify by the black poop that they leave! Don’t need a Loupe to figure that out! My guess would be some kind of miite. You do need a Loupe to figure them out!

Yup yup, whatever is on the back side of the leaves if there is anything is either bugs or bug poop. Microscopic mites look like insect poop too because they barely move in their lifetime and theyre too tiny to be able to differenciate body parts with a loupe.

 

[Eledin]

Any recommendations?! Maybe do nothing since I’m close to harvest? Are the “cures” for this going to affect the taste of the buds?
Its always bad having to spray your plants when in flower and if its thrips they will just come again unless you find them all there. If you cant find any of those fuckers below the leaves means they have another base nearby and no matter if you spray them they will come back. I dont grow outdoors so maybe someone can give you a better course of action. Ive seen people use citric acid, I personally prefeer hydrogen peroxide, no residue. But even hydrogen peroxide which is the mildest you could use will slightly damage the tricomes as it creates microscopic explosions when it decomposes. That said, I would lie if I say I never sprayed them with hydrogen peroxide (even more diluted in water) because I wasnt happy with the trichome production, controlled damage can help, triggers their defense mecanism, in this case trichomes.
If its bugs and you decide to use anything else than hydrogen peroxide you will need to do a bud wash after harvest. Dont be afraid trichomes are hydrophobic, a membrane separates them from the water so you wont lose potency. A few pistils at most.

IMPORTANT: Dont use any oily substance, washing them wont clean that, specially avoid neem oil but any oil for that matter.

 

[Ninjadogma]

If you grow outside, a little bit of garden netting can go a long way. It won't stop the little critters like aphids and mites but will help keep moths and larger leaf munchers away.

 

[HGE]

You have a spider mites issue. And you have a nitrogen toxicity in your plants as well..

 

[8Rhizome8]

This sounds like a job for Enzymes Komplete. Lost Coast Plant Therapy is another. Mix with chemical free water and spray the undersides of your foliage until soaked. Do it again five days later. That looks like spider mites to me.

 

[Joegrow357]

This sounds like a job for Enzymes Komplete. Lost Coast Plant Therapy is another. Mix with chemical free water and spray the undersides of your foliage until soaked. Do it again five days later. That looks like spider mites to me.

Thanks! Just ordered Lost Coast Plant Thearpy

 

[8Rhizome8]

Thanks! Just ordered Lost Coast Plant Thearpy

Plant Therapy is brilliantly put together. It’s worked very well for me.

 

[capone304]

Hey everyone! Happy near year!

First attempt at growing and it’s been a learning experience! Close to harvest with this little plant (outdoor) and I am seeing white powdery mist on leaves. Seeing this may be mildew or spider mites. I’ve tried spraying the leaves with an neem oil/dish soap water mixture but haven’t seen any improvement.

Any recommendations?! Maybe do nothing since I’m close to harvest? Are the “cures” for this going to affect the taste of the buds?

Any help would be awesome!

Joe

Man January at my house looks like this wish I could grow outside in January