Spider mites or what?

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Hi appears to have potassium deficiency and maybe phosphorus deficiency, flowering nutrients, its been building buds so makes sense to me.


Those white spots look like mite damage. Theyre easy to spot with a lens, check under leaves

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Yeah I’m in week 7 of flower and was having some problems with feeding until just recently, @Lostgirl has been helping me get it back on track. I believe I have spider mites, a few weeks ago I got a no pest strip and put it in the grow closet overnight with the door closed, but I didn’t stay persistent with it I only did it a couple times. Okay well I’m late into flower for the mites to make a difference you think?

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Ok I seen you got that help, you been nutrified, good.
Give the topsoil a misting a couple times a day, they dont like damp soil, but only a damp misting not to overwater nor mess with your water schedule. Remove bugs, clean your plant, bud wash, hang limbs upside down, should be ok. If you have one plant.
But you got other plants they could spread to, I dunno what to suggest there

Why did you stop with the no pest strip. They work really good if used properly. If used improperly they can creat super bugs imune to anything contained in the no pest strip. I would sugest putting it back in for the life cycle of the mite plus a little extra time. Just to make sure.
Exeption if grow area is in an area occupied by humans more that 4 hours a day. If that is the case shame always follow safey warnings.
The chemical in no pest strips after being exposed to water or humidity turns into another even less harmful chemical and disipates into the air. To be gone forever. Nps is the onlything besides bug zappers I use for bugs.
Sorry for the little rant.

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Well it’s a closet in my hallway when I put the strip in I keep the door closed. That should be okay right? right?

What is the misting for? I have to do a blood wash?

I would think as long as you put a towel or something at bottom of door.

Well Im confused cuz a uear ago I read they like warm dry environment so I started wetting and dropped the temps and got rid of them. I just took a refresher and read they like damp soil. But I putthem in a cold room and kept damp a week straight and they gone. I dont know anymore. I change my answer to, clean your plant, do budwash, hang branches upside down to dry.

Do you lose potency when you do a budwash

Nope no worries there.
A few trics probably come off the surface but mostly are buried. Just like a few rub off when trimmed, handled, bagged… just a few and not enough to notice

And what is the difference of not doing a budwash? Like what if I skipped the budwashing process

It will wash away insect parts, eggs, poop, mold spores, and more. They say taste improves. I only done it once dunno yet.

Spider mites like new growth not old leaves. You see a cobweb like structure on the leaves where the mites are. The mites are small but you can see them if you have normal eyesight. A magnifying glass makes it even easier to see them and they look like small red/ brown dots in the cobwebs.

If you do get spider mites on plants you can make a safe insecticide
2.5 tablespoons (37 ml) vegetable oil
2.5 tablespoons (37 ml) pure liquid soap (not detergent)
1 gallon (3.8 L) warm water (distilled or tap, but not hard)

Mix those ingredients and add to a spray bottle. Take the plant outside and spray it all over to cover the mites. Make sure you spray on the underside as well as the top of the leaves so you get all the mites. Wait an hour or two and rinse of with tap water.

It’s a good idea to fertilize the plant after you have rinsed it off because you usually end up with a lot of water going through the potting mix when you rinse the plant after spraying it.

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This is spider mites… but yes those white little specs do look like the start of spider mites…

Here is a plant i had infested at one time… you can see all the little white dots in the second pic… i used azamax to eradicate followed by a 3 part bud wash at harvest.


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ChittyChittyBangin, that first picture looks a bit like a jellyfish. That’s a bad case of spider mites.

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I thought it was a cubensis cap. lol
At a glance

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Im down for a bite if you are… :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: just ask Alice when shes 10 feet tall :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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I have never seen one that bad before.

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