Broad mites? Not again :(

[Buddah Watcha]

So here's the short story, somehow I had broad mites in the beginning of the year, i shut down everything for a few months, cleaned the shit out of everything, got rid of all soil and stuff.

Few months later I started a new cycle. Things seemed fine, a few leafs claws here and there, which I though it was heat stress, plants are now a few weeks into flowering and I am starting to see some burned pistils, and a few leaves damage, which makes me think that them fuckers are back... The burned pistils are only on 2 or 3 out of 25 plants... I'm really hoping its just some pollen that was still in my cabinet and polinated these nugs...

I tried looking with a scope 40x on the leafs, I did see some little white balls that look like eggs.. FUCK however those fuckers are really hard to be spotted...

I have ibamectin, however I dont really want to use it since we are already on week 3 of flowering... I'll prolly spray them with some canola oil mixed with some essential oils, and hopefully that will help...

What do you guys think. Am I being paranoid or should I really be worried.

Good thing, this is most likely my last run on this location, so in a few months I'll have to start fresh, just hope I don't bring these fuckers to the new spot... that would be disastrous...

Here some pictures

Any help is highly appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[king oscar]

Keep scoping and start spraying with ogbiowar

 

[Scrappy-doo]

If the white balls are symmetrically spaced, they are resin glands.

 

[who dat is]

OG Biowar is horrendously overpriced and IMHO hyped up.

If you are worried about it and the "problem" isn't progressing too quickly then I would go ahead and order some Swiirski mites and let them do all the work.

 

[MeltingPOT]

Too late for abamectin, definitely BM damage. Pay close attention to the rounding out and lack of serration on the lower portion of the fan leaf, another tell-tale sign and seen in your bottom picture.

Spinosad does them good, OgBiowar does them good, Predator mites do them good. Getting rid completely takes diligence or a complete reset button.

Were these from seed?

 

[Coughie]

If I were you, and I knew I was switching spots in the near future,
And I imagine you want to take some cuttings with you..

I would start ordering a combination of swirskii and cucumeris or andersoni,
And try to manipulate the environment to the parameters that the mites thrive in

These are the opposite conditions to what the pests prefer, normally

I would place orders every 3-4 weeks through the move,
2-3 orders where you're at now, 2-3 orders where you're going


But it'd help to ID them positively first..

I order predator mites every once in a while even when I have no pests
The insurance is cheaper than the panic/stress of finding pests established

HTH

 

[Buddah Watcha]

Thanks for the input guys, I have some predator mites coming as we speak, so hopefully this will help! I'm pretty confident its broad mites... and yes, this was a seed run, was trying to pheno hunt, but will see if I decide to keep any of them or just have a fresh start at the new spot, better not to risk bringing these fuckers on the move...

Today I sprayed some canola oil along with rosemary, eucalyptus and lavender essential oils and a bit of dish soap...

I'll skip the abamectin, I got some spinosad, maybe give a shot with that and in a few days should have some swirskii and cucumeris here to help fight this war!

I don't think things are too bad yet, since I only spotted one or two plants out the pistils damage...

I will make some seeds this run, focus more on that I guess, at least that way I don't lose a bunch of good genetics, and the start fresh at the new spot...

I'll keep y'all posted on the progress!

Thanks everyone!

 

[Buddah Watcha]

1st round of re-enforcement troops released... a hungry infantry, sprinked on top of all the plants, like a parachute army of a. californicus, ready to cut their heads off and suck their blood.... YAARRRRR GET'ER SOLDIERS, NO MERCY, KILL KILL KILL!

 

[Dankwolf]

check under leafs for wite gray tiny bugs /mini webs. If you varify you have them i woild recommend the 3 day rule . #1 get some blue dawn soap . #2 get a mister or pump sprayer . #3 get some neem oil if you can . for 3 days straint spray dawn soap mixed with water (1 tbs dawn soap per gallon of water). Then for 6 days spray with dawn soap 1tbs a gallon and 1 tbs a gallon neem oil alternating water every other with strait water . the after that spray just water every 3rd day for 9 days . make sure to spray under leafs and grow room with mix. Also spray right at lights out or pull lights up if possable. Clean grow room , all equipment , house , close and keep things clean . you can get rid of them if you have them . get on it soon if its mites .

 

[Dankwolf]

if you can get neem you can use just dawn soap at 1 tbs a gollon but i strongly recomend it mites have a tendency to get immune to treatments of just one product . u might want to incorperate a preventative maintenance program of spraying neem 1tbs per gallon and dawn soap 1 tbs per gallon (in the same gallon ) every 20 days or so in veg room . flowering room is a bit different . i dont like to use sprays in flower unless absolutely necessary after week 5-6 of flowing . good luck hope this helped?

 

[Dankwolf]

I have got rid of mites every time i have got them 100% in 30 days ( usually get them from clones that get gifted lol)

 

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