bodhi seeds
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D619
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Yes Whiteflies are a vector of broad mites, quite common. I was reading a paper about whiteflies being stuck to sticky traps with broad mites attach to them. A hydro shop I frequently go to has disease infested plants upon entering the shop. And yes a rub on the plant bam mites attach to your clothes or simple the wind blowing them on you. That's why I always shower and change of clothes before entering the grow room. Prevention ! Can't state that enough..Broad mites use other insects to get around. Mainly whiteflies. They hang on to their legs to get airborne. If you see a whitefly fluttering around, there is a possibility there are broad mites on board.
TonightYou
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They are not fans of humidity. But it won't necessarily kill them, they simply are slowed down. They thrive in dry places and do desire a dark period. . What's weird is your vegging plants may not show any damage, but after a few weeks in flower the damage begins to appear
D619
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Dipping method works well if they are small clones. Also must use a wetting agent as well.
Capt. Stickyfingers
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You're thinking spider mites. Broad mites prefer higher humidity and temps between 60-80f.
D619
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TonightYou
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No, I've had spider mites, these were not spider mites. These never created webs, poisoned the leaves and we're much smaller than spider mites.
Feel free to go back when I started on here. There are pictures of my sick plants. They were definitely broad mites.
Eta, my temps were in low to mid 80 and my humidity wad under 50%
Capt. Stickyfingers
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I believe you man. I'm just saying they prefer higher humidity and comfortable temps. Not high temps, low rh like spider mites.
TonightYou
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There are a few different species of mites that can fall under the category of "broad mites" these things are barely visible at 30x, a translucent tiny dot that you can see moving if you watch and poke around, the leaves pit, and do terrible damage to the tops of plants first, slowly working down as your plant dies.
Honestly I kept thinking I had a deficiency. I can see spider mites, these things are a different beast.
Breko
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Hell yeah Doc. You're killin it with the vert iglooYou are not kidding
Goji f2 seedlings
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I have four of theses just starting to flower will put them up sunday when i get back home.
Loving your pics.
Breko
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Major wildfires in my area. I can smell smoke in the growroom. Wonder what the affects of that will be. Don't you hate things you can't control that fuck up your ladies?
On second thought. That's selfish of me. Lotta folks are losing houses and many wild forest animals are dying. It was arson too. They caught the idiot. Things aren't gonna go well for him.
On second thought. That's selfish of me. Lotta folks are losing houses and many wild forest animals are dying. It was arson too. They caught the idiot. Things aren't gonna go well for him.
Mr.Head
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yeah, just seen that on the news, the guy was in his 30's wtf... that's some teenage kid type stupidity
Stay safe man. Hopefully it doesn't get any closer to you
Mr.Head
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Man, I just got to do some late night duct rigging, I think my filter is shot. Which sucks cause it fucking wreaks in here.
Had a hanger full of EmDog hanging right next to my exhaust fan lol Maybe that was my issue, hopefully or I'mma have to order a new filter This shit has some OG funk to it that's for sure. House wreaks bad lol
Had a hanger full of EmDog hanging right next to my exhaust fan lol Maybe that was my issue, hopefully or I'mma have to order a new filter
This shit has some OG funk to it that's for sure. House wreaks bad lol
Breko
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About how long do you guys let filters go for? I usually give them a year. Claims say they go for 2.........But>>>>safe/sorry.Man, I just got to do some late night duct rigging, I think my filter is shot. Which sucks cause it fucking wreaks in here.
Had a hanger full of EmDog hanging right next to my exhaust fan lol Maybe that was my issue, hopefully or I'mma have to order a new filter
Mad Hamish
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Just watch your filters for soot mate, had this issue once with a field fire here. Wrecked my filters. The HEPA intakes were shot. Stay safe bro.