Grizzly's Guide to Pulverizing Pests

Please help, I have an infestation of something and don't know what it is. A fellow grower is also having the same problem. I am not seeing any bugs on my plants, I have checked morning, noon and night. But the evidence of something is present. The infestation is attacking the top half of the plants and they are attacking the small shoots. Its almost as if the shoots are getting bitten through to the point that they fall over but they don't fall off. They have a brown spot on the side of the shoot that has fallen over. I have tried several things from neem oil to murphys oil soap, and have even gone as far as Sevin dust and nothing is stopping these little critters. I have 60 plants that look they are in very serious trouble. I certainly don't want to loose this whole crop. Any help to point me in the right directions would be GREATLY appreciated. Im sorry I cant provide pics at this time, but as soon as I get my hands on a camera I will do so.

loved this thread.. helped me identify 'leaf miners' in my plant, thanks a million....

Hey guys.. need some help to identify some bugs !



Is this spider mites?

Can they do harm to my ladies??

A couple weeks ago I noticed sides of leaves and tips disappearing and I can find no bugs. I check the plant day an night with no bugs being seen. So I bought this stuff called Azamax (http://generalhydroponics.com/site/index.php/products/maintenance/azamax1/) and sprayed it, I thought it stopped and now it seems to have started again (see photos below)
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I guess I can try spraying them with the Azamax stuff again but I wanted to check with you experts before I did.
Thank you in advance!

I also noticed that the tips of the plant that are disappearing are the new growth tips that might be too new to have some of the Azamax on them so maybe just spraying them again is the best thing - but I am sure some of you will see this and know immediately. Thanks

I wouldn't go too crazy with chemicals personally not even in veg since everything i grow i smoke for medicine. Use non toxic products, ive been pushing the idea of NON TOXIC to everyone possible after i got very very ill after smoking a bit of bud treated with chemicals.. not fun at all. The best product ive used to date was skunk labs horticulture sprays, it seems to work on a wide range of pests and was very effective on my mildew issue has recently.. So Id advise everyone to stick with non toxic products only even in veg!!

I would upload a pic of the product but the site wont let me download pic. its skunklabshc com

Any chance the leaf or leaves touched a sticky for bug control ?

Russet broad mite?

Great thread Griz.
I've got a type of bug not mentioned here. (I think)
It's smaller than fungus gnats, had a few of those.
They're almost the shape and size of whiteflies, but black...
There is nothing on my plants, and I've seen these fuckers wriggle their way out of my soil.
Help! Please.

Hi,

I read your tips, and otherwise I’ve eradicated them in the past, but this ones weird so I’m looking for advice from other experienced growers..

I have 90 plants 7 weeks in flower, was going to cut on the 25th earliest (8 weeks), I inspected all pretty thoroughly and exactly 4 of the 90 are infested with mites. I could swear this was not the case a few days ago when I had to handle each of them for some training due to tipping etc..

How odd is it that these 4 plants are pretty infested (no webbing but many visible eggs and mites moving about) yet there is NO sign of damage on anything else? I was going to just chop these premature and keep a close eye on everything else. I’ve also got 135 in my grow room, also not a single sign of damage or mite presence ... so 4/ 225 plants look like they’re being feasted on .. should I scrap them and remove from room, or harvest now and isolate from the rest, or isolate and let them finish flowering if anything just to keep the mite population from migrating ?? And wtf do I do about my others in flower? Wait it out? Should I hit them with sponsad? (Monterey garden insect spray) .. even at week 7? Won’t affect smell / taste/burn ? I never run into this this late in flower cause I do usually maintain a tight ship on big control..I find it so weird they seem to show up overnight on such a small portion of plants considering what I have.. as of right now, I’m thinking I’ll just keep temps low humidity low check often and chop early if it indeed spreads.. bleach my flower room top to bottom twice once these are out then just back to a normal rotation of sprays for 3-4 weeks on my pants that are in veg now?

Polecat said:

Little white slugs eat a diesel ryder male with in days of setting it outside. I would pick them off every morning. The 3 rd day 6 of them were on it, atleast 50% of the leaves were eat'n. I put it out of its misery 2 days ago. Didn't see a picture of them but I have been battling these thing around the end of may every year. My number 1 pest except for deer and humans.



What is this bug here. He entered my cab carrying a suitcase and was like what up. He didn't bother anything so i let him stay.

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stink bug !

Stink bug