Do you suffer from Powdery Mildew Paranoia after dealing with your first outbreak?

I gotta say I am overly paranoid about the stuff since my last grow, this time I have started from seeds (unfortunately my Chemdog was a dud, The Church may also be a dude... two of the strains I wanted most) but I got the Cluster Bomb, AMS, and Supersonic Cristal Storm growing just fine. My Cluster Bomb I just spotted a couple tiny white specs (hoping it's from my hair, haha) but I did a Sulfur vape down here (only a couple hours) after cleaning the whole basement a few weeks ago now I have some plants that are about 5" tall just starting to build roots in DWC but can't shake this paranoia (so I am vaporizing for another 4 hours as I type this)

Basically what I saw were SINGLE tiny white specs, just 1 or 2 on a couple leaves almost like it was something else... kind of funny but I really hope it's dandruff or something (lol) since I am always hovering over them due to my obsession. Is there anything else these could be besides PM? I have a hard time imagining I'd have it AGAIN already, especially since I started with seeds and not clones from a friend I have come to learn has regular PM issues like the last time I had an outbreak.

So do you suffer from PM Paranoia too? I swear if I have another Crop turn sub-par from this I'm going to quit lol.

White dots on leaves could be Spider Mites... check the undersides of leaves for any tiny little creatures or their little white eggs near the veins of the leaf

Oh yeah, I also had a 4 month or so downtime between this new grow and the last, when I ran into that outbreak I simply quit growing after the harvest so I doubt it had anything to live off of down there in those 4 months. I also did the Sulfer vaporization before starting the new seeds, I don't do it regularly though maybe once for a few hours and then not again for a while as it's a big hassle to clear all the clothes out of my basement every time I do it.

BeastGrow said:

White dots on leaves could be Spider Mites... check the undersides of leaves for any tiny little creatures or their little white eggs near the veins of the leaf

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Thanks man, I will check that out when the sulfur clears in about 4-5 hours, I gotta shut it off in 4 hours then after I run my extraction fan for a while I'll go down there. I did have a couple gnat like flies hanging around in my tent too (honestly never saw any of them before on my last grow) I also did insect fumigation down here about 2 months ago which makes it seem even less likely to have a huge outbreak of pests. Maybe the sulfur will help kill off anything else too, I am using it more for preventative measures originally hoping to never see PM again.

I will take pics later too if I can find any of the spots, I kind of just wiped 2 or 3 of them off with my finger to see what it was.

The plant in question looks really healthy too, like almost perfect, so that's giving me a small bit of optimism.

Dry still air is what allows Spider Mites to thrive...

right on... I do definitely have dry air but have been running a small humidifier in the tent with an oscillating fan (which is not oscillating, I simple don't have room in my tent) I also have a Hydrofarm 6" fan continually sucking air out of it so there's movement I can see all of the plants dancing slightly although the fan is blowing at the side of the tent and not directly on any of the plants. My Humidity was around 20-30% but now is starting to pull into the 40 range since Winter is Going (away) and taking the dry air with it. I don't think I need the humidifier anymore.

I am holding on to the thought that I am just paranoid until any further developments but will definitely snap some pics this afternoon.

http://naturalindustries.com/commercial/Docs/2012/avlglabelca.pdf FTW

Here's a couple pics, I had a full response typed up here but I lost it when the image upload caused the forum to break on me... whatever too lazy to retype it all up. Basically the top of my cubes has white crusty/fuzzy look to it but I am assuming (hoping) it's just dried up nutes/salts from the water I have not top fed or soaked the cube in several days now as the roots are growing really nice in the bucket. Also there's no visible spots on the leaves anymore I think it was just something that blew right off but I'm going to be paranoid for a while due to my last disaster... New growth seems great to me, the earliest sets of leaves on all plants were really rough spotty orange/brown like they got burned by nutes because I did not have my buckets dialed in for a while.

There's probably nothing wrong with anything and it's just paranoia, I cant even show you what I was talking about on the leaves because it's not there anymore. Hopefully I'm not destroying my plants right now either I waited 1.5 hours after turning off sulfur to kick the lights and fans back on.





This plant had a FIM job the other day hence the rough looking tip, getting it early so I can LST the 4 new shoots and everything beyond that.