Help my seedlings live!

MrBlackHat

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Hello all, first time grower here. Last night I discovered a slight mite problem just started from some used grow equipment I acquired. I went and sprayed my seedlings with some habanero pepper spray from a thread I saw and left them in my bath room without light for around 24 hours with fans on so I could clean the room and equipment. They seem to be turning a dark orange to black. Is this a fungi? Can my little ones be saved? Please help
 

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Roger A. Shrubber

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spraying anything on seedlings is dangerous, they're at their most vulnerable at that point. what an adult plant will shrug off will fuck up a seedling.
its not a fungus or anything else, you burnt them with the pepper spray. they might recover, they might not. if they do recover, it'll take them at least a couple of weeks, they have to store up enough energy to put out some new leaves. that might take them a little while with the limited leaf surface they have left.
don't spray a seedling with anything. let them get bigger. you might have had mites, you might not have, but now you have a real problem to deal with. would have been better dealing with the mites for a couple of weeks, till the plants could take it.
and look into some spinosad. pepper spray will work....on bigger plants. spinosad won't burn a seedling like that. i'd still go light with it, but it won't do that.
 

HydroRed

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How strong was the pepper spray? Those look about done though. Not much left of the leafs to get back into good shape and thats a LOT of stress to put a seedling through. If you have other seeds or didnt go broke on those, I'd suggest just scrapping those and starting fresh with new seeds and a clean, mite free room.
 
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