Leaves turning white starting with little dots?

1) Picture of plants - Done
2) Growing outdoors on my balcony
3) Once every 2-3 days depending on how hot it is. Generally I want for it to wilt a little then drench the soil
4) Soil
5) Vegging but sexed. That's another issue, it doesn't want to flower because where I live (Equator) has at least 12-13 hours of light a day!

I have 5 plants, 3 clones...and they're all getting this issue. I've been feeding it some nutrients (Schultz plant food), but carefully since I don't want it to burn.

Is this a fungus/deficiency of some sort? There are some tiny tiny tiny bugs that all splatter to red when I run my fingers underside, but i've recently bought myself some neem spray to get rid of them. Don't think it's those bugs though

spider mites

Mite heaven.

WOW!!!! spray the bottom of the leaves, repeat for a few days, and pray

Get a magnifying lens and take a closer look. The crawly aroundy thingies are what you are looking for.

Unlucky... Mites.

id remove that leaf, get some organicide(a mixture of anything in your foliar feed along the lines of canola oil(tablespoon per gal), marigold flowers, garlic, habenero peppers, neem oil, rosemary oil, and im pretty sure theres a few more).

if shes around any other plants id relocate her for a quarantine. maybe plant on growin marigolds around you plants or companion growin, these have always helped me deter mites.

about a pound, harvest in two weeks.








did you really need to ask us? there are a million threads on mites out there. they are the number 1 growers nightmare, that plant is toast unfortunately. either pay more attention to your plants or do an indoor grow keeping everything as clean and bug free as possible.

Hi guys. Thanks for your response. In finding that these are spider mites, it's obvious that I have a proper infestation on my hands and i've moved the badly infected plants aside. I saw small black dots on the underside of my leaves, but had no idea they would do such damage. I live like on the 20th floor, so i'm puzzled how they managed to get up here.

I have neem oil and i'm spraying the bejeezus out of it. From what you guys are saying, the plants are toast? Any way I can salvage any of these plants?

Thanks. Been great help

theyre everywhere, any bag you smoke probably has a couple in it. they tend to get carried by pets and our clothes from what ive heard, theyre really small so they probably get carried by the wind, once one makes its way in your garden youre just about guaranteed to have hundreds in a few days. another thing to look out for.

neem will probably do just fine, and it depends how much the plants infested, if its like the whole plant, most likely yes. make sure you spray your soil and the outside of your pots too.

ghb: As this is my third grow, and i've never encountered anything of this sort before, it was impossible for me to know that the keywords I was searching for was "spider mites" and "plants". I had searched for "spots on plants" "discoloration" "leaves turning white" etc. and found nothing.

So while your extensive knowledge on grows lead you to believe that diagnosing plant problems and searching for solutions is easy, you're sorely mistaken. But alas, there do exist a plenitude of people that post before research to get an answer fed to them. In this rare case, I had searched and tried many suggestions.

Should I just clone what I can and start over then?

and if theres parts of the plant that arent harmed id suggest cloning.