Plants are sick! Help please

Casper416

Member
What's the best way to get rid of them? Saw a couple things online just curious if u have any recommendations. Got a few out near that one. Should I worry about them spreading to others?
 

Fender Guitar

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I would move infested plants away from healthy ones to minimize chance of spreading.
Try spraying with neem oil and rinse it off of buds with pure water a few days later.
 

Seserth

Active Member
Heard it's kind of toxic tho. Should I worry? I'm about 2 weeks into flower
Are those recent pics ? Neem is safe to use for cannabis or you can make your own organic pesticide (there are recipes online). Just spray them until there is no more pests. I did it about one spray a week. Just make sure you dont spray anything 1 month before harvest. Also spray in the evening when it is cool.
 

Seserth

Active Member
Yeah it's recent pics. Thanks for the tips everyone. Will be going shopping tonigjt for some neem oil.
If you can make sure it is cold pressed. But any brand of neem oil will work I used the one from home depot and it got the job done. Also put up some yellow sticky traps ! :-)
 

petert

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Yep. Looks like classic Russet mite damage!! You need at least a 30 - 60x mag to see them. Little torpedo shaped fuckers!!

Get Nuk Em or Green Cleaner. They are harder than fuck to kill off completely. Hit them hard and hit them often. But remember to rinse your plants the next day.

I got hit hard last year. I'm a fairly large medicinal grower. 48 plants each on two tax lots.

If you're not being effective with your spraying your buds will begin to brown up.. hemp Russets love buds.

You don't need to focus as much on the top side of the leaf, but blast away on the underside.. they hang out in nooks and crannies on the underside.
I spoke with entomologist here in Oregon at Evergreen Grower Supply. By the time you see damage on a leaf there can be as many as 1-2,000 Russets per leaf!! I started to see them last month again and I sprayed wettable sulphur for three weeks every third day..
Then I spent a week doing a weak foliar feed with cold water.
Last week I switched to Green Cleaner for the plants that I still feel comfortable spraying..
next week I release predator mites. Californicus and Andersoni mites to see be through the end of Sept!
Hope that helps!
 
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