Recycling stems and fan leaves

mista sativa

mista sativa

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Greenthumbs256 said:
Can u expand on them mites? Bc I have mites in my soil but they don't really seem to bother my plant except for a few leaves here and there and everyone told me they were spider mites! But to this day I have never seen a web! Could u help me out?
I'll post the video of the mites below!
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I can’t get a relative size. They May be hyposasis miles mites. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoaspis_miles
There are only a few things to really worry about. If you have a complete healthy soil food web, in optimal conditions it usually self regulates pest. Just keep an eye out for aphids... I’ve yet to run into them. But mites are your friend. They eat shit, and battle. All that becomes bio available to your plants.
 
mista sativa

mista sativa

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Miyagismokes said:
Wouldn't this, theoretically, be a disease/pest vector? I burn my stalks just in case.
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Not at all. The mychorrizae really explode with degrading vegetation. I also plant cover crop. Up until flower, I’m constantly chopping and turning my clover. I add compost, dank top dressing, and barley mulch on top. The soil really comes alive. Fungi, mites, worms all love it. Then especially the plants
 
Greenthumbs256

Greenthumbs256

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mista sativa said:
I can’t get a relative size. They May be hyposasis miles mites. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoaspis_miles
There are only a few things to really worry about. If you have a complete healthy soil food web, in optimal conditions it usually self regulates pest. Just keep an eye out for aphids... I’ve yet to run into them. But mites are your friend. They eat shit, and battle. All that becomes bio available to your plants.
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The size is about the size of the tip of a pen! Visible with the naked eye but you have to stare and look close and wait for them to move! The video was taken with a digital microscope that goes up to 100x maybe more no way to tell unfortunately
 
mista sativa

mista sativa

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Greenthumbs256 said:
The size is about the size of the tip of a pen! Visible with the naked eye but you have to stare and look close and wait for them to move! The video was taken with a digital microscope that goes up to 100x maybe more no way to tell unfortunately
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They probably aren’t aphids. Look at the link I sent you. Also YouTube has some videos. If I had to bet, they are probably hyposasis miles mites. They are good. I have a healthy population. They’ll go after the bad guys.
 
Miyagismokes

Miyagismokes

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Greenthumbs256 said:
The size is about the size of the tip of a pen! Visible with the naked eye but you have to stare and look close and wait for them to move! The video was taken with a digital microscope that goes up to 100x maybe more no way to tell unfortunately
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I'm honestly more interested in seeing the damage than the mites...
I'm not super knowledgeable about bugs, I don't know any mites that attack plants but don't live on it.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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if your compost heap seems healthy, and has no bad odors (except the ones it should have), then chances are anything living in it is beneficial, and won't hurt your plants. it'll also probably die off pretty quickly in your pots, once you remove it from the main mass of compost.
 
Greenthumbs256

Greenthumbs256

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Miyagismokes said:
I'm honestly more interested in seeing the damage than the mites...
I'm not super knowledgeable about bugs, I don't know any mites that attack plants but don't live on it.
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These pics are when I first noticed damage and saw white egg pod things on the bottom side of the leafs! That's has since been delt with and haven't had any new damage since I sprayed with neem and azamax! So I have no more damage and plants are recovering but I still find these bugs in my worm bin and pots! I'm just waiting for money to get predatory mites and start some ipm set up! CM180529-030157006.jpg
 
Miyagismokes

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Greenthumbs256 said:
These pics are when I first noticed damage and saw white egg pod things on the bottom side of the leafs! That's has since been delt with and haven't had any new damage since I sprayed with neem and azamax! So I have no more damage and plants are recovering but I still find these bugs in my worm bin and pots! I'm just waiting for money to get predatory mites and start some ipm set up! View attachment 4155260
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It DOES look like spider mite damage, but why would spider mites hang out in a work bin?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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they wouldn't. they might be in there because you just dumped infected material in there, but they wouldn't hang around long. i think he may be confusing the beneficial mites in the bin with spider mites, you can have both at the same time.
 
Greenthumbs256

Greenthumbs256

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
they wouldn't. they might be in there because you just dumped infected material in there, but they wouldn't hang around long. i think he may be confusing the beneficial mites in the bin with spider mites, you can have both at the same time.
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I think you are correct! I haven't dumped anything bad into my bin but I could have easily mistaken the two bc I have very lil knowledge about them!
 
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