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Are these symptoms of mites?
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I checked the underside of all leaves, specially the ones with the tiny yellow/white spots, and didn't find a single spider mite or egg or webbing. Used a 60x scope.
 
Really doesn't look like insect damage of any kind to me. Check all your leaves, especially lower ones under for eggs etc. though. Anything flying?
Is this lower or upper leaves? What does the plant look like overall?
I don't want to give more/bad advice without more info if it's the start of a deficiency or something else. Looks to me though like maybe something was sprayed, fine mist maybe and light burned little pockmarks in the leaf.
 
Are these symptoms of mites?
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I checked the underside of all leaves, specially the ones with the tiny yellow/white spots, and didn't find a single spider mite or egg or webbing. Used a 60x scope.

How many leaves are affected. Looks to be just normal coloring unless it's everywhere. Then you may need to worry. No one is perfect so the same goes with plants.
 
Really doesn't look like insect damage of any kind to me. Check all your leaves, especially lower ones under for eggs etc. though. Anything flying?
Is this lower or upper leaves? What does the plant look like overall?
I don't want to give more/bad advice without more info if it's the start of a deficiency or something else. Looks to me though like maybe something was sprayed, fine mist maybe and light burned little pockmarks in the leaf.

nothing flying around, nothing walking on any part of the plants. i have checked all leaves on both sides.the spots are only seen on top of the leave, but i check both sides. these spots appeared first on older fan leaves, from bottom up. the plants have shown cal and mag def since i grow in unbuffered coco and wasn't supplementing. i considered it could be cal def but the plants look overal ok and the spots don't look like other cal defs i've had... the spots are tiny and whitish to naked eye.. cal usually has bigger spots that look rusty/brown.
i don't spray anything, all water is slowly poured on the top of the coco.

How many leaves are affected. Looks to be just normal coloring unless it's everywhere. Then you may need to worry. No one is perfect so the same goes with plants.

almost all big fan leave, and the leaves of newer lower branches.
 
this was happening on two of my plants. the one which displayed it worse was sent to another home last night. the other is still with me and i feel more dots appeared since the other plant left.
I keep searching and find nothin walking around. i use a 60 x scope even and nothing. Maybe I found one leaf that has something that might be an egg?
here are some picture of the plant and the leaf that seems to have an egg and the possible egg. if this is an egg, i found three similar in the other plant, so i guess it's good i dispatched it, and the remaining plant is meant to go to friends house as well so no too worried if it does have mites but woudl rather give it to my friend knowing if it has or not.

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You have not posted any pix from underneath.
I'm dealing with aphids now I think. Here is a pic for comparison, not best quality but that's what I got. I am going to get some sevin, a very knowledgeable member of this forum suggested it :D
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You have not posted any pix from underneath.
I'm dealing with aphids now I think. Here is a pic for comparison, not best quality but that's what I got. I am going to get some sevin, a very knowledgeable member of this forum suggested it :D
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thanks for the tip!

btw, the zoomed picture (of the Egg?) is from underneath using a 60x scope.
here are two pictures of the same leaf underneath without the scope.
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You have not posted any pix from underneath.
I'm dealing with aphids now I think. Here is a pic for comparison, not best quality but that's what I got. I am going to get some sevin, a very knowledgeable member of this forum suggested it :D

@karlkuttavonkrau Those are two-spotted spider mites! damage, webbing and I can see the mites and eggs. You will want to nip those little shits in the bud asap!! (pardon the pun) as they can take out your crop in three days.
Look up best treatments, you need to cycle them as the mites get resistance very fast.
@elcoloan That speckling and possible egg now does look a bit like mites, you want to monitor very close. Pyrethrin, End All II, Bug-B-Gone, I've sprayed with a diluted mix of ISO & water (desiccated the mites and eggs), squash anything by hand even. Remove any damaged leaves so if new damage shows up you know it's new.
I had good luck using predatory mites as well.
 
:toke: This is so early and mild, I can't say for sure if it's Ca defc. but given what you said, I'd say it's more than likely,... If you're confident in your hunting tops and undersides of leaves for vermins, then a more remote possibility is a pest that's more mobile, like thrips; they usually hit top sides of leaves, and some of the specks kinda look like the damage they cause, but not all,... A low level infestation is possible, so keep watching very closely meantime, and a treatment with something wouldn't hurt... Are you stateside? It comes down to what you can get....
Oh, on the leaves, sometimes the sessile and bulbous trichomes can look a lot like eggs! These are everywhere on the plant, at all times, BTW...

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