New Grower Please help! White dots

[Junkie8001]

This is my second grow and ive seem to have run into a problem. about 2 days ago i had to put my plants outside for approximately 7 hours and i'm afraid they have now developed mites or something. when they were brought in they received a watering and i gave them a bit more of a heavy feeding than normal, so im praying that has something to do with it, but deep down i dont think it does. I tried to look with my microscope and i see little black specs on the top of some leaves, however i didnt see anything moving so am hoping its just debris from being outside.



Any help is greatly appreciated

 

[astronomy420a]

it looks like mite,s but you have a microscope if it is mite's they will be on the underside of the leaf, cut the worst leaf and look at the underside in bright light with your micro......good luck.

 

[Junkie8001]

Ugh that's what I was fearing. I'll have to do that when I get home. If it is mites, what's my best approach to be taking to save my crop

 

[Junkie8001]

Is that much damage common in a matter of two days?

 

[astronomy420a]

i am afraid so, you can have web's covering your plant's within three day's treat your plant's (if it is mite's) with alternating remedeies, like neem oil and
another organic substance of your choice. do a spray every three or four day's alternating product's. mite's will build a tolerance for any one product, so alternating will be more effective. there are various product's you can buy cheap on amazon, just stick with organic products.

 

[Junkie8001]

Could you suggest another product commonly available? I won't have time to order online

 

[Bed]

Dude, I wouldn't trip on it. If thy leaf offends thee eye, cut it off. Ya ain't gonna kill nor injure the plant by removing the leaf.

Mites look like mites---tiny specks or white cotton-ish dots. That less-than-green colour leaf doesn't look like it has mites. Looks more like a nutritional thing---but even still I wouldn't trip. It's truly rare to not end up with some wonky leaves on a plant. It usually does not mean trouble or loss. If you are ever scared of any kind of wonky/freaky looking/yellowing/disfigured/weirdo leaf, then cut it off. Doing this will not put your plant into jeopardy.

Variegated leaves...I have had plants whose leaves looked like the ones you're concerned about. The plants went on to finish for a successful harvest. As I recall I did not use nutrients on those plants and certainly didn't start when some of the leaves became variegated.

There is probably a nutritional reason for it, but as I said, it did not keep the plant from finishing successfully. Perhaps one of the nute-experts here at AFN will shed some light on it.

Just curious, why did you give it a heavy feeding? And what does that mean? You gave it more than the recommended dose?

Good looking plants ya got there!

 

[astronomy420a]

[video]http://www.amazon.com/Safer-Brand-Insect-Killing-Soap/dp/B000BQL8UY/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1374875753&sr=8-10&keywords=mite+killer[/video] here is another, there are dozen's at your local greenhouse.

 

[Junkie8001]

My nutrients say 2tsp per gallon for light feeding and 4 for a heavy feeding. I was a couple days behind on feeding so I have them more than 2 tsp (which is what I would do till they are a bit bigger. I'm using organic nutrients and from my understanding it's hard to give them nutrient burn using organic nutrients. Unless you mean they are lacking something (they also receive cal-mag and molasses) I worry because they aren't looking very happy today as compared to a couple days ago.

In the event they are mites, isn't that deadly to a crop? Shouldn't if be felt with ASAP?

Thanks for the help guys =)

 

[Bed]

My nutrients say 2tsp per gallon for light feeding and 4 for a heavy feeding. I was a couple days behind on feeding so I have them more than 2 tsp (which is what I would do till they are a bit bigger. I'm using organic nutrients and from my understanding it's hard to give them nutrient burn using organic nutrients. Unless you mean they are lacking something (they also receive cal-mag and molasses) I worry because they aren't looking very happy today as compared to a couple days ago.

In the event they are mites, isn't that deadly to a crop? Shouldn't if be felt with ASAP?

Thanks for the help guys =)

I dare you to find a photo of a cannabis plant devastated & destroyed by mites. I am not saying it doesn't exist, but I have never seen one. I have had mites on my outdoor crops and they have always only been on a couple of leaves---which I promptly removed.

I have noticed when you move an indoor plant to outdoors some of its leaves can get weird like yours...I think it is reacting to some part of the sunlight that is not in the artificial lighting. It's like the sunlight has caused the plant to reveal that it either has too much or too little of a particular nutrient. But if it were me, I wouldn't trip. I wouldn't add anything to the mix. If anything, I wouldn't feed them with their next few waterings.

What are your indoor lights? CFL/LED/HPS/MH? How many watts? How many hours do you run them per day? How close to the tops are they?

And why did they have to be chucked outdoors for 7 hours?

I personally don't feed my plants every time I water them. They don't need constant feeding. They are not junkies. They will not go downhill if you stop feeding them. They only need feeding a few times throughout their lives. Otherwise you run the risk of nute-burn or nute-imbalance even with organic fertilizers.

Still, all that said, marijuana plants are strong, weed-like mutherfuckers.
I reckon the most common causes of death or shit-bud are dehydration-by-neglect, root-rot (from over-watering), nute burn, and bud-mould. 3 out of 4 of those are preventable. Bud-mould is caused by cold, damp conditions...usually in the Autumn...like November...I am presently quite stoned...