Help asap mites killing plants

Zootime

Zootime

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Well i have what i think are mites (very small white/yellowish bugs that can hop) they are feasting on my fan leaves!!!! and my fan leaves are turning yellow/crisping then dieing... the bugs havent touched the buds yet thankfully but i need to know if spraying my plants with neem oil will be ok?

The neem oil i have is not pure neem oil though, will this harm my plants?

Ingredients:
Sweet almond oil
Neem Oil
Bergamot
rosemary
Eucalyptus

Please tell me asap if this will be ok to spray on my fan leaves and will it kill the mites, thank you. :leaf:

P.S im 3 weeks into flower (auto's) will the plants survive without its fan leaves?
 
Viagro

Viagro

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That looks like a good organic mix. What's it called?

Take your plant outside and spry it with a hose (underside), or take it into the shower. Blast most of them away.



Check-out this thread:
Control Spider Mites...ORGANICALLY

I'd put a light in a window tonight, and when bugs gather, it will probably draw a few lacewings. Catch a couple and put them on your plant. They'll eat the problem.

(I didn't think mites could hop? Maybe something else...whatever they are, lacewings will eat them. Are they on the underside, only.)
 
Zootime

Zootime

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Its called a vogal neem oil, got it today. I have witnessed the mites to "jump" when i touch them with my nail but they are very tiny no bigger then the point of a fork. they are on both the top of the leaves and underneath, there is not many of them but i see more and more each day, so now i will spray them with this neem oil mix and hope for the best, since my plants are 3 weeks into flower i think it would be a bad idea to hose them now?

I also think i have a plant deficiency which is the cause of the leaves turning yellow/dieing, i hope i can find it before its too late.
 
Viagro

Viagro

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Maybe they're thrips? Mites stay underneath. Your product should control things.

Maybe your leaves should be turning color if you're nearing harvest? I wouldn't feed them at this point if
I were you. In fact, you might have nute burn from overfeeding. Are you going to flush?
 
Viagro

Viagro

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If they're thrips, you can use sticky traps. Probably get some where you got the oil.
 
Zootime

Zootime

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They could be thripe larvae since there too small to be full grown ones.



And i don't know whether i should flush or not? is it even possible to over feed when growing in organics? Almost all of my fan leaves are yellow/dead and the leaves around the buds are turning light green.
 
Viagro

Viagro

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Oh, I missed the hydro bit. But sure, you can overfeed hydroponically.

As plants mature, many strains have yellowing leaves. You are how close to harvest?

Sticky traps are still a good idea, I think. Couldn't hurt. But the bugs and the yellowing leaves could just be coincidental, and not related.

Put a couple of the bugs in a jar and go to a nursery, or where you bought the neem oil. Find out for sure what they are. You could track it down on-line.
 
Zootime

Zootime

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yeh i think its thrips and nute burn, possible N def on the plant to the left?

going to flush
 
Viagro

Viagro

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Zootime said:
Sorry, i ment organic soil... Here's some pics of one of the plants:

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Not at all, it was my mistake, I misread it somehow.

Looking at your pic, I don't think I'd do anything except maybe flush. My suspicion is overfeeding. I doubt giving them nutes at this point will do anything good, but don't take my word for it. It's just my opinion. But most trouble comes from too much tinkering, in my experience.

edit: I just noticed your mention that this is an auto strain. Which? Regardless, autos don't much like to be fed. They are notoriously that way...so maybe that's your problem. I'd flush, leave 'em be, and they might zoom on you.

Good Luck.
 
Nice Ol Bud

Nice Ol Bud

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Not mites, thrips. they eat it.
What you need are some tough ass lady bugs, its natural and their fucking raw.
Hoped I Helped.

-Nice Ol' Bud
 
Hayduke

Hayduke

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Mites will also walk on tops of leaves...they are just shy. Thrips larvae are soil bourne. You have more issues than the bugs. Burn or deficiency or most likely both. Yes you can burn organically...

But this pic is thrips damage...see the rasping trail??



for thrips sprinkle diatomaceous earth on soil surface for larvae and spray spinosad on leaves...done deal...but as for the yellow hopping insects...not thrips.

:leaf::peace::leaf:
 
Hayduke

Hayduke

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Nice Ol Bud said:
Not mites, thrips. they eat it.
What you need are some tough ass lady bugs, its natural and their fucking raw.
Hoped I Helped.

-Nice Ol' Bud
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Trust me a ladybug will starve with a thrip on the same leaf...they will eat them...but they must taste like cats.

:leaf::peace::leaf:
 
Zootime

Zootime

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Sorry, yellow hopping insects was a bad description, they are more like very small little brownish things. I can not use ladybugs as that would be a nightmare since my grow tent is in my bedroom where i sleep.
 
Zootime

Zootime

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Viagro said:
Not at all, it was my mistake, I misread it somehow.

Looking at your pic, I don't think I'd do anything except maybe flush. My suspicion is overfeeding. I doubt giving them nutes at this point will do anything good, but don't take my word for it. It's just my opinion. But most trouble comes from too much tinkering, in my experience.

edit: I just noticed your mention that this is an auto strain. Which? Regardless, autos don't much like to be fed. They are notoriously that way...so maybe that's your problem. I'd flush, leave 'em be, and they might zoom on you.

Good Luck.
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Dinafem auto haze & Dinafem Road runner.

Also should i flush when the soil is dry?
 
Hayduke

Hayduke

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Zootime said:
Sorry, yellow hopping insects was a bad description, they are more like very small little brownish things. I can not use ladybugs as that would be a nightmare since my grow tent is in my bedroom where i sleep.
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Well that sounds like spider mites...any pin size yellow dots on lower leaves? You also have thrips for sure. If you see them they are translucent and long. Look along leaf veins...they blend in well.

:leaf::peace::leaf:
 
Zootime

Zootime

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bad description again, the way you explained it basically sum's up the little creatures, some of them are darker than others though, and they like running running in the leaf veins.

I sprayed all the leaves with a high concentration of neem oil so i hope that kills this small infestation before it gets out of hand.
 
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