Nutrient burn?

Killaki

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This is my first grow I think you are right. All the plants are getting it,just bumpted up the emerald harvest
I'd check under and on the leaves for pests and/or their eggs. Seeing little bugs flying around can be a dead give away.
 

Rurumo

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I would leave it, the plants look good other than like 2 leafs. You could always spray neem oil (5ml/liter water, plus surfactant) once per week for IPM, I'm a big fan of it. But otherwise, you have nothing to treat here until you actually see some bugs.
 

Killaki

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Have a ubs microscope comming today, what treatment would you recommend is the alcohol water one any good?
Make sure to take a careful look and confirm it's the actual problem. Not like we can definitely diagnose thrips, spider mites, ect just from one group shot photo. If you don't ever find pests it's probably time to explore other possibilities.
 

Chbronco

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I would leave it, the plants look good other than like 2 leafs. You could always spray neem oil (5ml/liter water, plus surfactant) once per week for IPM, I'm a big fan of it. But otherwise, you have nothing to treat here until you actually see some bugs.
Yes I am waiting for the Amazon usb microscope will be here today thanks for the info.
 

Killaki

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I found the buggers.What are they mites and what's the best (safest) way to get rid of them?
Yeah looks like spider mites to me. Sticky question though, tough to say. You can try a number of organic gardening techniques or sprays or powers. Like suggested above you could try Neem oil as a foliar spray, this works really well. You could try a mixture of baking soda, apple cider vinegar, and soap as a foliar spray as well but this isn't the best solution for something that can get pretty out of hand, imo. Ladybugs, predator mites, both of those may work from what I've read, I cannot speak to this from personal experience though. You could try researching spider mite treatments before making up your mind.
 

UpstateRecGrower

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Throw the neem oil in the trash where it belongs. If you want a safe alternative try purecrop1 or plant therapy (which ever one you can buy the most easily). If you want a one and done chemical option its called Avid and Forbid, some people will cry and be mad at you but you will never see a spider mite again.. spider mites that you can see with the naked eye are so easy to kill..
 

UpstateRecGrower

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If you already have those than go ahead and use them, mites are pretty easy to kill, you just have to beat the life cycle, so if you spray all the leaves and kill all the adults you're going to have eggs hatch, you want to kill those new mites before they reproduce and make more eggs or you never get ride of them. If you had pure crop you could spray daily, idk if those oil's can be sprayed that often..
 
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