Something's eating my plant!

maps84

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I haven't seen any insect flying or crawling around at my flower room yet, however I did find what it seemed to be small circular golden/brownish cocoons, like little eggs sticked under the branches, I hand picked all of them like 20 in total. Yesterday what I assume is this freaking bug raided my sensi star and left her looking pretty bad. please take a look and help me figure out a solution. Thanks:!:




 

cannabutt

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that looks like tiny caterpillar damage to me and sounds like it with what you say. look under the leaves for eggs. and look out for tiny green wrigglers.
did you get a pic of those cocoons?
 

maps84

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yes... there are tiny little balls sticked under the leaves, I cannot say if they are eggs ore insects need to take it to a lab to see it through a microscope... Another fact is that they're not all of the same color, they go from clear to ambar .... as wtf as it sounds..
 

cannabutt

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I'll try to find more of those eggs, if they are eating they're humping in my crop.. the thing that worries me is that 8 of the 9 plants I have flowering are showing at least light signs of this.
yea just keep looking for them. if it is caterpillars? they usually come from moths that found your plant, then they lay eggs on your leaves, the eggs hatch then eat your nice plant. then they make cocoons any grow wings and the cycle starts again :( they don't get to hump until they can fly :lol:

you noticed early so your winning, check them all really well :leaf:
 

cannabutt

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yes... there are tiny little balls sticked under the leaves, I cannot say if they are eggs ore insects need to take it to a lab to see it through a microscope... Another fact is that they're not all of the same color, they go from clear to ambar .... as wtf as it sounds..
right you have eggs. tiny round things laid with perfection? you need to get them off the leaves before they hatch. scrape them off with a spoon and paper towel and squash them.
 

maps84

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I completely cleaned the room with an industrial mix. Took all the plants out and heavy sprayed each one of them with water mixed with a tad of dishwasher soup, then I used plain water to remove the excess. I hand dried each leave and branch with paper towel on both sides checking for more eggs signs--- Egg count is around 10 at the moment, plus 2 death ugly flies.

Either way they liked the shower and look all plastic and somehow greener.. about the outcome It's 2 hours into the dark cycle right now, I did a reckon round and didn't find anything. I'll check again for bug signs 6 hours into the cycle, and then again right before the light goes on.

Thanks for the help, I'll post later
 
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