White little specks on leaves that blow off easily

hello, super noob here.

First time grow, just a bit curious as to what I'm dealing with.

Plants are 18 days old from seed, and look relatively healthy.

Couple days ago I noticed these little white dots on some of the leaves, they don't look like a type of spider mite/aphid, just curious as to what it may be. They easily blow off if I blow on the leaves lightly, but idk. They've ended up on the underside of the leaves before, but not clustered, not many of them and they easily come off? Not ALL of the leaves have these specks and there are so few of them. Any help matters.

Is there shit being blown around your grow area by fans ???

No. Just have a small clip on fan pointed slightly away from the plants. Don't have my exhaust going yet because of cold temps in general.

turn the lights off so we can see something other than purple/violate

and give us a picture of the entire plant

it looks like it might be spider mites

id spray with some azamax or neem oil asap just to keep them knocked down

but id like to see the entire plant... I think I might see something else also but cant tell with the lights on

if it is spider mites
the good news is you've got time to correct it since your in veg
the bad news is spider mites are insanely difficult to remedy with out harsh chems

but since your early you would have time for the chems to run there course and leave the plant

Im sure there are organic options that maybe some have had success with..personally I have not had success remedying mites using organic options perhaps someone else has better luck with it and they could advise you

the organic options I tried did slow them down but never really completely got rid of them

floramite is a FOR SURE option if you are ok with the chems.. but be aware its normally used on non edible plants!
only because its in early veg you might consider its use less toxic since the plant will live long enough after use for it to MOSTLY clear itself before you consume it
I believe its approved for certain nuts and a few other things but not approved for most fruit crops

if you are a person with medical issues or plan to provide your pot to someone with immune issues you may choose to avoid it all together and find a safer option

Spider mites aren't white. Looks like something that's blown on them from your room, wouldn't worry about it unless you see it more and more.

westcoast420 said:

Spider mites aren't white. Looks like something that's blown on them from your room, wouldn't worry about it unless you see it more and more.

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Yeah I'm not too worried atm, was only curious. I do see little particles in the air above the light at a certain angle sometimes so it's possible it could be just a particle. But I also have other issues that I'm attempting to resolve. Have a little bit of edge cupping on some of the leaves on a smaller plant. Raised my light a bit and it seemed to help but not too much

Oh and btw, sterilized the fuck out of the tent a day prior to starting.

im4satori said:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=spider+mites+white+spots&view=detailv2&&id=FF549F1F79F000003CA929AE1840EF79FCE0746F&selectedIndex=0&ccid=3C4j8bUu&simid=607986432049086862&thid=OIP.Mdc2e23f1b52eddf88b247b9781fecf4do0&ajaxhist=0

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I know what the borg look like, ive battled them many times over the last 10+ years! And floramite works but not a for sure, some mites are becoming resistant to that now. My mites would feed off floramite now! Shuttle and pylon are great newer miticides.

westcoast420 said:

I know what the borg look like, ive battled them many times over the last 10+ years! And floramite works but not a for sure, some mites are becoming resistant to that now. My mites would feed off floramite now! Shuttle and pylon are great newer miticides.

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Eh, wouldn't say it looks like the picture you described with, not on that big of scale even, just a few particle looking white dots here and there

dust particles.

look under the leaf, if there's a spidermites infestation, you will find them there. but this looks like dust to me.

best way would be to check with a scope, then you'll know for sure.

Don't look like spider mites, get a scope and that will solve it, you'll see them crawling around if they are mites