Leaf damage in week 3.5 of flowering.... I'm crushed at my findings.

So heres the deal... I noticed what looked like little yellow spots showing up... I figured it was mold or mildew so I added fans and called it a day... Now the leaves are starting to look very sick and its spreading rapidly. At this point I cut some of the damaged leaves off and started looking closely. I found a verry very small peice of shit bug crawling around on the underside of my fan leaves.
The bug is super small white/translucent no spots or dots on it... I was thinking its a spider mite but I wanted confirmation and perhaps some advice. I was looking into it and it seems as if my only option is to spray the underside of all the leaves (this is going to suck ass because I don't want to fuck up my nice looking buds with pesticide and also they have about a million leaves, thats a shitload of spraying) Any advice would be nice i'm taking action tomorrow. Will neem oil put a bad taste on my buds? This is so gay...

Oh, and do I need to spray the soil as well ? or just the leaves?

And I hear that they sometimes make web.. what does that look like?

Ok so I just got me some floramite spidercide/miticide but its gonna take a while to get it in the mail... what should I do to hit them tomorrow? my local place carries "Doktor doom spidermite knockout" any ideas on that? I'm so pissed of at these little fuckers...

Hmm that looks like a Nitrogen deficiency to me which is very common few weeks into budding. The little brown dots look like a calcium deficiency to me. Spider mites will leave little web's on your leaves and stems check for those. There also usually if not always red since there so tiny they appear to be black tho. But there not white/translucent. Do they jump? If so then it's probably springtails, no real threat if they are. However you do need to identify them before you take action.

Also if you do decide to spray something on them dont use the floramite spidercide/miticid no point of putting that crap on your ladys. Looks up Pepper sprays or even tobacco sprays both a lot healthier for the plant then straight chemicals dont get me wrong i still use sprays like avid and such and that shits no joke. But ONLY if i really have to. No other way around it.

that doesnt look like mites to me.. i would say either over watering or overdose flush your plants and give a dose of N for a day or so b4 going back to normal feed

Yeah I did burn the shit out of them, they just got worse and worse so I flushed today. I thought that nute burn worked from the bottom up. But thats cool if it is nute related but what the hell was that tiny bug under my leaf then... it didn't jump but I did see a springtail in my tent a few weeks ago. it was much bigger then this new bug and it was in the soil. I just cut off some sick looking leaves and inspected them for bugs but came up with nothing, so now i'm just confused...

Also my coletrain is starting to yellow at the top near the lights, is this nute related?

molasses might help

sirmonkeyass said:

Yeah I did burn the shit out of them, they just got worse and worse so I flushed today. I thought that nute burn worked from the bottom up. But thats cool if it is nute related but what the hell was that tiny bug under my leaf then... it didn't jump but I did see a springtail in my tent a few weeks ago. it was much bigger then this new bug and it was in the soil. I just cut off some sick looking leaves and inspected them for bugs but came up with nothing, so now i'm just confused...

Also my coletrain is starting to yellow at the top near the lights, is this nute related?

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Raise your lights your light bleaching the flower out.

god I love this forum... Thanks guys.

Np