Russet mites????

Saw a few spots on my leaves inspected underneath and saw these little fuckers... not a lot so I cut off all the lower branches that seemed to be affected few weeks to go don't want to go and start spraying with all kinds of crap of o don't need to... only see a very few now so I've been smashing them as I see them.

Use a nuclear warhead to get rid of those. And then napalm.

Alienwidow said:

Use a nuclear warhead to get rid of those. And then napalm.

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That is what they are then?

I dunno, ive never had them, ive only heard about them. Those look like thrips to me but smaller. What kind of damage are they doing to the plants. I thought russets kill the new growth on tops but im not sure. Thrips chew long strips out of leaves and hide in leaf veins wiggling like snakes when you poke em.

They are chewing right up the center vein mostly and they curl up when poked I may be lucky here just read russet mites are 4 legged and it looks like these are 6 legged.I'll get some damage pics later but here's what the top of the leaves looked like the other day

Oooooooooo...lookin like thrips. Congratulations lol. Thrips die easy. I hope theyre thrips and not russets.

Spinosad for thrips.

Awesome thanks is that safe to spray a few weeks before harvest or should I just ride it out and scrub the room down when the run Is over?

Pat1341 said:

Awesome thanks is that safe to spray a few weeks before harvest or should I just ride it out and scrub the room down when the run Is over?

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Id wash my leaves individualy and ride it out.

The the big ones, not sugar leaf. I always got lucky with thrips and they were in veg.

Pat1341 said:

Awesome thanks is that safe to spray a few weeks before harvest or should I just ride it out and scrub the room down when the run Is over?

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that close to harvest, don't bother. spinosad is just a bacterium, but I'm not sure what other chems may be hiding in that Dow product, read the fine print. Get your soil out of there asap when you're done, thrip larvae are nasty and reproduce in the soil.

abe supercro said:

that close to harvest, don't bother. spinosad is just a bacterium, but I'm not sure what other chems may be hiding in that Dow product, read the fine print. Get your soil out of there asap when you're done, thrip larvae are nasty and reproduce in the soil.

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Okay cool I'm going to wait to put anything else in there until I harvest and clean everything out bleach the room and I'm probably going to just throw out the 1/2 bale of promix I have left in a different room. Fresh start ahead, thanks everyone

Pat1341 said:

Okay cool I'm going to wait to put anything else in there until I harvest and clean everything out bleach the room and I'm probably going to just throw out the 1/2 bale of promix I have left in a different room. Fresh start ahead, thanks everyone

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Good idea. Treat the veg room at the same time. Even if you dont see signs they could still be there.