wtf plant looks like haunted house

alaskachic

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Well it happened. Spider mites I think. Little bastards spun their evil last night. Found eggs & web only on one plant. Damn it. I in week 5 flower almost done. Will the bud be OK? Waiting for hydrostore to open. Trichs almost milky too. All I can say is if I can't smoke it, I make into hash. Any help is totally appreciate. Have a great day!
 

$bkbbudz$

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There is so much information on spider mites available on this site and the www as a whole...you would think the little fuckers have somehow infested the internet as well. The answer to your question is easily found in moments. Google and RIU's search features are your friends. But, since you asked...

Spider Mites attack the leaf of the marijuana plant, sucking life-giving sap from plants, causing overall vigor loss and growth stunting. The first thing you notice is the yellow foliage and if its been long enough you will notice webbing around the leaves. The leaves are pocked with suck-hole marks and yellow from failure to produce chlorophyll. The plants lose anywhere from 1%-100% function, which causes the leaves to turn yellow and wilt. Once adult mites have produced eggs and the mite populations have spread, you will most likely need to throw away all plants in the garden or take a high risk of losing your entire harvest. Even if you salvage some of the plants for harvest, you will end up with bug filled buds that are not healthy to smoke.

^^^Copied and pasted from here: http://theweedscene.com/spider-mites/

BTW...can you post a pic of the entire plant?
 
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alaskachic

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OK I so close to harvest can I just chop? Are all the buds infected?UOTE="$bkbbudz$, post: 12762697, member: 895939"]Spider Mites attack the leaf of the marijuana plant, sucking life-giving sap from plants, causing overall vigor loss and growth stunting. The first thing you notice is the yellow foliage and if its been long enough you will notice webbing around the leaves. The leaves are pocked with suck-hole marks and yellow from failure to produce chlorophyll. The plants lose anywhere from 1%-100% function, which causes the leaves to turn yellow and wilt. Once adult mites have produced eggs and the mite populations have spread, you will most likely need to throw away all plants in the garden or take a high risk of losing your entire harvest. Even if you savage some of the plants for harvest, you will end up with bug filled buds that are not healthy to smoke.[/QUOTE]
Ok
 

BM9AGS

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Hmm. I've only seen them take over the top of a plant. Never down low..... That's a new one
 

alaskachic

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Half trichs are cleat other half milky. Is the top buds infected? I don't see any in the calyxes on the top under the microscope
 

alaskachic

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OK shit I saw the little mofo crawling around under microscope. Can you fucking believe I just put my 3rd run in there only 3 days ago. Fuck. Now I have to spray all of them I guess. I cannot get any better pictsIMG_20160710_094618.jpg
 

drewby

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You have Spider Mites? YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!!! Unless you are diligent and work hard, the problem will not go away, your crop is doomed as one by one they fail and die.
As a Native American, proud of our heritage and ways in keeping with the environment, I give to you a method that is naturally harmonious, and pure. The method is so benign, you may use this method even during flowering - without a single harm to your precious plants.,,,,,"Now then, for all you fervent horticulturists..."

Spider mites are alive; you can make them dead. All life is fragile, but... "how do I kill the mites without hurting my crop?"

I will not use pesticides or harmful chemicals on my plants; thus, I have found an all-natural way to rid the infestations that sometimes occur. Curing your plants takes time and care, but you can rid your babies of the mini-spiders that suck your plant's life's blood.

Spiders have skin-like exoskeletons; the tissues are sensitive to change. Molecules soak though their pours, skin and orifices; thus, what may bother you - a giant living organism - might prove fatal to a spider the size of a pinhead. This is so when using a common group of proteins found in Nature. I will teach you how to naturally and inexpensively rid your plants of the dreaded spider mites.
:fire:The Habanera Pepper (sometimes pronounced Habenero) is the key ingredient in pepper spray. Once you make a batch of CALICLEAN you'll see why. One may buy habanera peppers in any vegetable section for about 6 dollars a pound. The peppers are light orange to dark red, and are about the size of a bic lighter when fully mature, most are half that size. Go buy a pound, now!!! If you have mites, time is of the essence.

NOTICE: The spray you make is not harmful to humans (hab peppers are an ingredient in all really good south of the border salsas), but irritating to mucus membranes and soft tissues, it will make you cough - as its like breathing chili powder, so use care.
 

drewby

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HERE IS WHAT TO DO

Making the Calicleaner

1.) Get a sauce pan - fill with one pint of water - put on lowest flame possible (do not boil !!!).
2.) Chop 4 -5 Habanera peppers fine. Chop open seeds and central membranes, as the power lies there.
3.) Simmer chopped peppers for 20 minutes - making sure not to boil (you will destroy the active proteins).
4.) When you put your head over the pan and the wispy-steam stings your eyes, the Calicleaner is ready.
5.) Pour the Calicleaner through a fine mesh strainer - a little fine grit is OK - let cool in a clean bowl.
6.) Pour room temperature contents in a mister spray bottle. Your are ready to apply.

HOW TO APPLY Calicleaner
1.) Put on gloves, and wear a mask, or at least put a bandana around your nose and mouth.
2.) Turn off all fans - you do not want this spray in your eyes!!!
3.) Spray the bottom of EVERY leaf - starting with the bottom leaves first, work up to the top.
4.) After the bottoms are done, hit the tops and the stems.
5.) Squirt liberally in new leaf pods - tightly wound new leaf growth (the small mites hide there).
6.) Get the heck out of the room till it clears.
7.) Repeat procedure with each plant.
8.) Spray the soil, the pots, and the floor or earth around the area to kill dropping mites and stop migration.
9.) Wash hands with soap and water when complete - the stuff will heat-up skin for 4 hours.
10.) DO NOT WORRY. Though the stuff is lethal to mites, the plants love it.
 

drewby

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Congratulations! You have successfully killed the mites that you sprayed - on contact!. Plus, the mites are thwarted in biting again as they get a lethal dose of hot mouth. Your plants should be turning green again with in half a day. Though the leaves are scarred, they will recover and work again - producing vital sugars for growth.

However, you are not done. Some mites will escape the spray, though you have killed 95% of them. Thus, you will have to do the spray again tomorrow. As a matter of fact you will have to spray every 2-3 days till you see no more mites - usually up to two weeks. SOME EGGS WILL HATCH!!! Thus a week after the first spray, do a super job again, the baby mites are likely out and about. Kill 'em right away.

Use your magnifying glass to inspect each plant carefully, when nothing moves and you see no more webs, your plants are clear. YEAH!!

Additional precautions: make sure your containers and pots do not touch, mites migrate. Clean your floors and equipment so live mites do not return (spray them down with Caliclean). Since no person can kill every living mite in their situation, eternal diligence is now part of the equation. One mite may turn into a million in a month.

Other helpful hints: wash your plants with clean water spray between sprayings, this cleans off dead mites and eggs, and refreshes the plant leaf compromised by the vampire sucking mites. Keep the room cool, 78 degrees to 68 degrees if possible during treatment. Mites hate the cold - thus weakened mites will drop dead. If lower leaves are infested with eggs and mites - cut them off! DO NOT LEAVE CUTTINGS NEARBY! Burn or bury your cuttings far away.

Spraying notes: Mites tend to collect where the leaves join at the nexus and overlap. If you can, lay your plants on-end or position upsidedown (be real careful) to make sure all undersides are sprayed. Cut off curled leaves where they collect. If you're a rich person you may make a full pound to ten gallons of water and dunk them - even better!!

The best part of using Calicleaner is you may use it always - even during flowering. As the solution is all natural, no one is harmed but the mites: "Nature to deal with Nature." Your money goes to a farmer not a chemical corporation.
 

BM9AGS

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Well can't tell much from that pic.... That bottom leaf sure looks like mites and if you identified it then I'm sorry.

You can beat them.....it will just take you going through every millimeter of your plants and squashing them with your fingers 1 by 1 then copious amounts of bug killer in soil and bottoms of leaves tops buds stems pots surrounding area. Everywhere
 

drewby

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https://www.rollitup.org/t/how-to-kill-spider-mites-100-naturally-no-chemicals.475307/

  1. Tip 1. Put your indoor plants in the bath. Use a plastic bag to cover the soil and spray the house plants with lukewarm water. Most of the plant pests will be washed away.
  2. Tip 2. Wait a week after spraying. Then apply Horticultural oil. This will help to treat the mites that are left.
  3. a vacuum can be used to go along in close to buds and will remove small pest with no harm to the plant
 

drewby

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Fuck it I'm calling the after hours line @ my hydrostore. I want to cut it All down now. Like right now
is not the end of the world go threw and kill them,,you said you are in week 5 I would not cut yet,,not sure what your strain is but I am growing Sour diesel,,it takes 77-88 days of flower on it if you cut early you will sacrifice your work and finished product ,,my 2 cents ,,the mites are a hic up in the road but ,,just kill them and keep growing be my advice
 
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