tiny white crawlers on plants... what is it???

[pftek]

really tiny little white things crawling around on leaves.

i also see black dots on the leaf as well.

 

[BPJR]

Got a photo? Might help identify the problem

 

[pftek]

Got a photo? Might help identify the problem

tried... they are too tiny for my camera.

they are about a mm in length. thin.

 

[Blueshark]

If you can see some small webs as well, then my friend you have spider mites.....

 

[High Country]

This is what you don't want to see.

SPIDER MITES AKA THE BORG

 

[smokefrogg]

whitefly larvae?

i have seen a few tiny little white crawlers on mine, there are also tiny eggs on the underside of some mostly lower leaves, if you shake or blow into the plant 1 or 2 little white flies take off

i've quarantined the effected plants, spray the crap out of them with neem, wait a few days and do it again, i ran out of neem and am now using spinosad based stuff, it seems to be doing the trick

start getting it under control now, if you lag on it you could very quickly have a much larger problem on your hands

 

[Hackk]

Im gonna say thrips

 

[pftek]

Im gonna say thrips

i think it's thrips...

in the 6th week of flowering... what do I do???

help!

also tons of little black dots all over the leaves. they don't really come off when i rub. the leaves are brittle.

 

[newhiddengrower]

get Azamax!!!! its the best!

 

[MrBlue2]

if you shake your plant, and you have thrips, you will be able to see adult thrips fly off your plant. thrips prefer to fly in an attempt to escape. spider mights and aphids wont fly. the white things are probably juvinile thrips. the black dots are thrip poo. thrips breed in soil, so make sure you get rid of any old dirt or pots that may be laying around. try to keep your room clean, pest breed in dirt and dead plant matter that may be laying around.

I got rid of thrips by treating my soil with beneficial nematodes. it was cheap and easy.

 

[Squire5683]

Do you have a magnifying glass or something you can look closely with? If they look like little worms, then they are thrips. I just went through this. I sprayed Azamax and they were gone. If they are thrips, youre too far into flowering to treat. They wont hurt much, just finish flowering, if you treat, you will have a nasty funk to your bud. Theyre eating little bastards, but they dont do much to harm outcome. Google 'Thrips' and hit 'Images' you can see them and what they do.... Good luck

 

[JTDuffet]

sounds like thrips already as others have said. i have used azamax on my vegging plants and it really hurt them a bit with only 2 applications. i ended up having to kill all plants and clone them and i did manage to rid myself of them.. took some effort though with attention not to cross contaminate them again..

you can't do much,,, id suggest as others have said, put white paper taped together under each plant, shake em good and kill all the bugs that fall off. you will have to live with them unfortunately unless you want buds that taste weird...

-jt

 

[yesum]

I had the same thing, sprayed neem 2 times and kinda knocked them out. I am gonna spray this grow before I see them, prevention.

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

thrips was my guess, black dots=poop

 

[pftek]

I had the same thing, sprayed neem 2 times and kinda knocked them out. I am gonna spray this grow before I see them, prevention.

will neem oil affect the outcome? safe to spray on flowering plants???

 

[pftek]

if you shake your plant, and you have thrips, you will be able to see adult thrips fly off your plant. thrips prefer to fly in an attempt to escape. spider mights and aphids wont fly. the white things are probably juvinile thrips. the black dots are thrip poo. thrips breed in soil, so make sure you get rid of any old dirt or pots that may be laying around. try to keep your room clean, pest breed in dirt and dead plant matter that may be laying around.

I got rid of thrips by treating my soil with beneficial nematodes. it was cheap and easy.

all DWC... no soil at all.

nothing flying. just little worm like creatures. tons of them. i saw a dozen just crawling around.... damn.. it.

how much damage will they end up doing?

 

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[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

spray SPINOSAD, it is SAFE, it a bacteria that kills thrips. One application does it, two to be safe. Works great, safe for you, safe for your plants.

 

[MrBlue2]

If you neem now, your buds will taste like neem after harvest. use ladybugs and sticky traps for now. smeer tangle foot around your stems in several places. if they cant fly the tangle foot will help contain and catch them. at this point you are trying to keep the population in check until you harvest.

also pictures of damaged leaves might help us identify the pest responsible.

 

[pftek]

spray SPINOSAD, it is SAFE, it a bacteria that kills thrips. One application does it, two to be safe. Works great, safe for you, safe for your plants.

got some spinosad.

do i just spray the plant or do i have to spray the underside directly??