Broad Mites are Real!!!

[Kcar]

Wholly Shit! I thought people were making this up. Until I noticed some deficiencys in a few clones. Rippled leaves, tacoing. Chalked it up to the strain and went on with life.
Then today I was making a tray and noticed the same thing on some cuts I recently got from a local dispensary. GSC, Tahoe OG, and Harlequin.
Went back and checked the clones in the tray, and matched them to their mothers. Same thing.

Broke out the digital microscope and this is what I saw...

 

[Kcar]

 

[Treetroit City]

I think you're making this up.

 

[Kcar]

No, really! Lol. So after treating everything, with the sun going down, I took some
samples of the purple nightshade just outside my shed. Friken loaded with mites.
Though they looked like a different strain, it may have just been environmental.

So out came the chainsaw and by by one giant purple nightshade.

 

[Kcar]

Here's one with a broke open egg

 

[unitedgrooves]

that's sucks.. What did you treat them with? what kind of scope at what zoom setting did you take those pics at?

Good luck with those, I hope you kill those fuckers for good..

 

[Dorky]

Reading FTW again


lol at you

there is a reason threads become sticky's

Wholly Shit! I thought people were making this up. Until I noticed some deficiencys in a few clones. Rippled leaves, tacoing. Chalked it up to the strain and went on with life.
Then today I was making a tray and noticed the same thing on some cuts I recently got from a local dispensary. GSC, Tahoe OG, and Harlequin.
Went back and checked the clones in the tray, and matched them to their mothers. Same thing.

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Broke out the digital microscope and this is what I saw...

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[Kcar]

that's sucks.. What did you treat them with? what kind of scope at what zoom setting did you take those pics at?

Good luck with those, I hope you kill those fuckers for good..

Since they're all in veg, went with a nuclear bomb cocktail.
That's 380x with a Veho digital microscope.

 

[Kcar]

Reading FTW again


lol at you

there is a reason threads become sticky's

Say what? Atleast your name fits.

 

[Phillthy]

definitely broad mites. easier to rid than regular spider mites IMO. Avid/Forbid FTW.

 

[eric2028]

do u guys use a wetting agent with the forbid or avid?

 

[loyalty7]

i dont use a wetting agent...broad mites will be gone with an application or two.

 

[eric2028]

ive already did 2 or 3 applications but about 2 weeks apart. reading that i might want to try it about 5 days apart instead.

 

[the gnome]

there is a reason threads become sticky's

 

[Kcar]

While I get that, They're very few pics of broad mites
due to their small size. Without being able to see them without help,
people may have diagnosed a deficiency rather than a bug attack.

 

[ghostly]

I've gotten some sick ass clones from DHN the last few times, so I took the last trays I picked up directly to the lab we have in town....

Not only did they have several RA species but had spider mites living in the rock wool. Not the leaves, the roots!

 

[medicalmj]

Holy broad mites! Thanks for putting up the pics!

If you have the money, or if lots money is at stake I recommend Pylon. Absolutely 100% best miticide on the market that you can use on veggies. $450 per pint, makes 300 gallons tho. There's a couple online stores that'll sell it to ya.

It's a translaminar so if you have lots of plants you only need to get on top side of leaves for it to kill em, making life much easier for the applicator.

 

[medicalmj]

Not only did they have several RA species but had spider mites living in the rock wool. Not the leaves, the roots!

Those were more than likely a species of Astigmatid or Oribatid mite. The Histiostomatidae is adapted to an aquatic environment like RW cube. They live off algae (common on RW), fungus, bacteria, decaying matter, but not roots. So they're not harmful. Could be an indicator that you have dead roots, pythium, algae, or perhaps beneficial bacteria and fungus (they love to eat that too).

I've had these mites for some time now, and I can say they are not harmful at all.

The RA's on the other...