Possibly Broad Mites Curly Half Leaf problemo!

[ksmirov]

What type of medium; soil or hydro? Soil
What brand and type of soil? FFOF
Indoors or outdoors? Indoor Closet
What strain? White Widow and Blue Cheese
How old are the plants? 5 days into Flowering
What type of lights and how many watts? 600W HPS aircooled
How far from the lights? 14 Inches
What is your watering frequency and source of water? 3-4 days
What, how much and when was it fed? NPK? 1/2 Strength of Big Bloom and Grow Big, FF Open Sesame, 3ml CalMag, and 1 tbsp of Molasses
What is the medium/runoff pH and PPM if in hydro? 5.0
What are the temps and humidity in the room? 81-84F and 35-45% RH
What size pots? 5 gallon Smart Pots
Any bugs? Look real close. Not that I see
Any other pertinent info? Flushed a week before going into flowering and have been doing pretty well afterwards.



It happens only on one plant of mine and maybe on like 4 leaves, top leaves. It doesn't curl up or down but it curls sideways and only half of the portion of the leaf.

Ive been thinking it could be broad mites or it might be my soil ph runoff being 5.0?

Any thoughts?

 

[Green81]

Looks like the wrong ph, correct to 5.8 and flush all your plants, you should see new growth in 2 days time.

Peace

G81

 

[ksmirov]

OKies, but do u mean 6.5 ph? Im growing in soil.

 

[Green81]

Correction , your right 6.5-7.0 ph

 

[RetroGrow]

You cannot see broad mites without a scope. Don't wait to check for them. You don't want them to spread if it is BMs. Get a 100X scope to confirm, in case it's not PH related. If it's BMs, you will see eggs under the leaves, but only with a scope. Hopefully it's PH related, but you should have a scope in your arsenal anyway. A cheap one is only $10 @ Radio Shack or amazon. That leaf curl is typical of BMs.

 

[homero]

is it the blue cheese?

 

[ksmirov]

You cannot see broad mites without a scope. Don't wait to check for them. You don't want them to spread if it is BMs. Get a 100X scope to confirm, in case it's not PH related. If it's BMs, you will see eggs under the leaves, but only with a scope. Hopefully it's PH related, but you should have a scope in your arsenal anyway. A cheap one is only $10 @ Radio Shack or amazon. That leaf curl is typical of BMs.

Yea imma head to radioshack asap tommorrow to get one and see if them fuckers are there. crosses my fingers

Actually its the White Widow not the blue cheese. Blue Cheese is doing very very good imo.

 

[ksmirov]

Little Update

I got one of those $13 Radio Shack 60x - 100x microscopes and looking underneath prolly 10 leaves from top to bottom. I know that Broad mite eggs look like a turtle shell with little dots in them, kinda like little domes.

I have yet to find any of them. There are some white dots that look like microscopic water drops, but I stared at them long enough and didn't see them move or have any legs.

I heard the male broad mites are pretty busy, but I have not seen any thing move under the scope.

Other thing Ive heard that it could be was Tobacco Mosiac Virus?

 

[RetroGrow]

Cyclamen mite eggs don't have the little bumps on them. Could be what you are seeing, or it could be tiny microscopic trichomes. Google for pictures of cyclamen mite eggs. Broad/cyclamen mites are difficult to see even if you do have them and can see eggs. They hide very well, and are hard to see with a cheap scope. However, the eggs are easily seen. Look underneath damaged looking leaves. Broad/cyclamen mites are often mistaken for TMV. If you think you have TMV, you probably have broads.
Plants will usually outgrow TMV without any damage.

 

[caredrivensf]

you have tobacco mosaic virus player

 

[RetroGrow]

you have tobacco mosaic virus player

That can ONLY be determined by a test.

 

[caredrivensf]

That can ONLY be determined by a test.

true. I did notice tht the PH of your runoff is 5.0 which is really low!!! you gotta fix that first of all. Could be because you have broad mites and they are messing with your plants metabolism and your plant is not eating all its food. Thats my guess as to why your PH is so low and also why you have the symptoms you have