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Rockwool issues possible broads/tmv?

dutchmster

New member
Been growing for many years now, mostly successful but have problem that killed me last year.

Clone in easy cloner get great results.

The problem im having:

Once they hit the rockwool I've been getting funky things happening. Sometimes immediately, sometimes a couple weeks into veg. In the worst case plants will turn a bright yellow from the leaf stem and work outward to the tip. The top growth turns sideways and starts to spit out leafs that mimic that of broadmite / root aphid damage. Some leafs will hook left while others twist and overall growth is slow.

I've been in rockwool for years. I set plain water out for a couple days so it stabilizes at 5.5 then drop cubes in for an overnight soak. After planting I go back thru and give them all a 20oz cup of 400ppm sensi veg. and let them sit for about 9 days or until dry and continue a similar feed regimine.

Secondary but probably related issue:

First 12-14 days stuff looks super happy. Then the very tiniest new leaves getting spat out come out slightly cupped and growth stalls. 28 days in I have a decent flowerset going and around 35-40 days in (When the OG should, and usually did start packing it on there is just a flat out stall. I get hairs turning red consistently at day 42. Sometimes they all turn red then get new white ones popping in over the top of them.

For flower I use and have always used

2ml/g cal mag
7ml/g cannazyme
6-8ml/g sweet
top off with Sensi PHperfect base to anywhere between 6-1100

This has been a rock solid combo for me for a long time Up until now. Now my nugs get a good size but dry to a crisp in three to four days in a specialized dry room with proper RH.
That's my secondary problem.

I sacrificed a lady today so I had some images of roots.

This looks like a aphid/broadmite/tmv type of issue but I have a 150x celestron usb microscrope and have spent hours and hours trying to find something crawling but never saw anything. Sometimes Ill see a spot that has egg looking things but they also just look like trich heads (even tho its a vegging plant). I don't see the "easily identifiable spots".

Any help would be much appreciated.
 

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Kcar

There are FOUR lights!
Veteran
Bigger pics would be cool. Doesn't look like BM.
Maybe PHPerfect isn't. Changed your bulbs recently?
 

dutchmster

New member
Can someone please confirm these are dead broadmites? I've had thrips forever and am not sure if these are broads or are just young thrips.
 

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