New Grower First grow with DIY kit

[jingo]

Sounds like they are probably thrips the white flying imps I think would be mostly on top of your soil and the lower part of your plant if you saw them at all.

Do they look like small maggots?

 

[jingo]

Whether or not you can spray is going to depend upon where you're at in flower and exactly what bugs they are. There are some relatively benign insecticides that you could use if their thrips.

 

[jingo]

Oh yeah, I saw you ask why would they attack just one plant and where would they come from? Thrips are famous for going after your weakest plant. And you almost always buy them in your potting soil. Or they come in from the outside which is unlikely if you're in a serious winter environment right now.

 

[jingo]

Yeah you have to ready to chop I'm go ahead and do it now. If they end up being thrips a product containing spinosad will do it. It will still kind of be a personal choice depending on where you at in flower.

 

[Eclectic Elle]

If 2 are ready chop them. What are you going to spray?

Soapy water. That's why I said I had washing-up liquid bottles ready. Language barrier LOL.

Sounds like they are probably thrips the white flying imps I think would be mostly on top of your soil and the lower part of your plant if you saw them at all.

Do they look like small maggots?

No they don't, they're clear rounded things. Deffo not maggoty.

Oh yeah, I saw you ask why would they attack just one plant and where would they come from? Thrips are famous for going after your weakest plant. And you almost always buy them in your potting soil. Or they come in from the outside which is unlikely if you're in a serious winter environment right now.

Potting soil is likeliest. This place doesn't do "winter environment", it's sub-tropical. I wouldn't have said this was my weakest plant at all, I'd have said the strongest because the other two had serious cal/mag deficiency. So I still think it's whitefly and not thrips.

I'm chopping the two which are pretty much ready. Then I'll spray the other two with the soapy water, and make sure it gets underneath the leaves. I have another, chemical, spray but I have trichomes on the Sweet Seeds with the yellow veins and I don't want to contaminate it with the chems. Fairy liquid isn't as bad, in my book!

 

[jingo]

Sounds like this is going to be something of a continuous issue for you. I imagine you're going to find the best way to deal with them over time in your environment. In my area we get thrips and root aphids in the potting soil from the hydro store. So I ended up switching to hydro and then eventually Coco. Even with the coco I get compressed Bales so I don't have to worry about bringing any bugs in, in my growing medium.

I like sm-90 as a wetting solution and as an insecticide. It has coriander oil and salicylic acid. Salicylic acid is a relatively mild hormone that helps stimulate a plant that's being attacked or having issues. Then the coriander oil is a good insecticidal soap.

I also like spinosad if you can get it in your area it's real good for soft-bodied pests. It's a bacteria that will break down within five days under high-intensity lights. As far as I know it hasn't been approved for use on cannabis in any state where it's legal. But, it's used in a lot of food crops and I think it's relatively safe for most stages of growth.

 

[Eclectic Elle]

Sounds like this is going to be something of a continuous issue for you. I imagine you're going to find the best way to deal with them over time in your environment. In my area we get thrips and root aphids in the potting soil from the hydro store. So I ended up switching to hydro and then eventually Coco. Even with the coco I get compressed Bales so I don't have to worry about bringing any bugs in, in my growing medium.

I like sm-90 as a wetting solution and as an insecticide. It has coriander oil and salicylic acid. Salicylic acid is a relatively mild hormone that helps stimulate a plant that's being attacked or having issues. Then the coriander oil is a good insecticidal soap.

I also like spinosad if you can get it in your area it's real good for soft-bodied pests. It's a bacteria that will break down within five days under high-intensity lights. As far as I know it hasn't been approved for use on cannabis in any state where it's legal. But, it's used in a lot of food crops and I think it's relatively safe for most stages of growth.

There won't be another grow in this environment, I'm going to hydro after this one.

The SM-90 sounds interesting, I'll look into that. But this grow was all about producing some weed on a barebones budget, so additional things at this late stage are pretty much ruled out. I don't have good availability of nutes and what there is is not in English and seems expensive as it usually comes in big bottles, which don't help me at all.

 

[jingo]

You may have trouble finding sm-90 then. But, I tell you what I started using that stuff in Hydro to keep from getting root rot. I like it a lot better than other things like food grade H2O2, res clear, that kind of stuff. Actually, you can use it for an insecticide a treatment for powdery mildew to prevent root rot I use it in every nutrient mix now that I'm growing in Coco. I don't own any stock in the company or anything like that[emoji6]

 

[Eclectic Elle]

Cheers dude, I like using plant based stuff to treat other plants, so I'll do some investigation.

 

[witchyhour]

Looks like bug damage at a glance..

I kinda thought so, too... [emoji53]

Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk