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[F.N.]

I’m using 1 part. 15g of MC and 5g of BE in 5gal of water currently.

I would switch to spring water and see if that help before changing my regiment.

 

[F.N.]

@F.N. have you got a microscope you use with your plants? I'm looking at that last photo above, the one with the curled up leaf edges and I started itching and cringing. That is one of the telltale signs of hemp russet mites and trust me I've been battling those things now for 18 months and have not been able to completely eradicate them only keep them in check.

I know there can be other causes for the "canoe" symptoms but please check the bottoms of a couple of those leaves please just to make sure. They are microscopic and look like this. Not a great picture but you'll get the idea how small these things are.
View media item 24571 I hope your problem is just heat or light stress and not these F*^*&**

I do believe it is heat stress but I will definitely check thanks for the heads up and that tent is not usually that dirty I cropped allot and it is going after this run time for a new one. The floors are toast they can only take so much lol.

 

[YoungGrassh0pper]

Yep. I agree..the 'canoe" shape on the top leaves is indicative of excessive dissolved solids. I bet that 250 ppm tap water isn't helping.

Yeah, I had a conversation with @Mañ'O'Green last night and he also believes my water isn’t helping the situation. Never had this problem last winter with my tap water so this may be a seasonal problem. Short term, I may buy some jugs of spring water or RO water and split my water 50/50. Long term, I‘ll need to add a filter for RO water to a bathroom.

 

[YoungGrassh0pper]

Yep. I agree..the 'canoe" shape on the top leaves is indicative of excessive dissolved solids. I bet that 250 ppm tap water isn't helping.

I would switch to spring water and see if that help before changing my regiment.

That’s looking like the short term plan to my problem FN. Thought the boogie blue filter would be enough. Looks like I was wrong.

 

[Twenty20 Adam]

@F.N. have you got a microscope you use with your plants? I'm looking at that last photo above, the one with the curled up leaf edges and I started itching and cringing. That is one of the telltale signs of hemp russet mites and trust me I've been battling those things now for 18 months and have not been able to completely eradicate them only keep them in check.

I know there can be other causes for the "canoe" symptoms but please check the bottoms of a couple of those leaves please just to make sure. They are microscopic and look like this. Not a great picture but you'll get the idea how small these things are.
View media item 24571 I hope your problem is just heat or light stress and not these F*^*&**

A few applications of sulfur will wipe them out

 

[Sour D]

Yeah, I had a conversation with @Mañ'O'Green last night and he also believes my water isn’t helping the situation. Never had this problem last winter with my tap water so this may be a seasonal problem. Short term, I may buy some jugs of spring water or RO water and split my water 50/50. Long term, I‘ll need to add a filter for RO water to a bathroom.

If your not ready for the ro stuff, try this. I use one for my outdoor plants( our well water is "not fit for human consumption") and they are growing just fine. RO systems waste a lot of water. Amazon product

 

[LoveDaAutos]

A few applications of sulfur will wipe them out

That's kind of a random statement. I set up a tent dedicated to sulfur burns and would put the plants in once a week for an hour. I would do this most of the way through flower until they got too big and cumbersome to carry up and down two flights of stairs anymore. Then I found a product called Bonide Sulfur Plant Fungicide which I would mix with water in a pump garden sprayer. When the plants were hitting their 4th node I would carry them outside and absolutely drench the entire plant, tops and bottoms of the leaves and the stem and top of the soil. I would repeat this when I up-potted to 1 gallon containers, then again when they were topped and moved to 3 gallon pots. And then a final time when moved to 7 gallon pots right before flipping. I won't spray sulfur on my buds so that sulfur spray at a few days before flip is all the sulfur they get.

So I'm with you, the vegging plants being treated with the Bonide spray appear to be mite free, but obviously I can't remove every leaf to scope it and if they reappear in flowering there must still be survivors I'm guessing. I've gone so far as to take my 4x4 tent down and set it up on the slate patio and pressure washing it with bleach and then putting it in the sun zipped up as tight as possible and letting it sit there in the sun baking inside. So unless you have a different product or method I'm not on board with the idea that a few applications will wipe them out. But would be overjoyed to learn of a way to eradicate them completely.

 

[wwwillie]

If your not ready for the ro stuff, try this. I use one for my outdoor plants( our well water is "not fit for human consumption") and they are growing just fine. RO systems waste a lot of water. Amazon product

I use standard 10 inch filter holders for mine. That allows me to use multiple, less expensive filters. Mostly carbon but one KDF. One thing not mentioned is the flow rate. Are you careful to stay within the flow rate specified by the filter manufacturer? I had to train myself to do that.

 

[Twenty20 Adam]

That's kind of a random statement. I set up a tent dedicated to sulfur burns and would put the plants in once a week for an hour. I would do this most of the way through flower until they got too big and cumbersome to carry up and down two flights of stairs anymore. Then I found a product called Bonide Sulfur Plant Fungicide which I would mix with water in a pump garden sprayer. When the plants were hitting their 4th node I would carry them outside and absolutely drench the entire plant, tops and bottoms of the leaves and the stem and top of the soil. I would repeat this when I up-potted to 1 gallon containers, then again when they were topped and moved to 3 gallon pots. And then a final time when moved to 7 gallon pots right before flipping. I won't spray sulfur on my buds so that sulfur spray at a few days before flip is all the sulfur they get.

So I'm with you, the vegging plants being treated with the Bonide spray appear to be mite free, but obviously I can't remove every leaf to scope it and if they reappear in flowering there must still be survivors I'm guessing. I've gone so far as to take my 4x4 tent down and set it up on the slate patio and pressure washing it with bleach and then putting it in the sun zipped up as tight as possible and letting it sit there in the sun baking inside. So unless you have a different product or method I'm not on board with the idea that a few applications will wipe them out. But would be overjoyed to learn of a way to eradicate them completely.

We spray..no rinse..we don't use it in flower. 30 ml per gallon. Spray the seedlings and just before flower. Obviously if you're area is infested you will need to do a total clean out and that's tough.

 

[LoveDaAutos]

I feel pretty secure in saying that the only infestation in my area is my 4x4 flowering tent. I live back east and picked them up from a clone sent from out west where they are very prevalent.