Can any one help me save my crop?

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Sorry i'm new to this whole internet thing! Not sure how to get pictures up for you to see without leaving the sight!
A couple of days ago i noticed these tiny black dots on a couple of leaves, it looks like something has eaten away the top layer of the leaf leaving it almost transparent with these dots that kind of look like mould spores or something?..
Ive had a good look & can't see any pests, thankfuly it doesn't look
like spider mite or i'd be crying!
Can any one tell me what they think it is & how i can treat it, the plants are 1/2way through flowering now.. i can't afford to start again! :(
One of the leaves i pulled of was well dried up & buggerd!
Please help,
thanks
kate

It looks like major over fertilization to me!!!

what are you using !! and how much??? you better get
a good flushing agent or just flush it with lotf of water
i could be wrong but thats what mine looked like when
i over fertilized

You have a thrip problem.
Bomb the flower room with pyrethrin. Your local hydro shop should carry bug bombs that are safe to use up to 3 weeks before harvest.
There are some other things you can also do to help. Rinse off your plants under the sink sprayer to get larvae off the lower leaves- be careful not to get the buds wet.
Put up yellow sticky pest monitor cards.
Take a paper plate and cut a slit from the edge to the center, slip it around the stem of the plant, covering the soil surface while still allowing air flow- this will prevent the larval thrips from dropping down from the leaves to the soil, where they pupate and become sexually mature.

Oh thankyou so much!
I did wonder after reading about 'thrips', but i've
not actually seen any...
Where do these things come from, it seems as soon as
you start using grow lights all sorts can come along &
bugger everything up!
I've got a lot to learn,

Are they as bad as spider mite?,
x

Nope, thrips are not as bad as spider mites. They cause less damage unless you have a REALLY bad infestation, but the damage is easy to spot early and deal with. By the time you see mite damage, you're already fooked.
Also, thrips are easier to eradicate, as they are susceptible to a variety of insecticides that are not very harmful to humans, such as pyrethrin. And their life cycle includes a stage IN the soil, so you can use physical barriers to interrupt it.
Where do htey come from? Shoot, damned if I know, hell maybe?

well like my username says (firstimegrower) but my plant looked similar from too much fert. id definatly go with stinky though
shes never steered me in the wrong direction ! im just a stoopid
noob,what do i know. but my baby is coming along nicely
day 14 of flowering. well good luck and happy gardening!!

I can see why you would say overfert, becuase of the dried up dead leaves- when you look up plant symptoms, burned looking leaves does come up as overfert.
To clarify, overfert burn will start as a tan-brown scorch at the tips and edges.
Dessication from excessive bug damage will cause the leaves to simply shrivel and die as the ones in those pics did.

Thanks again! :)

Hope my wardrobe isn't a gateway to hell!!!

Oh you're in a wardrobe? Then apparently the thrips came from Narnia. They might talk to you... listen close! :D

Ha Ha! :D

I like this site, all the other's that i've been on
have either been dead, or over run by teenagers!

Hi, sorry, me again, i'm pretty skint & without transport for a few days..
Is there anything that i may have around the home that i may use to feck them up in the mean time?
I have done the paper plate thing, got carnivourus plants in there too, i read about garlic plants repelling them?..
don't think i'll get them under a tap & not got a hose!...
I'm not sure how serious it is, have had a good look with my naked
eye & with a micrscope & still not seen any lavae or adults...
Now i'm all itchy! Brrrr!

lol @ overrun by teenagers; we were for a bit there and then the admin decided to go 18+ and it has been a breath of fresh air ever since.

Well since you can't get to the shop, your best bet for the moment is to manually remove any of the tiny larvae that you find on the leaves. Carnivorous plants won't help, since the bugs really stay right there on the plant rather than flying all about the room.

As SOON as you can, try to get to the shop- bombs are pretty cheap compared to the hassle of dealing with home-brewed bug sprays, that often contain stuff like garlic that will make your buds taste filthy. Plus thrips can be tough to kill.

Brrr!
Had another look & found.. one little yellow/white thing..
I should've sulphur bombed the room before i started but
we had nowhere to go while it did it's buisness! :(

Yuck, i gotta shower, the thought of them is making me itch
like crazy!

Thanks again, you must get bored with the same old probs all
the time!

x

I found a spray today with Pyrethin. Everywhere I searched I could not find any bombs. Home Depot or Lowes has none nor does Ace Hardware. I have little gnats that are bothersome so I sprayed around the pots and on the soil. I also used a very little of the pond donuts that someone mentioned on the forum. I haven't sprayed the plants themselves and don't think I should. Looks like about 2 weeks to harvest. Would this hurt the plants if I lightly sprayed them if I can't erradicate those gnats?

Yeah, don't spray the plants that close to harvest. They look nice btw.
Bomb the room before you put your next crop in there. If there's no plants in the room, you can use pretty much any bomb from home dePOT.

Been looking on the net all day & the closest thing i can find to these bomb are something that says its 13% pyrethrin.. but it says not be used when plants are present?!,..
It' a pain, internet shoping is taking over but you don't know what your getting!, don't know
what else as in these bombs so i'm now waiting for the place to get back to me..
There're no grow shops for miles around us now, the last one got busted for blatantly dealing!

(wish i'd knownthey were dealing at the time!!!)


x

"wish i'd knownthey were dealing at the time!!!"

LOL