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Bugs? Fungus? Need help please.

buz

buz

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I have a pest/fungus/mold problem I'd like info on how to deal with it. It starts with small rusty dots on the leaves and progresses rapidly to covering the leaf and killing it. The problem has killed the top of one plant and another is moderately infected. After clipping the top of my plant off, I noticed tight in to the stalk the are what appear to be little webs kind of like cottonballs. I've trimmed as much of the affected leaves as I can, but I'd like to know there's an effective method for eliminating the problem. Thanks for any thoughts.
 

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Yeah it does look like mold.
what is you humidity at.
if your room is cool and humid at night,
that would explain mold in the thick of the buds.

If it is indeed webs, then that could be spider mites.
And if it is spider mite....Oooh man.
I've never had a problem with mites but friends I know have, and there was nothing they could do to save there plants.
they had no choice but ta chop everything. Bleech all equipment, buckets/walls / floors/ hoses/ tools every single thing in the room.
then start over and hope ya got them all.
I was told once that releasing a shit load of lady bugs in your room will divour the mite

If it's nats.
I've heard of putting a layar of beach sand (1 inch) over the soil. I guess larvae don't like that and die off. maybe hang fly strips.
apparently Nat's can be control and recovered.
 
Spider mites will give you dots all over the leaves, and webbing over the colas and leaves, but not in tight like the pics here show. What you have is definitely something else.
 
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Spider mites will give you dots all over the leaves, and webbing over the colas and leaves, but not in tight like the pics here show. What you have is definitely something else.
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yeah,
it realy does look more like mold
 
I appreciate all the thoughts. Sounds like it's nearly evenly divided between mites and mold - so I'll find a treatment for each I guess. It was my nicest plant too, only have 4 growing at the moment - they have all been affected by something during the grow - it was a grow from hell. About ready to clean up and start again.

BTW - my humidity and temp are both in the 60's most of the time. The humidity can crack 70 but not more and the temp cracks 68 and not more. Neither temp or humidity go below 65 - it gets checked at least 3 times a day, sometimes 4 or 5 times.
 
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I'd definitely shoot for humidity in the low 50's if not the 40's. My tents usually sit in the mid to high 40's lights off and low to mid 30's lights on.
 
Yeah try ta get your humidity down bellow 50 RH.
and lots of fans.. lots and lots of air movement

my humidity tends to go up and over 60% on days when i just watered. my buds are 2 weeks away from picking with no signs of mold whats so ever but I was running Co2 (just shut off for last 2 weeks) and now drawing in fresh air and 3 fans in there going during lights on AND off.
keep em dancing
 
buz said:
I have a pest/fungus/mold problem I'd like info on how to deal with it. It starts with small rusty dots on the leaves and progresses rapidly to covering the leaf and killing it. The problem has killed the top of one plant and another is moderately infected. After clipping the top of my plant off, I noticed tight in to the stalk the are what appear to be little webs kind of like cottonballs. I've trimmed as much of the affected leaves as I can, but I'd like to know there's an effective method for eliminating the problem. Thanks for any thoughts.
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EWWWWWWW that is nasty lookin.
 
Since fans and fresh air don't seem to get me much below 65% then I'll have to look at some equipment - not sure i want to.
 
Looks like mold to me. I would remove all buds that have anything looking like mold. Yesterday! Good luck.
 
Looks like a combo,u got the Borg,(spider mites) and mold two biggies!!! Spray for mites and remove all moldie buds from grow and get the.fan moving air around buds better. Lol
 
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