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HELP: Plant Dying Basically Overnight

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Justforfun88

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Hey guys, i need quick help. My plant basically started dying overnight. Everything was going great, and then one day the entire plant started to wither. Temperature is roughly 77 degrees and humidity is 40%. This is my first plant. I have been watering once every 1-2 days when the soil is dry.
The link below is a photo of tiny clear/white bugs I have found around the plants. Are these spiders mites or some other type of pest?
The plant is on a 24/7 light schedule.
I have since raised the light in case it was light burn and have not watered in case it was over-watering.
If it is spider-mites, can the plant still be saved or is it too far gone?
Thanks for all the help!
https://imgur.com/OfVXlNh
 
pic isn't clear enough. Need more and better pics.

Could be a light issue but droopy plants usually indicate either too much water or too much heat/humidity. If you are in the right range for temps and humidity then watering every 1-2 days is likely the problem. at 77F in soil the plants will need at least 3 - 4 days...if in coir then every 2-3 days. Remember that dry means at least the first 2 inches deep of topsoil must be dry.

Ph levels, type of nutes and power of the light are factors too....
 
I'd say they're over-watered, give them a few days to dry out. Lift up the pot now while it's wet so you can feel how heavy it is. When the pot gets pretty light it's time to water again. That size pot and not being a fabric pot, I'd say you can probably water about every 3-5 days. But go by the weight, not by looks or feeling the soil for dampness. Hopefully she recovers.
 
A plant dying that quickly is commonly a root problem. It may be they were too wet and rotted. If you can’t salvage her check the roots when you pull her up. Many bugs only show up to eat decaying organic matter so the bugs may be a symptom but they might also be the cause, as some bugs will eat healthy roots. I haven’t looked closely at your pics but if I were you I would research the bug type. While you do that I would ease up on the water for now in case it is root rot. Not sure if that is recoverable.
 
Many bugs maybe but he identified likely mites, which do not need rotted material to feed. He also stated that this apparently happened overnight so it is unlikely the bugs did it unless there are hundreds of them, which would indicate a severe infestation
 
Very clearly overwatering. Once you see bugs, you got a watering problem. The mantra on this site is to water when the pot is light. Exactly what dphipps1020 said. It took several bad grows for this basic principle to stick into my head, but once it was beaten into my head enough and the light bulb went off, its like I'm a different grower now. Learning to water correctly is probably the most fundamental task you can master. For me, I have to weigh my pots every day, keep a log, and once it gets to a certain weight, I rewater or feed them. I treat it like a science experiment and keeping a log helps. Putting them on a scale and using numbers, instead of going by feel and weight, was the ticket for me. pot likes to get dried out and then rewatered, so drying them out may seem counterproductive and kind of scary, but the cycle of wet/dry/wet/dry seems to work well for the plant. good luck.
 
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