Hi Sweet, I read ur diary as soon as I noticed the speckling as I feared it could be the dreaded spider mites and did a bit of research but thankfully I don't think they are mites. I'll have another look tomorrow morning when the lights come on. working from home for rest of the week so get to be with my mrs and green babies 6 days out of 7 - can't complain! although I find myself staring at the plants when I should be working, its highly adictive...
The things I saw, other than the 'late' catapilar were firstly an aphid, pretty sure it was cos of the wings and what could possibly be its lava, looked like tiny magot / lava with tiny antenas, white and pretty minging looking under the hand scope, but thankfully didnt look like the above.
I have been doing random checks on the leaves I can reach whenever I pop my head in the tent but not seen any more crawly things on the leaves I looked at so far.
Q: can you see the mites without magnification if you look closely? if not I'll spend the majority of tomorrow giving them a full check up cos if it is mites I guess I need to act now.
The only other thing I can think of whats causing the speckling / leaf burn could be the fact that I've 'attempted to spray feed the leaves in an attempt to knock off any beasties that may have set up home on the leaves, guess this could have stayed on the leaves a little too long and caused spots of burn?
Will have to keep a close eye on em,
Thx for the advice
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