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    Hi I was told that it would be best to ask this question here.
    Im growing a Jack Herer Auto from RQS. She is currently exactly 1 month old(a few days into preflower).
    Im growing indoors in soil (kind of a cheap organic one).

    About a week and a half ago I noticed a little chunk missing from one of the leaves (pic 1), but it looks like a minor deformation to me, so Im not to worried about that - still I want to provide all the details needed for a proper diagnosis - 2 or 3 other leaves have similar issues, but they dont look like they've been eaten by something - more like they just for whatever reason didnt grow this part of the leaf.

    Yesterday I noticed something quite a bit more scary looking - pic 2. It definetely looks like something is eating the leaf. Im not sure if its getting bigger. Noticed it kinda overnight.
    In the third pic you can see a close up of the white spec visible in the previous one (pic 2 - white dot next to the holes). Doesnt really look like a bug - its shapeless. It may very well be dead skin from my fingers, or bits of styrofoamy insulation of my tent (I found these specs on a few undamaged leaves too). I was able to knock this spec off the leaf easily. I had a thorough look at her using my handy magnifying glass and found a couple dark dots under the damaged leaf which may be bug poop, but they may just be specs of soil since this part of the plant is fairly close to the ground and Ive seen soil on the leaves many many times before (there are similar specs on totally undamaged leaves, and they've been there before so Im pretty much certain that at least some of these dots under the leaves is just soil). About a week ago I had to pull out a literal weed out of my pot, because it started growing next to my plant, so Im concerned that something woke up in the soil and started eating my plant
    What do you think? Its my first grow, and I dont really have a lot of experience so Id like to indentify problems early and get rid of them.

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    I think that I sorted this out. Like a week or two ago I found a stinkbug flying around my room. I caught it and threw it outside. Maybe I just didnt see the damage back then and only noticed it now, after the leaf itself got bigger and I moved some branches in the process of LST.

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    Or maybe I didnt... Found more damage on leaves to small to be eaten this way back then when I found the stinkbug.
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    Hard to say if or what bug that is, usually big chunks are caterpillars or something similar. They also could be caused by ruff handling and too much direct air from a fan? Nothing serious though, so I wouldn't worry.


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    A user on another forum also sugested wind damage. That would make sense, because the fan was pretty close to that branch. I was confused, because I couldnt find any signs of bugs, so in my case its probably a combination of this pesky stinkbug and wind. Thanks

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