Eggs, sap? Please identify these things!

indooraloka

indooraloka

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Does anyone know what these things are?
They are found only at the top of the plant, on the main stalk and on the 'leaf branch'.
I only ever find a few on each plant, and there is never more than one or two on a branch.
I'm not having any issues at all with the plants, and these things have been showing up for awhile.
I can not find any bugs or evidence of, other then these things that look like slime bubbles that popped. When they dry up they get clear/amber. Check out the picks. Thanks all!

These are 1-2 mm in diameter.
They show up in places with lots of wind from fans and always in direct light.
 

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Dogenzengi

Dogenzengi

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Very Good photography!
you have sometching but I don't know what. Quarantine the plants w the sacs/globs....
Get daily photos, check underside of all leaves, check top soil or rock wool or whatever substrate you have.
Good Luck, I agree w MudBalls fuckin creepy looking.
 
indooraloka

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I've never found one of these that didn't have a hole in it. I think they show up over night, and if it is some kind of egg, it hatches overnight too.
I've done extensive searching for critters and nothing has come up. I don't catch anything on sticky traps, nothing on the stalk with tanglefoot. They have been showing up for more than a few cycles. One showed up this morning, check out the pics. You can see little tiny air bubbles inside it.
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ganjarules106

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Never seen any thing like this before. Very odd maybe you got aliens lol but all joking aside haven't got a clue what this is.
 
silusbotwin

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I believe you have found a super rare plant that I heard DJ Short talk about at one of his breeding classes. Apparently, there is a rare phenomenon where resin is excreted through some type of hair or gland and it is highly sought after amongst breeders who know about it. I think you may have found the rare instance he was referring to.

Scrape some of it off the plant and heat it up and rub it between your fingers to see if it smells like resin. Even better, if you have a buddy who is willing to be your guinea pig, have him smoke a small bowl of it and see how it tastes.

I really doubt this is a creatures eggs. I'm fairly certain you have something pretty special.
 
indooraloka

indooraloka

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Diabolical666 said:
Its scale bug. They leave sap and eggs. Google some scale pics;) Do you have house plants around your grow?
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Ok, I googled scale pics but have not found anything that matches what I have in these pics. None of the scale egg or "honeydew" pics I saw looked like these. Can you add some examples?
I spent hours today looking over this plant and under a 100-150x microscope and found no other blobs, or any type of bug.


silusbotwin said:
I believe you have found a super rare plant that I heard DJ Short talk about at one of his breeding classes. Apparently, there is a rare phenomenon where resin is excreted through some type of hair or gland and it is highly sought after amongst breeders who know about it. I think you may have found the rare instance he was referring to.

Scrape some of it off the plant and heat it up and rub it between your fingers to see if it smells like resin. Even better, if you have a buddy who is willing to be your guinea pig, have him smoke a small bowl of it and see how it tastes.

I really doubt this is a creatures eggs. I'm fairly certain you have something pretty special.
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That would be cool, but there are never more than a few of these on a plant during its lifecycle. They are pretty easy to spot.
I found this pic on another site, they stated that it was sap. It has the same shape and looks to be hollow and have a hole in the side like mine, it's just darker. They are not sticky like resin.
Though some of the ones I've found were amber. I don't know, it's still freaking me out.

 
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THE KONASSURE

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if it is sap then it`ll amber up as the plant gets older ?

Ok load me up a bowl of it I`ll try dabbing some :p

Notice how they all seem to be on the end of a hair ? if they were eggs would some not be laid directly onto the plants "skin" ?
 
Diabolical666

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Image 27 looked like a head was forming. Most likely its just the angle and light. I was looking again and narrowed down to citrus scale , but not too many details of baby stage and what the eggs look like. I think Id just watch em and see what they do. If you have any residue and the plant is dying off then yea watch these spots and make sure they dont crawl away;)
 
indooraloka

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Well shit, I think I found a baby aphid. Microscopic, clear, and fast, I couldn't get a picture of the thing under the microscope because it kept running and disappeared.
I don't know if the blobs are related though.
I never see anything flying around and am not catching anything on sticky traps. I think this is just dust but it kinda looks like the cottony aphids, there is no head or anything though.
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charface

charface

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I have had these before frequently.
They are easily rubbed off.
I have never incurred harm from them and they stop showing up once the stem gets woody
 
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CC Dobbs

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indooraloka said:
Does anyone know what these things are?
They are found only at the top of the plant, on the main stalk and on the 'leaf branch'.
I only ever find a few on each plant, and there is never more than one or two on a branch.
I'm not having any issues at all with the plants, and these things have been showing up for awhile.
I can not find any bugs or evidence of, other then these things that look like slime bubbles that popped. When they dry up they get clear/amber. Check out the picks. Thanks all!

These are 1-2 mm in diameter.
They show up in places with lots of wind from fans and always in direct light.
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Those are vagina eggs
 
charface

charface

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I have noticed splits in the stem but nothing came from it.
they are so symmetrically shaped I have to guess they are some shelled creature
 
indooraloka

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charface said:
I have had these before frequently.
They are easily rubbed off.
I have never incurred harm from them and they stop showing up once the stem gets woody
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Well it's nice to know I'm not the only one!! They have never caused any problems.

Diabolical666 said:
You seem close to harvesting. Id bomb the grow after this crop
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Nope, week 2. That one pic of the flower is from another site, claiming it was sap...not my photo.
I sprayed some Azomax today after I found that baby aphid.

Little bugs like this really freak me out. I'm getting better, but the time I got spider mites I was going crazy, thinking they were on me and showering all the time. They are so ugly and small.
Once I was running dwc and rubbed my finger along the inside of the bucket...then I looked at my finger under a microscope and holy shit it was covered in root aphids! That was traumatizing. Still, not as bad as spider mites.
It was nice before I started growing when I didn't ever think about microscopic bugs. I guess they are a part of life though and wont harm me.

I was thinking of getting some lady bugs but I don't want lady bug eggs and poop all over either. I've never seen a baby lady bug but I bet they are scary too.
 
silusbotwin

silusbotwin

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I still think this isnt scale or Aphids. This pdf should help you understand this:

http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/13/12/17077/pdf

I'm feeling 100% certain that these are glandular hairs, just like DJ Short talked about. Keep us updated as to what you find. Just dont try to dab that sap now that you have sprayed it with azamax.


indooraloka said:
Well it's nice to know I'm not the only one!! They have never caused any problems.



Nope, week 2. That one pic of the flower is from another site, claiming it was sap...not my photo.
I sprayed some Azomax today after I found that baby aphid.

Little bugs like this really freak me out. I'm getting better, but the time I got spider mites I was going crazy, thinking they were on me and showering all the time. They are so ugly and small.
Once I was running dwc and rubbed my finger along the inside of the bucket...then I looked at my finger under a microscope and holy shit it was covered in root aphids! That was traumatizing. Still, not as bad as spider mites.
It was nice before I started growing when I didn't ever think about microscopic bugs. I guess they are a part of life though and wont harm me.

I was thinking of getting some lady bugs but I don't want lady bug eggs and poop all over either. I've never seen a baby lady bug but I bet they are scary too.
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