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Old June 16, 2017   #15
RayR
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Originally Posted by zipcode View Post
One can see adult mites easily with naked eye (I guess it depends on the eyes though). Young ones, well also with some difficulty, but you need to know exactly what you are looking for.
To have such bad deficiency in actual soil is really hard, not sure what to say, I'm fairly certain it's not the common two spotted mite though, at least not the main culprit.

What has happened between the point when the plants looked good till now?
You must have super vision or some really big mites in Europe. The only type of mites I've had to deal with in the north are Two Spotted Spider Mites. In the Southern US they have an assortment of mites that feed on tomato plants, Two Spotted Spider Mites, Red Spider Mites, Broad Mites, Tomato Russet Mites and God knows what else.
What looks like a nutrient deficiency at the soil to some people here except Marsha and I. is a nutrient deficiency in a round about way if you consider that mites suck the life out of leaf cells and dead cells can't transport nutrients.
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