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What To Do About Leaf Miners On Your Marijuana Plants

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 03/21/2016 - 09:23

For Leaf Miners Resistance is Not Futile: Game Over or Play On?

Mechanical and Organic Methods to the Rescue

Are your Cannabis leaves suddenly looking like the snaky maze aftermath of a Light Cycle tournament from Tron? Chances are pretty good that you’ve got hungry little Leaf Miner maggots tunneling through the juicy interiors to feed on plant cells like Ms. Pac Man chomping on a power pellet. Once sated, after a week or two of tunneling, the maggots will emerge from the leaf, drop to the ground and pupate, quickly metamorphosing into a small adult fly. The mated females will soon inject their eggs below the surface of a healthy mature leaf to start the cycle anew.

Every leaf is a food factory powered by the sun, manufacturing all a plant needs to grow utilizing raw materials gathered from the air and soil. When Leaf Miners are eating...

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