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Help what is this? fly pooh or something else?

Black dots that are not insects, they don't move and I can scrape them off someone mentioned this could be fly pooh is that correct.

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When you wipe it off, is it solid or does it smudge/break apart? It could be a kind of mildew - I think it's called sooty mildew or black soot or something - that grows on the nectar secretions of plants. If so, it's pretty much harmless; just means that your plants are happy and not getting rained on enough.
~Joe
 
Thabks for the reply, it does come off completely as one piece but can smuge a bit too, most of my plants seem happy but you never know effects might not show yet if it is harmful. I have never seen or had this before and just need to put my mind at rest as to what it is.
 
yeah its sooty mildew, no big deal.... shows up a lot on my flava, oreophila, and their hybrids.
 
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