Anything to worry about?

bc_southbuds

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The markings (aside from the bugs munching here and there). I’m thinking the hot 35c/100f weather for the last 2 weeks. Misty water droplets landing on leaves and burning mid day? Posting here just to make sure. Thanks!

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This one still has some powdered pesticide residues on it from awhile ago. I double checked and most of this is still on the lower nodes from 4-5 weeks ago when flea Beatles were attacking the
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that stuff on the edge. Nothing? Something? Outdoor basic wear and tear? These are all 2nd, 3rd node leaves. Plants are 7 weeks old. Autos.
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Yup thrips. BTW, although spraying with most insecticides or what have you during daylight hours definitely can burn your leaves, water shouldn't, 90-100 dg's here daily, and every day I use the shower or mist attachment on my hose spray nozzle and blast the plants so I get the bottom of the leaves and pretty much everywhere. No leave burn, but it does help a lot in keeping pests from reproducing and hanging out on my plants. So far almost no insect issues, although if i looked carefully I may see a tiny bit of thrip damage on maybe one or 2 leaves and a very occasional whitefly. Now that flowering stretch started, I'll likely need to bust out the Spinosad and maybe BT when the buds develop
 
Yup thrips. BTW, although spraying with most insecticides or what have you during daylight hours definitely can burn your leaves, water shouldn't, 90-100 dg's here daily, and every day I use the shower or mist attachment on my hose spray nozzle and blast the plants so I get the bottom of the leaves and pretty much everywhere. No leave burn, but it does help a lot in keeping pests from reproducing and hanging out on my plants. So far almost no insect issues, although if i looked carefully I may see a tiny bit of thrip damage on maybe one or 2 leaves and a very occasional whitefly. Now that flowering stretch started, I'll likely need to bust out the Spinosad and maybe BT when the buds develop

Scale of 1-10, how bad are thrips? :-|

Will start spraying off. Although, I’m about week 3 into flower. Ok to do?

I’m not sure if Spinosad is available here in Canada. BT, you mean Bacillus thuringiensis?
I use that for worms on my Kale, etc.

For now I put on some yellow sticky traps to monitor. Also isolated the plant from the others. Counted 3 thrips in total looking at the plants for 5 minutes very closely. If you can confirm if spraying them off 3 weeks into flower is ok, I’ll start doing that (will google that method some more too of course). I don’t think I’ll use the soap because it’ll get all over my buds.

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I have pyrethrin, but it’s super harsh toward bee’s and I’m reluctant to use it unless it’s a full on infestation. It’s also difficult to apply (flower).

If anyone else wants to chime in please do!
 
There we go….until I can get my hands on some pyrethrin spray and/or anything else that won’t hurt the buds. Wtf do you use when you’re in mid-flowering stage? Sucks! Otherwise I would just nuke these fuckers with pyrethrin powder, put a bag over the plant overnight and call it aday. 3655ACD8-200D-4583-8AA7-A8CD668FF784.jpeg

All the good pesticides are not approved here in Canada, even pyrethrin spray is hard to find. I’ll take a photo next time but some of these sticky’s had like 4-5 thrips on them already over the course of 3hrs.
 
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