Thrips?

My plants are almost 5 months old… In week two of flowering and all of a sudden out of nowhere I’m seeing signs of what looks like thrips? Will ladybugs fix this? Or do I need to use an insecticide of some type?

Pic is blurry when i zoom. Take a pic of the spot plz

I'm pretty sure ladybugs eat anything, with the exception of scale insects already in barnacle mode.

Sorry I was using my phone. They are in dark cycle right now I can take a photo tonight. Pretty sure I saw a couple live thrips. definitely silver markings where the blemishes are. Sigh.

BudgetMessiah said:

I'm pretty sure ladybugs eat anything, with the exception of scale insects already in barnacle mode.

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Okay thanks. I want to try to not resort to insecticides. Although I hear Spinosad soaps are best? Any input on that?

My plants have been super healthy until now. These are the ones in flower.

Diabolical666 said:

Pic is blurry when i zoom. Take a pic of the spot plz

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I will tonight 9pm mountain time. When the day cycle comes back. Idk if I can get a much better pic with my phone. But will try.

Nice grow.

Indoor and outdoor.
When I had thrips spinosad did the trick (Monterey Garden Insect Spray, is the brand I used)
I used it in veg, and early flower with zero negatives.

Then I learned to be much more careful about infecting my grow from entering/exiting.

TintEastwood said:

Nice grow.

Indoor and outdoor.
When I had thrips spinosad did the trick (Monterey Garden Insect Spray, is the brand I used)
I used it in veg, and early flower with zero negatives.

Then I learned to be much more careful about infecting my grow from entering/exiting.

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Thanks for the input. Definitely all indoor. Trying to utilize space until I move to a bigger house those are all in flower. These are my veg plants. Like I said all seems to be healthy until yesterday when I noticed the signs. I did read about the spinosad. I got lady bugs today. If I see more damage in the next few days I will invest in the spray. I can’t find that brand. But did find an organic brand spinosad soap at my local garden center. I’ve only noticed it in my flower area but am wondering if I should get lady bugs for both.

A lil vid of a thrip up close

Any insecticidal soap product will kill them. I used Safer's End All concentrate and added 10ml/L canola oil to it to wipe out mites and thrips. Every 4th day for 4 sprays and do a real good job of it.

If it's flowering plants tho it's gonna make nasty tasting buds. Did just a branch on one plant at 21 days flower and the buds tasted like crap still when picked at harvest.

Good luck!

TintEastwood said:

Nice grow.

Indoor and outdoor.
When I had thrips spinosad did the trick (Monterey Garden Insect Spray, is the brand I used)
I used it in veg, and early flower with zero negatives.

Then I learned to be much more careful about infecting my grow from entering/exiting.

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I used Monterey Spinosad. I use it as a drench at 1 oz/gallon every three days until I see no more fliers and then once a week as a prophylactic. Currently I don't have thrips but we are endemic for them so I'm sure more will find their way indoors eventually.

So I am 10 days into flowering. At 9pm they wake up on day 11.. Spinosad is my next option as I have read that it doesn’t effect the taste of your buds n all that. Anyone know if that’s true? My biggest worry is because they are flowering.

Would be better to see the spot upclose. This is on every plant?

If you are only 10 days into flower you do not yet have buds. Buy yourself some diatomaceous earth, mix like a teaspoon of it into a gallon of water, and mist every leaf and stem, and avoid the flowers as you can to minimize exposure. It will exterminate those things, without a doubt. It's basically molecular caltrops that dig into chitin, opening their shells and causing them to dry out.

You can add it to soil to protect from any bugs in that, feed it to livestock to protect them for parasites, all sorts of good stuff. Just try to avoid inhaling it, you really want to avoid using it on buds that you intend to smoke. The water spray will dry to a very fine powder that you should barely notice on the leaves and stems. Those bugs will basically disembowel themselves dragging their fat shells through it. After you stop seeing the bugs, you can spray or wipe the leaves clean, if you'd like.

ColoradoAnjel said:

So I am 10 days into flowering. At 9pm they wake up on day 11.. Spinosad is my next option as I have read that it doesn’t effect the taste of your buds n all that. Anyone know if that’s true? My biggest worry is because they are flowering.

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Yes it's true. Spinosad isn't a soap, it's a bacteria. Totally fine to use at 10-days flowering and works quite well.

ColoradoAnjel said:

My plants are almost 5 months old… In week two of flowering and all of a sudden out of nowhere I’m seeing signs of what looks like thrips? Will ladybugs fix this? Or do I need to use an insecticide of some type?

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You can prune and release ladybugs, they will eat the Thrips, Amazon has ladybugs

I recently had a run in with a small population of thrips in one container... about the same timing for me too, day 10 of the 12's....I had a bottle of Capn' Jack's Deadbug Brew from last seasons outdoor. I went ahead and sprayed the whole room with it.

The only negative that came of it, was 10 or so minutes of minor panic, two days after the first spray( I had completely forgotten I sprayed) when I saw all the dying pistils, way too early for that....WTF happened? There's no nutsacks in here anywhere??? How did EVERYTHING get dusted????

Sigh of relief when I remembered the spray.
Thrips are gone too.