Thrips

Scouse66 said:

I have an infestation of thrips whilst 35 days into flower.
I've sprayed other plants that are in veg but am reluctant to spray anything onto my crop whilst buds are developing.
Do I try and spray leaves individually with a small bottle or just ride it out and treat the room once its cut down?

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I'm a fan of predators. But I'd spray with citric and then add some cucumeris, swirskii, and hypoaspis miles. I put the mites and vermiculite or whatever into envelopes or the boxes they sell and hang them on the plant. That way the shit doesn't get all over the plants. The boxes don't always close right so they can be messier.

If you order predators go directly through the good guys or Arbico. Going through Amazon takes longer and isn't as healthy for the bugs I don't think.

I ordered pirate bugs once but then I thought about it and didn't think that would go well since my bed is in the same room, so I cancelled it.

Onextremebuzz said:

Well the environment, the species of thrips and of course the plants in the room. Generally the lights aren't strong enough to make the thrips hide under the leaves but under a hot sun they can. I've seen entire soybean fields get decimated by them.

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What are you doing, man?

Thrips will lay eggs on the underside of leaves, but they crawl everywhere. They'll even take to the skies.

lusidghost said:

What are you doing, man?

Thrips will lay eggs on the underside of leaves, but they crawl everywhere. They'll even take to the skies.

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I was answering what was supposed rhetorical question lol, correct, but they do detest the hot sun and they are awful flyers too. So taking to the skies seems like your giving thrips exceptional credit at flying then they actually have unless the wind carries them to a new food source of course or they hitch a ride on clothing or an animal.

Has anyone used grower's ally