iv got thrips it not bad what the best thing to use as girls flowing :thumbs:
Kudo
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Either a organic bug spray for leaves or neem oil or SM 90 for a soil soak.
Captain Howdy
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Howdy dude 
Thrips suck balls, I'm surrounded by farms where I live so I can't seem to get away from them. I've just resorted to growing resilient plants just to keep the numbers down.
I don't like using sprays really so when possible I release a load of ladybugs in the grow space and let them do their thing, so long as there's food they'll stick around. You can source these online.
I've heard Spinosad works well even in flowering but not something I've ever used.
Another experimental way I've seen was if your using a Co2 generator, you crank it up to 4000ppm for 4 hours, and then vent. Supposedly this high rise in Co2 kills most things dead without affecting your plants but again, not something I've tried myself.
Ladybugs would be my recommendation but mainly just because they look very cool crawling over your plants
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Thrips suck balls, I'm surrounded by farms where I live so I can't seem to get away from them. I've just resorted to growing resilient plants just to keep the numbers down.
I don't like using sprays really so when possible I release a load of ladybugs in the grow space and let them do their thing, so long as there's food they'll stick around. You can source these online.
I've heard Spinosad works well even in flowering but not something I've ever used.
Another experimental way I've seen was if your using a Co2 generator, you crank it up to 4000ppm for 4 hours, and then vent. Supposedly this high rise in Co2 kills most things dead without affecting your plants but again, not something I've tried myself.
Ladybugs would be my recommendation but mainly just because they look very cool crawling over your plants
:Sharing One:
thanks Namvet25 iv found a bottle of bug clear its organic contains natural active ingredient so this do the job :thumbs: i give a hit tonight 
thank Captain H i would use ladybugs when i see them, i save them and put them in me tent,as it not bad im going use me organic spray on them as iv got it here,
i would use ladybugs when i see them, i save them and put them in me tent,as it not bad im going use me organic spray on them as iv got it here,
Captain Howdy
A Lost Soul
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A good thing to try with your next round of plants is to place strips of tin foil (Just a few small squares) on the top soil. The reflective material confuses the thrips and stops them from flying down and laying eggs in the soil. Just in case there're a few stragglers left behind once you've harvested
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A good thing to try with your next round of plants is to place strips of tin foil (Just a few small squares) on the top soil. The reflective material confuses the thrips and stops them from flying down and laying eggs in the soil. Just in case there're a few stragglers left behind once you've harvested
AndyBotwin
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A good thing to try with your next round of plants is to place strips of tin foil (Just a few small squares) on the top soil. The reflective material confuses the thrips and stops them from flying down and laying eggs in the soil. Just in case there're a few stragglers left behind once you've harvested
In all my years I don't think I've ever heard that, Cap. Though knock on wood, I've never had to battle thrips.
for the info!
yep cap i be on it even if,they all gone i well still use the foil on the soil :thumbs:
Captain Howdy
A Lost Soul
A pleasure dude, hope you never need to use it 
There's something out there called reflective mulch, this is just a cheap mans version
Thanks for the rep bro, much appreciated
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There's something out there called reflective mulch, this is just a cheap mans version
Thanks for the rep bro, much appreciated
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:Gary: Kudo, my friend, sucky to hear about this challenging vermin! Jm has a good article on them: https://www.autoflower.org/content/136-what-thrips.html
... I battled them too last season outside, and had great results with spray product with Spinosad in it, and some diatomaceous earth on the soil surface,... Spinosad is a substance made by a special type bacteria, and it acts like a neurotoxin to a certain kinds of bugs (pretty broad spectrum),... it's rated safe for organic gardening, as it doesn't have harmful effects on most other creatures and never on plants... I don't know what's available in your part of the world, but there should be some product at a garden centre or nursery.... I would add extra wetting agent to it as well,.... I saw no negative impact on the plants, and the thrips were sickened soon after spraying, dead the next day,...I see very little residue from it on leaves, most likely from the wetting agent, so I think it's okay for budding plants (I used it at that time, keeping most of it away from the buds themselves)...
Another excellent product is Axamax (General Hydroponics), a neem derived spray, that is okay to apply right up to harvest, so they say,... seen lots of good results here with it....OMRI listed...
Pyrethrum sprays are also a fine choice, also organic certf., food safe, etc.,... made from chrysanthemums!
The article will tell you about their life cycle, but in short eggs are not laid in soil, instead they get place on or in the plant tissues; larvae hatch, feed, then drop into the soil to pupate, emerge as adults and climb back up to feed again,... so, this is where the DE comes into play... at the microscopic level, DE is made up of the shell-like frames aquatic algae build around their bodies; these are made of CaCO3, or more often SiO2 (glass); to the bugs, it's like nasty sharp glass shards they have to crawl over, which punctures their bodies and they bleed out! plus, it has some nute' value from the Si....
So, brv,.. :firedevil:
:thumbs: kill kill kill!!! -oh yh.... :smoke:
... I battled them too last season outside, and had great results with spray product with Spinosad in it, and some diatomaceous earth on the soil surface,... Spinosad is a substance made by a special type bacteria, and it acts like a neurotoxin to a certain kinds of bugs (pretty broad spectrum),... it's rated safe for organic gardening, as it doesn't have harmful effects on most other creatures and never on plants... I don't know what's available in your part of the world, but there should be some product at a garden centre or nursery.... I would add extra wetting agent to it as well,.... I saw no negative impact on the plants, and the thrips were sickened soon after spraying, dead the next day,...I see very little residue from it on leaves, most likely from the wetting agent, so I think it's okay for budding plants (I used it at that time, keeping most of it away from the buds themselves)...
Another excellent product is Axamax (General Hydroponics), a neem derived spray, that is okay to apply right up to harvest, so they say,... seen lots of good results here with it....OMRI listed...
Pyrethrum sprays are also a fine choice, also organic certf., food safe, etc.,... made from chrysanthemums!
The article will tell you about their life cycle, but in short eggs are not laid in soil, instead they get place on or in the plant tissues; larvae hatch, feed, then drop into the soil to pupate, emerge as adults and climb back up to feed again,... so, this is where the DE comes into play... at the microscopic level, DE is made up of the shell-like frames aquatic algae build around their bodies; these are made of CaCO3, or more often SiO2 (glass); to the bugs, it's like nasty sharp glass shards they have to crawl over, which punctures their bodies and they bleed out! plus, it has some nute' value from the Si....
So, brv,.. :firedevil:
:thumbs: kill kill kill!!! -oh yh.... :smoke:
