collective gardener
Well-Known Member
Right now, we're leaning on the Spinosad. It has halted the infestation from increasing, and we hope continued applications will knock em out. I have had horrible results applying Pyrethrin on any plants 3 weeks or more into bloom....drastic yield reduction. I actually used pyrethrin for most of my career on these problems. Since I was spraying the entire room, I didn't really notice the yield reduction too much....until I was running a flip settup. I got bugs in one room and not the other. The room I sprayed yielded 20% less than the unsprayed room. Since then, I've been afraid of it in bloom. What about azamax on blooming plants?good ol' neem + peppermint dr. bronner's for preventative, pyrethrin-based pesties if we have to. if you can still find the original safer's endall, (not endall2, which is a different formulation, apparently, we found that out the hard way -- thanks safers ), it's quite effective.
also d. earth on soil surface and around pot rims to prevent spread (no leaf touching either!) for crawlers.
in other news, my bestie has bedbugs. do you think spinosad would be good against them?
For right now, we're going to keep blasting them with the Spinosad. One application wiped out the thrips. My buddy who told me about it says it takes several applications to get rid of mites, but that it will work. Once we get these under control, I'm going to be using the spinosad every 2-3 weeks as a preventative. The stuff just doesn't seem to affect the plants at all. We're setting off a Doctor Doom Bomb in the veg room tomorrow to prevent anything in there.
Thanks to all for the info. If the Spinosad does not wipe them out, I'll be using either the azomax or the avid, depending on what you all tell me about application in mid bloom.