Found some thrips 1st day of week 3 flower. Too late for spinosad?

Im in organic soil in week day 15 of flower for some 8 week strains. I saw one thrip and did some searching and found some more here and there, nothing serious. I couldnt even find any leaf damage yet from them. Wondering if its too late to apply some organic spinosad. I dont want it to effect my flavor at all with any residues. Should I just let them run there course? I know they dont reproduce nearly as fast as mites and dont do as much damage either.
Also some people were saying pyrithrum bomb but I dont think those things are totaly safe and have a bunch of other shit in the can thats not organic.

I also have one of those fogger sprayers that I could do a fine mist type application of monteray spionsad.

Idk but don't bomb I think that's bad idea

jaked3800 said:

Im in organic soil in week day 15 of flower for some 8 week strains. I saw one thrip and did some searching and found some more here and there, nothing serious. I couldnt even find any leaf damage yet from them. Wondering if its too late to apply some organic spinosad. I dont want it to effect my flavor at all with any residues. Should I just let them run there course? I know they dont reproduce nearly as fast as mites and dont do as much damage either.
Also some people were saying pyrithrum bomb but I dont think those things are totaly safe and have a bunch of other shit in the can thats not organic.

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Citric acid.

Hollatchaboy said:

Citric acid.

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Buy powdered citric acid from the grocery store dilute and spray with a sprayer or my fogger sprayer?

I had a bad run in with thrips.. Well, not really, I had similar to what you described, a few here and there but no real signs of an infestation..

I did 6 treatments with 1tbsp (3tsp) citric acid per quart water every other day for 12 days.. by the next day after the spray they were back.
I did one treatment of neem/dish soap, they were back two days later.
I did two treatments of monteray spionsad with two days in between and they stayed gone. I caught mine 48 hours after flipping to 12/12 so I went back to 18/6 to treat them.. I cannot say if it's ok to apply at wk3

I can say the citric acid will destroy your flowers and leaves and you will probably feel like you should have just started over. In doing so it will set you back a bit, it will also affect your harvest and the stress could cause the plants to have other issues..

Also if you don't take care not to allow too much water in the medium or you may also see ph issues.

be careful and weigh your options as quickly as possible - Best of luck!

jaked3800 said:

Buy powdered citric acid from the grocery store dilute and spray with a sprayer or my fogger sprayer?

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If you're just starting out, I'd get the amazing Dr zymes, and follow the directions on the bottle. I've used it for thrips. It got rid of the thrips, and I've never had any damage to plant tissue, as long as you do it before lights out.

Once you start to show pistils, options narrow rapidly, very few things you can spray later. Mostly contact sprays like mentioned above.

Go to the bottom of the page, there's a link to excel list of common fungucides and pesticides for pot, has all the active ingedients listed.
At least you'll have some starting point references for pest management in organic soil.

Spinosad works wonders, although unless you have an indoors major infestation, thrips aren't a major deal. If you're concerned about the buds, just spray it on the leaves, although I've sprayed it directly into buds before when I saw a budworm here and there. I never noticed it making the smoke harsh or affecting the taste. Kills most nuisance bugs and can be used up to harvest

Spinosad ends up systemic if you follow whatever the "tomato" application would be for whatever brand you got. It's possible to spray the leaves in flower and it'll still be effective. I had a sudden infestation explode. I was even putting that stuff in some waterings.

Oh I bought thuricide on accident early in the Great Veg Tent War and pretty sure it killed the adult ones.