About your thrips. I am fighting them as well, more at work than at home. Go to Walmart or somewhere that has canning supplies, get Food Grade Citric Acid Powder. It is no expensive, mix it 2 teaspoons per liter and spray those ladies down all over, tops and bottoms of leaves. spray the top of the soil a bit for the ones that have fallen off into the soil. get Blue sticky traps. Alternative to spray and pray is to dunk the entire plant in the mix. now that will take quite a bit of citric acid, but it is what i did at work. I did something like 700ML in 15 gallons of water. then added some Athena IPM to the mix for extra kick. I dipped each of our 75 clones in this concoction, submerged 30 seconds and shake a little. Most of the little shits let go or die before they come out, I saw no larvae on them today. only issue i see with it is very minor leaf curl, and i mean barely noteworthy. At home my outbreak is small, i have ordered A. Cucumeris mites to do the work for me.