I agree that it's not going to kill them off right away. Thrips are a real SOB. But the OP is in flower and there isn't a whole lot of solutions at this point. Straight chemical warfare during veg, but no one wants their bud drenched in spinosad.
I do not see this grow for personal purposes. Anyway hes is about to spray them so hopefully he will report back the results. Curious both ways
Just following up on this - I did try the citric acid at about 2 tsp per quart. That was definitely too much to spray during lights on - got a ton of burn spots on the upper leaves. I did a second application about 5-6 days later at lights out and there was much less damage to the leaves.
plants are actually looking pretty good given how many thrips I had! My plan of attack and by no means is this the best or only way to get it done. I did blue traps with thrip lure, then unleashed about 1000 lady bugs, hit the medium with Athena IPM root drench, did 1 thorough spray of spinosad. Some strain leaves responded better than others but for the most part wasn’t too bad. Then unleashed 10 million amblyseius cucumeris predatory mites. Put new sticky traps and I probably see a few at most on 1 of the traps and some traps have none. Some exotic mike stuff I’m going through right now
I thought you were about to use citric acid? Why the decision has changed? Anyway thanks for update, plants are still flowering well so you have done your job good I guess.
I was, but talked to a friend IRL and he said spinosad was the ticket. I did dunk my clones in citric acid.
Do you know that spinosad will kill the good bugs along with the bad bugs. I don't understand why you would use beneficial insects along with a product that kills them.
I killed off some of the lady bugs, let out the predatory mites after I sprayed… still have lady bugs flying around.. room is coming out proper.
Lady Bugs are Trailer Park Boys approved. Ricky would give you a nod of approval
Good to know. Was very careful spraying leaves only
My First thoughts! Hehe
