getting rid of thrips

[dr.kenbongwater]

i used a bottle of safers insecticidle soap and its not aggressive enough is there anything else that will work? I don't want to lose this strain so i have killed off the original moms keeping the different clones in a 2foot by four foot ebb and flow. I am not sure if the moms even had itI killed them because i didn't prune them right and they got out of hand in height.

 

[Guest]

I used safers soap and it seemed to get rid of most of them, but there was always a few slithering around. THe safers left weird spots on the leaves and took a month for the smell to go away.

I also tried a garlic, cayenne pepper spray. Seemed to worked, but made my plant smell like a fastfood joint.

I spent hours outside in the blistering summer sun just hand picking at those little bastards. I havent gotten any since goin indoors.

 

[Brownpants]

Here is a thread that can help.

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=14328&highlight=thrips

This thread is good too!

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=17326&highlight=thrips

At least they aren't mites....Those bastards are tough.

 

[dr.kenbongwater]

yeah its frickin weird the ground is like frozen tundra and i get tthrips i think i got them from the growstore or a bag of there sunshine mix or grow rocks its to cold here for me to track them in thank you for replies, yeah i also have some weird spotting its like the salt buildup from the soap or something
yeah haha thats what i keep saying well atleast it aint ,mites my luck though that will be next weeks problem

 

[dr.kenbongwater]

anyone ever heard of carbaryl? is it safe

 

[Guest]

Mites, fungas gnats = all out mother fuggin WAR !!!

Nuke the bastards. Pyrethrine bombs.

Then laugh at the carcasses in a few hours....and stomp their lifeless heads in ....

I hang No Pest Strips but had to resort to Gnatrol one week from harvest after getting invaded by fungus gnats. Fuggers. I killed them all......

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

I have thrips at the moment. I am hating it badly. The worst of it is I am about out and it may be a long time before I have more.

I just got done spraying with neem oil. I also did a soil drench as well.

The plant that will be ready to harvest this week or next was sprayed with the neem oil as well but not drenched.

I know most would say not to use neem this close to harvest but I water cure so this should nto present a problem. I hope. I have also put a 1 inch layer of fine sand on top of the soil. I need to find a way to protect the holes at the bottom of the pot as I have noticed they congragate around there also.

I was using the NPS and will bring them back out tomorrow. I am trying to hit them with two weapons. I am also thinking of nicotene spray again-this time using extra cigerettes to brew it. I also put serious garlic oil and pepper juice in the spray.

I may even get a pyrethrin TR fogger if I must. The last resort is to break everything down and sterilize everything. ARRRGGG!

I also spent an hour cleaning my cabinet and shed. I vacuumed and sprayed bleachwater (10%) everywhere. I did this 6 days ago also.

I will say this-I will take better precautions to not get them again to be sure.

minds_I

 

[Ronley]

The best and safest method to elliminate spider mites and thrips is to:
Get 5-6 of the most potent strongest chili peppers that you can find red or green ones.

Blend them up with 2 cups of warm water and strain.

Spray the chili solution onto your leaves (top and underside of leaves). Try to avoid the buds, but if it gets onto the buds its ok, NOTHING will happen to the buds.

You can spray this onto seedling, vegging, flowering plants, buds and its fine, Does no harm to the plant - JUST THE MITES AND THRIPS.
Repeat for a few days until the mites are dead.

Caution: do not get the solution on your hands, or in your eyes.


this tip is from Wernard Positronic seeds.

I promise that is is very effective and works every time.
Dont make a large batch of this as it does go off after a short while,

 

[Guest423]

i tried all the safers and pepper before and it helped but didn't totally work. if you ever get mites,thrips, ect. the best way to go is using beneficial insects. what you need for thrips is an insect called predator nematode....do a search on them they work awesome.....if you need a web address i know where you can get 1,000,000 of them for $19.95.....if your humidity is 70-85% then you'll want to look at the cucumeris they are a different insect for higher humidity....hope this helps!!

p.s. you can get rid of mites in a few days with predator mites for future reference

peace

 

[Wrecked]

Well I first think mites are easier to deal with than thrips well thats just me as i easily killed my mite prblem... I have battled thrips for a while and with what you are doing you are spraying only killing the adults. There is a egg a nd nyph cyle that cant be kille din those sprays. You have to kill the egg larvae stage to fix the prooblem.. I was going to throw away every plant i had for a while and not grw for 3 month and then start back up but didnt want to losse my moms so i decicded to battle.
Chili is good clogs my sprayer though and works on the adults. You can see teh egssunderneath your leaves...
I am cleaener now than ever before with dealing with these fuckers and they spread quick.
Organocide is a larvacide that works for thrip larvae. Another larvacide is gnatrol. I would suggest using them both and work on th elarvae. As you will never solve the problem without it. I spray also with bang and some 91% iso and battled a teriible infestaton to almost nothing if any but they are some sneaky fuckers more tricky than the mite for me.
Also at lowes home depot they hae some bti mosquito dunks that i place in the water. Thrips seem to reproduce around water and teh dunks have been in my setup while i fixed teh prolem and i think they defiinitly helped. I tried almost 10-15 different products before i found out what was working in my setup. They can be frustrating to say the leastm so i feel your pain stay on top of it... Hope you kil them fuckers... I also have no clue of where i got them... PeAcE


http://ipmofalaska.homestead.com/files/thrips.html
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7429.html

 

[DocLeaf]

Hi all

Thrip are relatively harmless to plant-life (in comparison to mites). However, I like to use a product called 'Natural Pest Control' (available in the UK). It's a natural insecticide for use on Indoor and Outdoor Flowers, Fruit & Vegetables. (for use on edible crops!)...contains Pyrethrins...it will happily control green/black/whitefly, caterpillar (remove these by hand) and mites, so thrips really don't stand a chance!

* Note that these sprays will NOT control infestations,, so use as a preventative rather than a cure!
** NEVER spray cannabis plants after 4week bloom!!
*** Beware some sprays designed for thrip are oil based and can really shag cannabis plants (clogging stomata)!

peace dL

 

[Guest]

oi..

YOU HAVE ALL BEEN LINKED TO THE TWO MOST COMPREHENSIVE THRIP THREADS IC MAG HAS TO OFFER, YET STILL, THIS THREAD CONTINUES..

SEE BROWNPANTS' POST FOR THE TWO LINKS, AND LOOK NO FURTHER..

..sorry for screaming, but you people writing responses are just reverberatin what has been said many times already, if the people asking these questions and continually posting these repeatative threads would just use a simple search...alas, laziness wins, helpful people lose b/c their time online could have been better spent, providing help for those with questions that can't be found in EASILY SEARCHABLE older threads...hell, BP even linked yas and no one even acknowledged him, i know i took a good hour to write reply #2 in that second link, and many here are wasting their time even reading this, nevermind me writing it.peace.

 

[Verite]

Yep. the biggest crime is not calling the search engine a silver spoon.

 

[dr.kenbongwater]

hey i can't be on here all day i checked back and i got a bunch of responses thank you all for your input vey helpful i just can't find a supplier locally with pyrethrins in it but i think they are doing well i'll post a pic later. I think were i failed was not reckognizing the problem sooner

 

[DocLeaf]

dr. kenbongwater,

take a look at the local garden centre for a spray with pyrethrins... those hydro shops often fall short on biological products. peace DL

 

[MedUser420]

If you are using co2 blast the room with 5,000 -10,000 ppms for several hours. This is the only method that worked for me, 100% eradication!

 

[dr.kenbongwater]

here are the plants now look any better
btw doc the hydro shop carries a pyrethrin product but its a fogger

I never thought of killing something by ashyxia well a couple of my ex girlfriends thanks med user

 

[zedhead3]

I had a problem with thrips for several months, wanting to keep it organic tried home-made tobacco, chilli & garlic sprays, neem, predator mites but still they kept coming back, making a right mess of my mother plants. Also the organic sprays made the plants more prone to mould attacks as did the the 'sprinkle on' predator mites because they were mixed with bran, which seemed to stick permanently to the leaves as I misted the plants first to stop the mites falling off.. Doh..!

Then I started experimenting with tea-tree oil to combat suspected leaf spot mold as well as thrips. This seemed to work at first but when I combined tea-tree and neem oils together in a folair spray it really had an effect on the thrips. The only plants I didn't spray were some in mid bloom so on these I've hung blue sticky traps. After re-cloning all my mother plants and spraying the fresh clones with teatree & neem, both my veg areas are now totally clear of thrips. I have seen the odd young thrip on a particularly suseptable plant thats in bloom but generally the flowering crop is 99% free of new thrip damage, I just need to check the suseptable flowering plant regularly.

The dosage for the folair spray is: 5ml pure neem oil, 5ml pure tea-tree oil, about 5ml biodegradable dish-detergent mixed with 1 litre water. Both neem and tea-tree oil have strong anti-fungal properties, though neem also contains nutrients that can damage sensitive plants if used often, tea-tree is much more tolerated. I used the spray everyday for 3 or 4 days at a time over about 2 weeks and it really has done job well, no more thrips..!

Peace
Zed

 

[minds_I]

ZH3,

Did you use neem oil drenches?

minds_I

 

[zedhead3]

MindsI, not for the soil no.. I have done before but I find neem oil can clog up the soil somewhat. In the past I always used neem as a root/soil drench for fungus gnats and when the thrips appeared it was the first thing I tried but it didn't work. So I decided to try different homemade foilar sprays.
I have read that thrips can be in the soil too but as I re-cloned all my stock I've got rid of the old, possibly infected soil.


Zed