Thrip question....

[louie]

Need some advice......
Yeah, it sucks I have been slacking lately (super busy) and just realized I have thrips a little worse than I thought. The big problem is that I am literally just about to harvest. I discovered that the problem is a little worse than I originally thought last night as I started to harvest. I was going to harvest first and then bomb the room with a pyrethrum fogger, but thought about the fact that I will be spreading the thrips to other parts of the house while I am harvesting. Then I thought that I could drop a pyrethrum bomb first and then harvest a day or two later, but have always heard this would not be good. So what should I do? Should I harvest and risk spreading them to other parts of the house and deal with the problem once the room is empty? or is there another option? thanks everyone

 

[louie]

awww, no ideas.....its all good. I think Im just going to take everything down first

 

[resin_lung]

If it were me I'd just wait to bomb the room. Your just close to harvest. even though some of those bombs say you can use a couple of days after application, I wouldn't. I would imagine that the damage is done anyways. Also, this way maybe the thrips will climb off during drying. If you bomb their gonna die on the plant plus the possible residue. just my opinion. Never dealt with thrips that late into flower.

 

[hieagle420]

buy this and you can harvest 2 days after you spray it on your plants..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=270328319993

i had a infestation right b4 harvest and i did use it and harvested 3 days later no ill effects.. all it is is spinosad.. Keep It Green and Stay Safe..HE

oh you also need to drench the soil or what ever you grow in with it that is where they breed..

 

[Bulldog11]

Harvest close to your room so the spread of thrips isn't all over your house. Then bomb for thrips. Don't jeopardize your 3 months of hard work, just wait and be thorough.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Don't spray anything, just wait and harvest. After harvest, clean the room and spray the new plants in vegetation.
Is there enough Ventilation and what temperatures you had in the room?

 

[shaunmulok]

We used to use a spray containing Spinosad on our commercial tomato crop it was approved by the health board because it evaporates after 48 hours and leaves no residuals on the plant matter do some research but if you are close to harvest i would wait and then bomb ya room and get some preventative sprays to stop them coming back
Good luck

 

[Dr. G]

Monterrey garden insect spray is god

itll get rid of them wtih a light application for about 8 mths

not sure if i dont get them all or i just reinfect from outside but i wont see them for at least 6mths after an aplication

 

[JustanotherDave]

I'll throw in with a few other posters...just harvest and start dealing with it after. Nothing will matter now...just harvest first

 

[Blue Dot]

Harvest, then spinosad "bomb" (spray room).

 

[hieagle420]

Don't spray anything, just wait and harvest. After harvest, clean the room and spray the new plants in vegetation.
Is there enough Ventilation and what temperatures you had in the room?

this isnt gonna stop them.. if they are already in his veg room.. and ventilation and temp isnt going to control them.. Spinosad will kill off all thrips .. just gotta drench the soil and spray all plants.. believe me i know.. Keep It Green and Stay Safe..HE

 

[Verite]

Lotta mixed answers here. Bottom line is if you spray or bomb anything on plants that are a few days from harvest and I dont care what the instructions say you WILL taste nasty crap on those buds. Not worth it. Harvest the ready plants and then deal with the bugs.

 

[JACKtheREFFER]

We used to use a spray containing Spinosad on our commercial tomato crop it was approved by the health board because it evaporates after 48 hours and leaves no residuals on the plant matter do some research but if you are close to harvest i would wait and then bomb ya room and get some preventative sprays to stop them coming back
Good luck

i second that spinosad is the way to go ... you can spray perty much anytime but i wouldnt spray late in harvest ............ and the little buggers will bug out

 

[ddrew]

Give me a couple weeks and I will be able to tell you what a plant sprayed moderately with Monterey Garden Insect spray 4 days before harvest tastes like as I was infested as hell and sprayed everything, and that included one white rhino coming down in a couple days.

If its taste is a bit off I can live with that as every MF'ing thrip in that room is dead now.
Monterey dropped them in a matter of hours.
The same thrips laughed off a heavy spray of sucra-shield like it was nothing.

 

[Verite]

Heres my reasoning behind it [ beside the fact I wouldnt spray anything on my plants at least three weeks before harvest ] and the difference between mites and thrips. Mites are fairly stupid and dont have wings as adults. So they will hatch, spin webs, and generally run amok all over on a freshly chopped plant even long after its all dried up. Mites have a piercing mouth thats able to feed/suck on leaves till they are just about dried up. Thrips dont.

Thrips have a rasping mouth structure that needs to scrape the surface of a living leaf in order to feed. Remove the 'living' part of the equation on the plant and the thrip needs to move soon in order to survive. High cellulose plants with little hard wood fiber like weed needs good steady amounts of water to maintain turgor pressure between the cells so the plant stays upright. Remove the water and the turgor pressure drops between the cells and the plant wilts. Replace the water soon enough and turgor pressure returns.

Without the turgor pressure nothing comes out when a thrip rasps the leaf surface and turgor pressure drops considerably within hours of cutting a plant down. The second factor that makes thrips want to leave the plant is the thrip life cycle. Thrips have two life cycle stages where they want to be below the soil surface. [ I have personally seen a bad thrip outbreak permeate the entire length of a 5 gallon container of soil.]

Remove the plant from the soil and you have effectively cut off that stage of their life cycle and killed them in the process. Thrips are genius level smart compared to mites, they will move to find food/survive and numberswise there will be less thrips to smoke in the final product than if you killed them with spray on the plant.

 

[ddrew]

Good info, sounds like I will be smoking some thrips then.
People will ask
What's that unique flavor that I taste, and can't quite name?
I'll say "Thrips!"

 

[subrob]

very important point. i have made the mistake of killing whats above the soil and not drenching the soil. continue the drench for two to three weeks of veg time. thrips suck......

this isnt gonna stop them.. if they are already in his veg room.. and ventilation and temp isnt going to control them.. Spinosad will kill off all thrips .. just gotta drench the soil and spray all plants.. believe me i know.. Keep It Green and Stay Safe..HE

 

[louie]

Awesome info. everyone, much appreciated! Sorry it took me a few days to get back on....it was a crazy weekend, in a good way lol. I ended up chopping everything and am going to clean every inch and use spinosad to kill them all. I'm looking at the situation in the best light I can, and figure that this will give me an opportunity to do some rebuilding and updates that I have been waiting to do for a while. I've been using neem and safer soap on the girls vegging so everything should be good. spinosad= another weapon in the arsonal yesss!