For sure man, totally understand. To be honest, I'm not too fussed. I've had serious issues in the past, spider mites and other pests, never had an issue smoking them.. HAHA!
.Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking. It's far too late in the game now for me.Not a whole lot you can do this late in the game, unfortunately. Not without contaminating the buds. Pointless to do a root drench or whatever at this point if you ask me, because they are all over the plants hiding in different life cycle stages that can last quite awhile anyway. Even if you kill em, you'll be smokin em
They don't really attack the main flowers all that much appearance wise, but they might pepper there way up into some of the sugar leaves. Its like they come out and have feeding frenzies all at once too, and do a lot of damage when your not looking. Sometimes the bigger adult flyers (probably what you seen) crawl up into buds and die. Little $%&^ers can get stuck in the trichromes trying to lay eggs, leading to little mold\bud rot spots here and there, on top of infecting the plant\roots with other diseases\pathogens that have you chasing deficiencies, etc... I really dislike thrips. Its the main nuisance pest that constantly attacks my grows year after year now, lol. They're everywhere around outside now days it seems, so a never ending battle?
They are hard to see until its a problem too. Not so much a problem with dwc plants & way more manageable with no grow mediums IME. Or when I'm vigilantly ocd the whole time with IPM, and also bomb the heck out of the place (not in my house of course) with no pest strips before starting over fresh.. Some years are worse too, and there are multiple breeds of them all over the world.. 1000's if i'm not mistaken.. Some possibly becoming resistant to some pesticides I've heard.. Yikes!
I am totally onboard and definitely WON'T be using any spray. The infestation seems limited to only the bigger fan leaves. If I time it right, I should still end with a decent harvest.
high co2 levels will kill critters too
Sure will! However Mr ChatGPT says I will need at least 3kg of CO2 at consistent levels to kill off pests over 24 hours - cost wise, this doesn't seem reasonable. Maybe GPT is wrong & the PPM of CO2 doesn't need to be as high - some study I read said 30% CO2 levels over 24 hours kills 100% of thrips - tho 30% CO2, over 24 hours surely will kill the plants also ...
i read about it when i had spider mites awhile back. it was either 3000 or 5000ppms but i don't remember for how long.
Be careful and let us know if it works, or if you find more info about it.I am totally onboard and definitely WON'T be using any spray. The infestation seems limited to only the bigger fan leaves. If I time it right, I should still end with a decent harvest.
I bought an ozone generator and I'll keep everyone posted. I'm going to pickup one tomorrow from my friend to test in the meantime - we'll see how it goes.
I did put up some yellow sticky pads around the grow tent, under the plants, above the plants, between the plants. Hopefully the fuckers get stuck to the pads!
Death to the thrips!
Crazy! Hehe. I've been fortunate, touch wood, I've had no serious outbreaks in this house. Except these freaking thrips! Oh well, it's all trial and error. I have hopes for the ozone - keep an eye on this space over the next couple of weeks, I'll definitely keep everyone informed.
For sure bro, definitely not spraying the flowers. I'll be testing ozone - hopefully that kills the bastards. I'll nuke the pricks till they're all dead.
