Thrip infestation during flower

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So I have been battling with a thrip infestation on my plants and wanted to know how do they affect my plants and any ways to get rid of them during flower without affecting the plants too much

I’ve been using diluted bugs be clear which hasn’t really worked so should I really use the full strength stuff or what would you guys suggest?

should I take each plant out of the tent and spray them all over?

many help would be appreciated
 

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Orkin no pest strips worked for me.
Toxic as though.
I used them before flower.
If your in the states you can get spinosad, which everyone seems to have success with.

You can blast em off w water or compressed air but take care not to spread them and create another problem area.

Bugs suck, best of luck!
 
I have bought some blue pest traps which I’m going to put up around the room hopefully will help.
we don’t have spinosad here.

do thrips affect yield or affect the plant I. Any way during flower?
 
Never Known said:
I have bought some blue pest traps which I’m going to put up around the room hopefully will help.
we don’t have spinosad here.

do thrips affect yield or affect the plant I. Any way during flower?
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yes any pest causes stress on the plant and stress is never good also even as small as the bites are if ya added them all together you get a decent portion of the leaf matter that could of been used for photosynthesis, I’m struggling with them now and got a handle on em but keep coming back here and there, I have 4 strains going and they only really love one of the four which sux cuz it’s my favorite, I use SNS 203 as a foliar spray
 

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I managed to get rid of them but added over a month veg time to get rid of them.
Stressed and recovering girls I finally flipped. I'm sure has had a negative effect on yields.
I'll be doing a more aggressive preventative measures next time.
 
I Just noticed what i believe is thrips in my Veg tent and in my Flower Tent i found a little bugger. I figure since i am only one week into flower i have atleast two weeks where i can attack with a neem oil / soap combo spray because no buds have yet formed. The girls are still in stretch phase. After this does anybody have any advice on how i can save my crop ? i am super stressed about this infestation i cant believe i let this happen.
 
ABBOI89 said:
I Just noticed what i believe is thrips in my Veg tent and in my Flower Tent i found a little bugger. I figure since i am only one week into flower i have atleast two weeks where i can attack with a neem oil / soap combo spray because no buds have yet formed. The girls are still in stretch phase. After this does anybody have any advice on how i can save my crop ? i am super stressed about this infestation i cant believe i let this happen.
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Spinosad, Bioceres WP, and Venerate are good options against thrips.
 
F**** it i culled the entire crop. Need to catch those buggers in Veg . I decided i dont want to wait 11 weeks for a shitty crop cuz i didt get the bug's or the damage was to extensive. With thrips , if your noticing extensive damage and finding bugs easily than the infestation exists. Prevention is key. I too learned a valuable lesson today when i threw out all of my plants
 
ABBOI89 said:
I Just noticed what i believe is thrips in my Veg tent and in my Flower Tent i found a little bugger. I figure since i am only one week into flower i have atleast two weeks where i can attack with a neem oil / soap combo spray because no buds have yet formed. The girls are still in stretch phase. After this does anybody have any advice on how i can save my crop ? i am super stressed about this infestation i cant believe i let this happen.
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I have dealt with these pests a couple of times and refused to use chemicals or neem etc. If your growing in soil this method is extremely effective as I've wiped them out both times. Since two of the thrips life stages are in the soil I reasoned at the time that interrupting or wiping out 1 or more of these stages should bring an end to the colony over a few weeks.
-First let your soil dry out until your leaves are almost at a droop and break up the top inch or two of the soil in the planter
-Next get out your vacuum and using the hand nozzle suck up every last bit of loose soil (careful of the root zone) and immediately rid the soil from your house.
-Then replace the missing inch or two with fresh clean soil (sterilized if possible) and water if needed, do this every couple to 3 days for at least 2 weeks, 3 being better.
Since the prepupa and pupa stages are at rest in the soil (for at least 4-5 days combined) removing the top layer will rid your planter of these two critical thrip life cycles.
Done enough times they won't have a chance to pupate into an adult and lay more eggs so the colony will die out on it's own.
I found this method most effective (especially during the flower period) and the least invasive (to some degree) Best of all NO chemicals, soaps or oils which are messy and a damn hassle.
Cheers!
 
Geedoubya said:
I have dealt with these pests a couple of times and refused to use chemicals or neem etc. If your growing in soil this method is extremely effective as I've wiped them out both times. Since two of the thrips life stages are in the soil I reasoned at the time that interrupting or wiping out 1 or more of these stages should bring an end to the colony over a few weeks.
-First let your soil dry out until your leaves are almost at a droop and break up the top inch or two of the soil in the planter
-Next get out your vacuum and using the hand nozzle suck up every last bit of loose soil (careful of the root zone) and immediately rid the soil from your house.
-Then replace the missing inch or two with fresh clean soil (sterilized if possible) and water if needed, do this every couple to 3 days for at least 2 weeks, 3 being better.
Since the prepupa and pupa stages are at rest in the soil (for at least 4-5 days combined) removing the top layer will rid your planter of these two critical thrip life cycles.
Done enough times they won't have a chance to pupate into an adult and lay more eggs so the colony will die out on it's own.
I found this method most effective (especially during the flower period) and the least invasive (to some degree) Best of all NO chemicals, soaps or oils which are messy and a damn hassle.
Cheers!
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"killer" method and advice. much appreciated
 
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