Thrips? sorry for double post

i thought i posted this in bugs first... but anyway.

So, i work in OK. 6 months at this job, Start up grow. I basically run 2 container grows. A veg and flower container, this is in the flower container that i flipped to flower about 8 days ago. I was inspecting plants for Herms after i saw our Ghost Train Haze has Hermed. Now i find these little shits, and I am near certain they are Thrips yes? the damage looks right, and the little fuckers look right. We just got some IPM in and i think im going to spray the piss out of the plants today before lights out, especially any with this damage. Any advice is welcome.

Melquides said:

i thought i posted this in bugs first... but anyway.

So, i work in OK. 6 months at this job, Start up grow. I basically run 2 container grows. A veg and flower container, this is in the flower container that i flipped to flower about 8 days ago. I was inspecting plants for Herms after i saw our Ghost Train Haze has Hermed. Now i find these little shits, and I am near certain they are Thrips yes? the damage looks right, and the little fuckers look right. We just got some IPM in and i think im going to spray the piss out of the plants today before lights out, especially any with this damage. Any advice is welcome.

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Yes sir you are correct! Thrips they are!

Kill them … kill them all.

Melquides said:

i thought i posted this in bugs first... but anyway.

So, i work in OK. 6 months at this job, Start up grow. I basically run 2 container grows. A veg and flower container, this is in the flower container that i flipped to flower about 8 days ago. I was inspecting plants for Herms after i saw our Ghost Train Haze has Hermed. Now i find these little shits, and I am near certain they are Thrips yes? the damage looks right, and the little fuckers look right. We just got some IPM in and i think im going to spray the piss out of the plants today before lights out, especially any with this damage. Any advice is welcome.

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good soaking with Spinosad right at lights out 8 days in no problem.

thumper60 said:

good soaking with Spinosad right at lights out 8 days in no problem.

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we do no have spinosad, i have neem and Athena IPM available. planning to use the athena, lights kick out in about an hour and a half. doing some test mixes soon to see what it takes to kill the little shits

Update. I have been winning the fight. Numbers of fliers way down. Larvae are now few and far between. First I sprayed them with Athena IPM at treatment strength on the bottle. It did knock a chunk of the larvae out. Then I test sprayed them with my base citric acid spray, 2 tsp per liter, also effective. still after a couple we days i saw new larvae. Had the bright idea to mix up 15 Gallons of water in one of our water cans, dumped about 700 ML of citric acid powder in, about 350 ml of the Athena IPM i think , Testing along the way up to see what strength killed them with a dunk.

Dipped the clones in (root ball OUT) for about 30 seconds and shake around a bit. Extremely effective. Hard to find any larvae at all now. Blue traps are working fairly for fliers. Winning is Fun. Also cant be bad preventative for WPM. Some of the little bug uglies made it home to my place. I ordered some Cucumeris to see how they do there.