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Hillbilly Thrip detection 101

Tonygreen

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So I got a case of the cooties in my veg room, musta brought em in.

Well if you cant tell you got the thrips youll know from yer seedlings dieing off suddenly slow growth no vigor on young uns, mutated lookin new growth are all some signs.

Well one of the easiest ways to be sure you got em is take your little plant and what I figured out is if you hold em real close to yer lamp when its hot youll see the little fuckers start droppin off within seconds, the larvae do little backflips and shit and spring off, the adults jump off or fly off, couple ell try hidin in some little curled leaves but youll see em fallin like snow. Just dont hold yer young un there too long or touch the bulb too a growin tip or youll singe it.

So then Im smokin me a cigarette and start sweatin cuz now i finally seen the little bastards. So what I did was took a big ol puff of smoke and breathed it out real slow on a tip and bam them little fuckers took off, sure dont like smoke. Then stead of blowin I start waving my cigarette tip along the branches real close and kinda slow with the smoke filterin up through em bam they start poppin off and flyin off and jumpin off all crazy. One of the little bastard hit the cherry of my smoke and popped like a little popcorn poof.

Fuckers killed off 4 sour bubble and 3 killer queen sprouts and 2 white s1 along with 2 gg4 x sb little fucks and my veg is behind schedule a few weeks with sramy sick plants... I watered with some mosquito dunk water. Goona get somethin with Spinosad in it tomorrow. Fuckers fuckin up my veg ad kiillin my babies. I stabbed a few of em with my cig cherry too just to hear em pop and sizzle, fuckers, tomorrow its time to call in the air strike.
 

dansbuds

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That sux dude !!! but luckily they're pretty easy to kill . glad ya found them before they killed off to many other little ones .

good luck brutha .... & the spinosad should take care of them .
 

Tonygreen

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Burned a couple pretty good findin out how long was too long by the light.
The mmoked out sample blew up afterward the next two days though.



Smoke detection is feasible, the light trick is good for a show but its hard to judge they cant taker very much more than a few seconds up there next to that bulb, gotta be pretty careful, they was ate up pretty bad anyway. Most of my white s1 got beat up bad but theyll make it little bigger than seedlings, one is clean as a whistle they leave it alone for some reason.

Im pissed tomorrow Ima bomb these fuckers good.
 

Tonygreen

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Minus the curled and dark burn dmg thats what they all looked like, the smoke treated one took off a bit in the last two days.

I read a paper said you can drown your plants underwater in cold water for up to fifteen minutes with no ill affects. I wanna try but these little beat up seedlings aint taking up much water cuz they been munched to death.
 

Tonygreen

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you can see some on the big healthiest lookin one in that pic, larvae of em ctually, little red lines if ya zoom in, bastards.
 

Elements001

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yeah, its gotta be them bastards messing with my seedling. Ive never seen em though, kinda strange. Just the occasional gnat in flower, but I havnt seen any bugs in my veg for some months. IM thinking it's because I dont do my usual treatment with the solo cups that I do when I transplant them into 1.7 gal since I didnt want to hurt the seedlings in anyway.

Have you noticed with the adults, do they have little pincher looking things almost on their tails?


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have some leftover azamax, think I'll try that and see how it goes first. Looks like it will help control but not eliminate them. Definitely getting spinosad very soon regardless.
 

Elements001

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yep, gotta be them thirps. Put here right under the 400 mh yesterday and this morning I could see a vigorous growth burst, but much of the leaves there are pretty damaged from the bastards. Looks like the light burnt the eggs inside the leaf tissue or something. All my other plants are at the same distance from the bulb so its not really the heat I'd think.

You can see all sorts of orangish spots now that werent there yesterday before I put them in the hot spot. There were a light green/pale whiteish color and not as many before. I feel this is a good sign though, now maybe the plant can start to take a hold.

Hard to tell but the new growth double in size from what it was yesterday, and was stalled at that point for about 4-5 days before hand.

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Elements001

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Man, after putting that seedling under the hotter spot in the light its just about cleared out the thirps, she's really springing back. Hope I didnt stress it too much, but we'll see. SHould definitely be a keeper either male or female if it make it through no herms after that shit storm of a start :)
 

Tonygreen

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yup hillbilly 101, dont fuck around get that shit i told you montgomeries, spray all you plants and root drench em.
 

Tonygreen

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Little bastards dont like the heat, I had one that blew up after killin em too. Get that montgomeries dont fuck around treat everything you got.

little bastards can cause alot fo damageand affect final quality ALOt. most people focus on the mites and theseb astards slide through,,,
 

Elements001

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Nice, right on man. Think I may just order some today. Thinking that may be why my girls havnt been finishing up as frosty as they used to.

Is that stuff the same stuff you cant use when lights are on because of burning, or am I thinking of something else?

Oh yeah, I dont have a ton of girls and everythings in 1.7 gallon pots, you think the pint would be enough to cover me, or should I go with a quart just in case?
 

Elements001

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Oh yeah, and did you order from that site, and if so how long did it take to ship? I can get the same thing off amazon for like $6 more, but if the one you linked ships fast I wont bother w/ amazon.
 
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