[mickio]

hiya its my first grow and I am due to harvest in about 2 weeks but I have had Thrips for the past 2 weeks and cant shift them.I am using Genius oil at the moment but I am worried they will still be there when I come to harvest. Any advice would be excellent.Thanks

[RockyMountainHi]

Originally Posted by st0ne

I've been looking for a supplier in Canada. Nothing...
I can't even locate a US company that will ship.

Any links?

One word: eBay

[MeltingPOT]

Great thread....thrips are my nemasis. I get pissed off, cuz I am pretty sure that they are smarter than me =)

[jugdishe]

do thrips get into media such as rockwool and
can Monterey Garden Insect Spray be used in reseviors

thanks for all your help on this topic

[leaf19]

Monterey Garden Insect Spray is hard to find :-/

[GREENREEPER419]

One thing to remember is monteray spray is seriously bad for the lonely little bumble bee, and you should not dump this stuff down the drain when done. It states it's safe the day(s) after aplication, not in it's raw form. Having said that this is the best thing I ever used, knocks them down very fast......

[paulobaca]

Originally Posted by jugdishe

do thrips get into media such as rockwool and
can Monterey Garden Insect Spray be used in reseviors

thanks for all your help on this topic

I foolishly used to keep my presoaked rockwool croutons in a netpot sitting in a bathtub where it could not dry effectively. One time when I picked up the netpot and I noticed dozens of thrips scamper about in the tub (they were underneath the net pot).

I figured out whey those buggers kept coming back. Never had them again. Now I know to keep my netpot where the RW can drain freely off the ground.

I dont think that you need to mix spinosad in the res because it is so effective, I just drenched the media using a spray bottle immediately after a flush (so thristy roots are not uptaking spinosad). May not be worth risking in your rez.

[exer]

the products with Imidacoplrid kill all the thrips too. After one spraying
Confidor SL 200 is one of them.

[ddrew]

Terrible thrips, I have my jug of Monterey Garden Insect Spray, and tonight its the end of the line for these bastards, I hope they suffer.

[ddrew]

Wow, hit the veg cab to start last night, as it had the worst infestation, open it up this morning, nothing but dead thrips laying around on leaves everywhere, F**K yes, and they look kinda shrunk up, like the spinosad sucked the life out of them same as they were doing to my plants, a fitting fate for them I say.

Before the Monterey GI spray I was going to get "safer yard and garden spray" and I asked the guy at the shop if he thought there was anything better for thrips.
Guy ends up talking me into getting a jug of "Sucra-shield" so I take that home and try it and Sucra-Shield Sucra-sucked, and didn't do Sucra-shit for the thrips, if anything they looked happier and more of them the next day.