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I just noticed a few hairs today. Not even a week I would say. I won’t get the lady bugs for another 10 days though.thrips.
finding any pest after flower begins is a disaster. you can try the lady bugs.
sns might have something safe but i'm not confident. everything chemical is not gonna work now.
how far in to flower are you ? once you show pistils chemicals are pretty much a no go.
Thanks for sharing that. I will try the lady bugs and if that doesn’t work I will try the oil.I have safely sprayed my buds with Neem 3 weeks from flower with no ill effects. I get thrips and the Neem works for them. I use cold pressed and mix 1 tsp / 1 liter of warm water with a plant based soap (surfactant) free of dyes or perfumes.
I just noticed a few hairs today. Not even a week I would say. I won’t get the lady bugs for another 10 days though.
I’m hoping they will work their magic.
I have safely sprayed my buds with Neem 3 weeks from flower with no ill effects. I get thrips and the Neem works for them. I use cold pressed and mix 1 tsp / 1 liter of warm water with a plant based soap (surfactant) free of dyes or perfumes.
Thanks for sharing that. I will try the lady bugs and if that doesn’t work I will try the oil.
I’m so confused as to how they got in my girl.
Thank youyou got about a couple weeks.
i find there's about a 3wk 'safe' window as well.
anything i've used neem with starting at wk 4 has ruined the bud.
The thing with ladybugs is that they stay calm and dormant when kept at a cool temperature because they've been tricked into hibernating. Which means when they warm up they think it's spring time and are VERY ready to do the 'dance with no pants'.
Speaking from experience some will hunt and eat your pest while the rest will either mate or wander off to get stuck in every imaginable nook cranny or crevice in your home.
If you have a pet cat you will not sleep for a few weeks while it crashes through the house all night hunting the escaped ladybugs and ruin their honeymoon LOL.
Maybe it's just my experience though
I dunno, but I would not use Neem.
In fact, I can easily say that I HATE NEEM and will not allow it in the grow area.
If you're gonna use oil, use one that won't mess your flower up. SNS is an oil, and dish soap and water mixture. So is Lost Coast Plant Therapy ... just oil and soap and water.
Or you can save hundreds ... and make your own. Look up the recipe.
but ... who will finish first?ladybug offspring are voracious little assassins though. they'll eventually hoover those thrips up.
In one gallon of distilled water ...can't get either of those two products here at present. sooo .... about said recipe ?
but ... who will finish first?
Will the thrips eat the plant before the ladybugs can eat the thrips?
I put the over/under on that garden at .... 12 days.
Can the bugs eat the bugs in twelve days? smh
I predict ... the thrips win.
In one gallon of distilled water ...
A half oz of peppermint oil, OR rosemary oil NOT BOTH.
One oz of Dawn Dish Soap.
Shake well, and constantly during spray.
Spray plants well, drenching, dripping at or near lights out. Get under the leaves. Do it for every other day for a week.
Now the bad news: You'll need to do it every third day till you harvest.
You can stop a week before harvest ... but, if you're going to save this harvest that's the only way.
Thrips are a bitch. I'd rather have mites.
No it doesn't.water spray is also effective on the live ones but useless in flower as it melts the trichomes.
Yea, but what I'm talking about is ... how many days will it take (including shipping time) for the ladybugs to become effective? Answer: Too long. You need to get some chemicals on those flowers RFN, then when you turn the ladybugs loose on them the pesticides will kill them.the ladybugs are a longer term shot. they have the advantage of being effective throughout flower.
I think that it is the isopropyl alcohol in the iso/water mix that @bluter recommends in msg #15. He is talking about a common rubbing alcohol mixed with water solution. The alcohol kills the bugs and the water is the carrier and also dilutes it down enough that the mix would probably not catch fire.Water does not 'melt' tricomes.
If it did we'd have no flowers if it rained.
Water rolls right off of those oily flowers.
OOoooooh.I think that it is the isopropyl alcohol in the iso/water mix that @bluter recommends in msg #15. He is talking about a common rubbing alcohol mixed with water solution. The alcohol kills the bugs and the water is the carrier and also dilutes it down enough that the mix would probably not catch fire.