For thripes spray with your mixture, I use pyrithium and spray the underside of the leafs then hose off with water the next day. The eggs are in the soil so I use nematoads within a couple days, use a 1/4 of the spunge mixed with your water, then repeat with another 1/4 in about a week to ten days later. I have had them twice now and this has got rid of them completley both times. Found out the thripes were in the potting soil I was useing. So I buy my soil now in the bag sterelized from a local grow shop. Hope this helps