Thrips? Mites?

[stinkyattic]

Slick's in coco, auto drip, homebox 4x8 (hydrohut deLuxe), AK47, 3x600digi...
Lol it's sad I can rattle off what other members are running.
Longtime thrip sufferer and sashimi aficionado.

[rhizome]

Well, obviously pyre-bomb the box between cycles. I've had good results w/ abamectin drenches, but you want to flush pretty hard, pretty quickly. No idea how abamectin will interact w/ coco, but I don't see any obv. issues, long as you rinse it out 15 minutes later. Drench by hand, not thru irrigation system- looking for momentary oversaturation. Divert run-off from drench and rinses away from res, if he recircs. Aerate run-off for 24 hours to oxidize before disposal. Pyrethrin drench should work as well, but I've seen weird phytotoxicity .

Bag up and throw away used media after harvest, unless you want to heat-sterilize till bone dry.

Mom's are probabley affected too- regular spray program alternating neem/safer/pyrethrin every 3-5 days for like a month ( beware of waxy build-up) or abamectin/ safer tank mix weekly for 4 weeks, physical barriers over media to prevent larval burrowing. Remove tissue if any sign of larval feeding.

The bitch is that only the adult can be contact sprayed- to get the leaf and flower eating larva, you have to use a translaminar, and whatever your poison of choice for the subterraenean stages may be, you have to deliver it in in-vitro.

Slick- ever tried beneficial nematodes delivered thru your irrigation system? Can be quite effective, and they're the easiest bio-control to manage.

[ohkelly]

Hmm, Orthene (acephate) is one of the most widely used pesticides for tobacco. That would take care of the larval stages. Just sprinkle a little (maybe 1/2 tsp per plant or less) on the soil. Water it in and it'll go in through the roots. You can buy it wherever you find ant poison, which is what it's most commonly sold as in Megalomart-type stores. I don't know if it has any phytotoxicity in weed -- I've only ever seen it damage a fern. There may be an interval required between application and harvest. Hmm, yes there is -- three to five days pre-harvest in tobacco. You could give it a week or more if you're the cautious sort. And I guess that if you water it into the soil, instead of using a foliar spray, it could perist even longer, which could be not good. Oh, and don't touch it. It is toxic to you until it breaks down. And you might want to not touch the plants for a while. Sounds like risky stuff, no?

Hmm, again. "Orthene (acephate) Do not apply this product through any type of irrigation system." Wonder why? Bad juju? Corrosive?

Idunno. Perhaps more experienced voices will warn you that acephate is pure death to you, your irrigation setup and your pretty green weed babies. Probably you should disregard everything I've written unless the head grow heads here tell you differently.

[Weedhound]

Growheads....I like that. I also like the way rhizome says something.....then you have Stinky to say it in English.

[KickYoAss]

Do ya think Lowe's would have Safer's insecticidal soap? I've ordered so much crap on the internet, and was hoping I could just go grab this stuff locally. I'm really depressed that I was hit with thrips so bad. I was somewhat accurate when I said 50 - 100, but now it's much worse. There were just a lot of unhatched SOBs. Today, I killed all stages of the thrip on one set of leaves. Just ONE leaf homed at least 8 of them bastards. So, I've got 500 leaves that size.....ugh. I can't wait for that fungus to arrive. I have Vortex, and Spacequeen seeds for gosh sakes! I'm so excited to plant them, but I don't want them to have to live with any stress.
Because I want them bad so gone, I sprayed a few oz of that garlic barrier crap. I smell like garlic, the room smells HEAVILY of garlic, almost nauseating. I drenched the leaves tonight, hoping I make a difference.

[fatsackville]

you should treat part of the mulberry tree too, otherwise they might just move over to it and come back to your plants later