Thrips. Act fast. Try using several methods all at once. Jack’s dead bug brew and beneficial mites together works great.
Persistence is the key. Spray throughout every nooks and crannies on schedule. I sprayed once every week for 2 months.
Chuck_H_Norris
business thrips
ES_Legman
Go nuclear with Bonide and get a spray like Contendor for the adults
hellomiaou
Also, QUARANTINE!
BatInside2603
Oh no. Those are thrips. Isolate NOW and get rid of them ASAP. Give it a good shower, dry it and pick off the extra bugs. Spray the whole dang thing, both sides, with insecticidal soap, and then do it again in five days.
Thx4AllTheFish
Systemic pesticides are great for thrips, and they won’t hurt your plants. You can get them at any big box or hardware store. Just don’t eat your monstera like a salad.
Edit* [Arbico Organics](https://www.arbico-organics.com/category/thrips-control) is a great resource if you dont want to go the systemic route. They have all of the biological controls and OMRI certified pesticides as well. Thrips are tricky because of their life cycle, but if you time it right, you can get rid of them. I am an operations manager for a small-scale cannabis grow in Colorado, and I have gotten rid of a major thrips infestation (from the previous ops manager) completely while using only OMRI listed pesticides. Systemic pesticides are illegal in cannabis in Colorado.
Urania8
….and every other plant too. Better to expend the energy upfront than live in perpetual hell of pest treatments. If it’s one plant, it’s probably all.
melancholypowerhour
Consistency and persistence is the key to knocking out thrips. I’m currently dealing with my own decent attack, I treat the entire collection every week for 2 months. Always treat a week longer than you think you need.
Suspicious_Tap_9601
Ouch 😣 that’s a difficult fix . It can be done , but on this particular plant it is not an easy task. I would concede defeat on this plant
Marie_plantdoglover
It’ll be OK. Depot, hose it down, throw in the soil, hose it down for a while and rootsum!
psiprez
Unless I paid a lot for the plant, I admit I would make it disappear.
Hunnnnerr
I had thrips earlier this year and had to treat my entire collection. I sprayed everything down with water first to try and mechanically remove any thrips. After the plants were dry, I sprayed spinosad (Captain Jack’s Dead Bug), followed by pyrethrin. Spinosad and pyrethrin can be combined into one sprayed for convenience, I just had them separate. I repeated the process after about 4 days, so that way, any possible eggs hatched and could be treated again. It’s been several months, and I haven’t noticed anything since, but out of precaution, I do take a magnifying glass to a couple of plants at least once a week.
I’m a tree hugging 7 year vegan liberal gardener who loves plants and always prefers the natural route.
Turns out there’s nothing natural about keeping plants in a sterile closed in environment without a predator for the bugs. After all that natural junk didn’t work this stuff saved my plants in 3 days. Obliterated all signs of bugs with no harm to the plants.
Only thing I will say is it makes me sneeze uncontrollably so I tend to store the plants far away while it’s working. If you use it you I guarantee you your plants will come out clean and spring back to life like never before.
jeffserio4388
First take a sponge and a bucket of soapy water mixed with a little neem oil if you have it or any other oil. Sponge every part of the plant. Then use whatever pesticide you want. Dusting diatomaceous earth will work but make the plant dusty. The best way to get rid of them is to just continuously clean the leaves with that soap, water and oil solution and get a humidifier
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Thrips. Act fast. Try using several methods all at once. Jack’s dead bug brew and beneficial mites together works great.
Persistence is the key. Spray throughout every nooks and crannies on schedule. I sprayed once every week for 2 months.
business thrips
Go nuclear with Bonide and get a spray like Contendor for the adults
Also, QUARANTINE!
Oh no. Those are thrips. Isolate NOW and get rid of them ASAP. Give it a good shower, dry it and pick off the extra bugs. Spray the whole dang thing, both sides, with insecticidal soap, and then do it again in five days.
Systemic pesticides are great for thrips, and they won’t hurt your plants. You can get them at any big box or hardware store. Just don’t eat your monstera like a salad.
Edit* [Arbico Organics](https://www.arbico-organics.com/category/thrips-control) is a great resource if you dont want to go the systemic route. They have all of the biological controls and OMRI certified pesticides as well. Thrips are tricky because of their life cycle, but if you time it right, you can get rid of them. I am an operations manager for a small-scale cannabis grow in Colorado, and I have gotten rid of a major thrips infestation (from the previous ops manager) completely while using only OMRI listed pesticides. Systemic pesticides are illegal in cannabis in Colorado.
….and every other plant too. Better to expend the energy upfront than live in perpetual hell of pest treatments. If it’s one plant, it’s probably all.
Consistency and persistence is the key to knocking out thrips. I’m currently dealing with my own decent attack, I treat the entire collection every week for 2 months. Always treat a week longer than you think you need.
Ouch 😣 that’s a difficult fix . It can be done , but on this particular plant it is not an easy task. I would concede defeat on this plant
It’ll be OK. Depot, hose it down, throw in the soil, hose it down for a while and rootsum!
Unless I paid a lot for the plant, I admit I would make it disappear.
I had thrips earlier this year and had to treat my entire collection. I sprayed everything down with water first to try and mechanically remove any thrips. After the plants were dry, I sprayed spinosad (Captain Jack’s Dead Bug), followed by pyrethrin. Spinosad and pyrethrin can be combined into one sprayed for convenience, I just had them separate. I repeated the process after about 4 days, so that way, any possible eggs hatched and could be treated again. It’s been several months, and I haven’t noticed anything since, but out of precaution, I do take a magnifying glass to a couple of plants at least once a week.
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I’m a tree hugging 7 year vegan liberal gardener who loves plants and always prefers the natural route.
Turns out there’s nothing natural about keeping plants in a sterile closed in environment without a predator for the bugs. After all that natural junk didn’t work this stuff saved my plants in 3 days. Obliterated all signs of bugs with no harm to the plants.
Only thing I will say is it makes me sneeze uncontrollably so I tend to store the plants far away while it’s working. If you use it you I guarantee you your plants will come out clean and spring back to life like never before.
First take a sponge and a bucket of soapy water mixed with a little neem oil if you have it or any other oil. Sponge every part of the plant. Then use whatever pesticide you want. Dusting diatomaceous earth will work but make the plant dusty. The best way to get rid of them is to just continuously clean the leaves with that soap, water and oil solution and get a humidifier