How to Get Rid of THRIPS! | My Entire 2 MONTH Thrips Journey! | Using Beneficial Insects! | Vlog
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This is my entire 2 month Thrips journey and I take you through my process of what I did during that time and using beneficial insects for the first time. It was a very long journey but I hope this helps anyone that is struggling with them!
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00:00 Intro
02:47 First finding thrips
09:13 First round of beneficial mites
11:06 Next day
13:08 Beneficial Mites update
15:43 Second round of beneficials + nematodes
19:23 Second round update
22:39 Third round arrived
25:18 Final Update
29:32 Summarizing & my thoughts
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I hope you enjoy the video! It was a long process and I hope this helps anyone dealing with Thrips. If you have any questions let me know! :)
I'm so happy you spent the time to document and share with us your experiences- last week I found thrips larvae on several of my plants and I've been freaking out ever since! Treating by showering off affected plants and spraying with neem oil and soap mixture, pulling off SO many tradescantia leaves, and generally praying to the houseplant gods. It wasn't until watching your video that I knew what I was looking at though, because Google images died mostly dark colored insects! I immediately ordered the insecticide and will be stalking the mail. I JUST FOUND MORE ON MY TRIOSTAR 😭😭😭
I had a container of lillies and I started noticing white (kinda of looked like pollen) flecks dusted among the leaves. I kept wiping it off and it kept coming back. I then noticed the plants turning yellow. I really looked down in the plant and saw more of the white flecks and what I'm assuming was aphids (green with a red center). I threw them away and noticed the white flecks on some of the nearby plants. I think this is what was affecting the new leaves on my ruby elastica. The last 3 leaves have come out deformed. Thought it might be from overwatering (the soil was way wetter at the bottom than I previously thought). But after watching this I'm thinking it was thrips? I cut off those deformed leaves and wiped it down with alcohol/dish soap/water mix. Today I'm spraying it down with insecticidal soap. Did you notice thrips on the tops of leaves? Or where they mostly on the underside?
I wish you'd shown people how to go about this the right way. Here's some advice I hope everyone can see...
First off, sprays kill beneficial mites. So if you spray anything on your leaves, even organic sprays like Dr. Zymes or Captain Jacks, the first thing listed on the bottles IS MITES. It will harm your predatory mites and reduce their effectiveness.
Second, with slightly more research I'd imagine you would have come across the information that A. Cucumeris aren't well suited to more developed thrips. Swirskii Mites are far better suited for that purpose. And B. That you DO NOT want saches you want bottles of adults. You have an active thrips population, the sachets are for PREVENTATIVE, LONG TERM RELEASE. The bottles with adults inside are correctly suited to your problem, NOT the sachets.
Third, you bought a triple pack of nematodes where a minimum 2/3 of the ingredients inside are not effective for treating thrips. If you have an active outbreak of thrips, why use 3 products instead of just SF Nematodes which work specific for thrips!
Fourth, I don't know how we are still going with the opposite choices on products, but you DO NOT use mosquito "dunks" for fungus gnats in your setting. Those are slow release bti designed for ponds and small lakes, beds of standing water etc. You use Mosquito "BITS", not "dunks". Please don't make a video saying dunks aren't effective next, when using them outside their effective parameters.
While I'm glad to see people out there trying biological controls, please dont follow this video as it's the opposite of an ideal treatment plan. I don't mean to be harsh, but with so much time invested into your wonderful plants and setup, would have thought some more due diligence in IPM treatments would have been made.
TLDR Bottle of 4k ADULT Swirskii Mites for the adults, 5 million SF nematodes for the larvae, and yellow sticky traps for the mature adult fliers (to try and stop them from spreading to your other plants).
Lastly, diatomaceous earth will harm predatory mites as well as springtails and other highly beneficial insects. It's designed to be used on hard surfaces as a dust layer (which is why a duster is included in the bags) like when you wipe a picture frame, that level of DE is meant to be applied. It is as broad spectrum as it gets, and will harm far more than just the thrips end of the day.
If you want a reliable nuke option, after nothing else works, I'd go with Spinosad. It will certainly harm predatory mites, but is HIGHLY effective at thrips. There are lab studies out there showing this, and I'm not going off any anecdotal evidence when suggesting that.
I wish you the absolute best of luck and hope by now your pests have all gone away!
What did you clean your cabinet with?
If you find thrips on one plant, assume they are on all plants. By the time you can see them, they’ve been there for a while.
I love how thorough this video is!! Thank you!!! 💛💛
Thank you so much! I appreciate that!! 🥰
Ive been battling spider mites. For a month I did the pesticide route first. I’ve tried captain jacks, insecticidal soap, all the spider mites sprays on Amazon,Diatomaceous earth, neem oil. Spider mites are relentless. I got the beneficial mites after seeing you did. First time around I was HIGHLY disappointed thinking well maybe I did something wrong. Ordered them again… I can see them and I haven’t seen a spider mite yet thankfully BUT.. that’s how it goes you think there gone and boom there back with a vengeance. Being a plant mom is stressful lol
hoping they're gone for you!
Are they fully gone? I recently noticed thrips damage on my plants and immediately used the systematic granules and the captain Jack soap.. I am considering getting those beneficial mites.
Sometimes, I wonder if the effort and the time is worth it. But plants do bring a lot of joy.
Thank you so much for sharing this important message for treating thrips and pests 💚 I appreciate you 💚🙌🪴 thank you!!
Thank you! Appreciate that! 🥰
Hello Melissa from Puerto Rico!!! Wow, what a work out!!! Hope you got rid of them. I have a cleaning with Neem and Castile soap as soon as the new plants arrive. So far so good. 🙋🏼♀️🪴🌿💚🐩
I had thrips on my Thai constellation. It was extremely hard to get rid of it. I sprayed insecticide 3times. Looked like thrips were gone but always ended up coming back. I ended up chopping leaves and repotting. I had to use magnifying glass every time to make sure thrips were gone. Finally no more thrips and now using systemic insecticide. Now whenever I buy new plants I check with magnifying glass to inspect.
Sorry to hear that! I need to get one of those they're so tricky to spot sometimes!
I'm glad your insects are finally over, I always use "Garden Safe for organic gardening, insecticidal soap, insect killer" I buy it at Lowe's and it's very good. 👏👏👏💚💚💚🌿🌿🌿
I sprayed my entire Homalomena with rubbing alcohol that has thrips. Still in the midst of it, but so far it's working great!
GREAT JOB IN PUTTING THE TIME AND ENERGY INTO THIS VIDEO!!!!!😮😮😮 I literally would of been done with plants,CZcams ,showering lol😂
Thank you so much! It was a lot of editing lol I had so much footage I took 😵💫
I don't have as big a collection as you but I am terrified of thrips as you are, I truly thank you for this video as many of us are also bringing our babies in from a summer out.
You’re very welcome! I definitely didn’t realize how damaging they can be. It’s a pest I haven’t dealt with really before and I learned so much from everything 😊
This video is very beneficial to any plant owner. As a neophyte plantologist myself, I now know much more about plant pests than I did before and that is valuable knowledge. Certainly I will now be more proactive in looking for and recognizing signs of infestations and I can draw upon the information in this video to take intervention measures. I hope your thrips have vacated the premises never to return. Please continue your valued teachings. Thanks.
Thank you!! I really hope I don’t see anymore lol it will be another day of spraying if I do 🙈
@@plantsbymelissa if you do see more please don’t do what I saw in cartoons many years ago where Elmer Fudd tried to eliminate a housefly by shooting at it with a shotgun until he had destroyed his house in the process. As I recall he ended up with no house but the fly was still vexing him. Lol.
I kid you not, I watched this video, and was recalling the time months ago when I had thrips. I checked my plants the next day, and surprise surprise, THRIPS! 😭 I'm definitely taking your advice on this!
OH NO I'm so sorry! Best of luck to you and I feel your pain. I keep checking my plants every day hoping I don't find more 🥲
Thanks! I just found some today so came here for your advise!😫
Wow you handling this thrip situation quite well. I’m curious to know how beneficial the insects were ?
I know it's been a while since you've posted this video, but I've used the ones that you did, and ones for Koppert. I found the Koppert ones much more active. The first time I used them, the mites were crawling all over the glass shelf. They are more expensive, but I found them to also be more effective.
Thank you Melissa my babies are coming in for the cold season in upstate NY and fungus gnats seem to be the big problem. I am keeping my fingers crossed that is the only problem! Good luck with yours!!!
Thank you so much! So far so good but going to do another check this weekend. I used the mosquito dunks for the gnats and I’ve seen an improvement already. I’m going to do one more round of watering my plants with it then probably use them every few weeks.
I'm worried about them too...I've started slowly treating them fpr pests and watering them with mosquito nibs mixture.
The gnats in my house were out of control and a combo of mosquito bits and nematodes seems to have knocked them out almost completely 👍🏼👏🏼
Great video! Thank you for taking the time to do this! 💖I was considering ordering systemic to use as a preventative, but now having second thoughts? 😳 Please keep us updated on your experience with the beneficial mites.
Thank you! I’ll be ordering some probably in a couple weeks. I sprayed my collection down so want to give it some time before I release more. I’m going to order directly from them and not Amazon to see if I have a better experience with them! ☺️
I would have just cried. Congratulations. Could you please do a video on mealies?
Admittedly, I'm only 1/2 way through the video, so don't know everything you tried, how it eventually turned out, or what you'd do different....but I absolutely admire your attempts to control things holistically. Personally, I wouldn't have cut anything but absolutely dead leaves, and would have doused everything else in Neem oil and mosquito bits. Who knows if that would have been more effective, but if something comes after the prized plants....it's getting NUKED. Thank you for posting this. I'm off to watch the second half!!! :)
Thank you! It was really my first battle with them and I never used beneficials before and really wanted to learn on my own and see how it went. I learned a lot through this process so I’m happy it happened in a way. I learn the best through my own trial and error :)
Feel your pain. Dealing with the same in my small apartment. Think ground zero was a tiny fittonia I got from home depot and kept moving (after I quaratined two weeks) all iver my shelves. Of course, they infected so many. Can’t believe a tiny 6.00 plant has destroyed my collection. In canada we don’t have access to really effective product but the battle continues week 2. Thanks for your honest recall and tips.
The only thing that helps me to get rid of the thrips is to treat both foliage and soil once a week for a few months. Thrips live not only the plant leaves but on stems and soil. The most affective is to get combo insecticides that include some kind of treatment for soil and a spray (or neem) for foliage and stems.
helpful stuff, i've learned a lot
Thank you!! Glad I could help!! 🥰
I’d recommend initially using “Pirate Bugs” along with the sachets you used. The cucumeris only eat the eggs. Pirate bugs eat all the stages of thrips.
Thank you! I’ll definitely get those! 🙏🏼
I looked these up don't they bite? I am planning on releasing them inside my house and don't want to end up being eaten alive. 😊
I just lost 3 Philodendron Mamei. It was a terrible day today. Now you have given me new motivation and I will fight the monster.👹
I broke down and used systemic granules along with captain jacks. I couldn't do all that work....its too much and I am too busy. it killed me to use it though cuz its poison in my house but u gotta do what u gotta do! it works tho, so well with minimal effort!! no pets or kids sooo it should be 👌 2months and not a bug spotted so far...dead bug kills spider mites too so I am not worried about them (I havent spotted any).
Can only speak from my experience, I have used beneficial mites many times from natures good guys. I order Neoseiulus (Amblyseius) californicus. This works sooo well to control spider mites. A few months later they are still present in the soil & on the plant so I know there is still food to eat for them. I haven't seen any webbing at all since getting them. After enough time has passed I generally will order 10 more sachets for preventative. To treat thrips and fungus gnats, I use systemic granules a few times a year. I found the process of using captain jacks deadbug to be very time consuming and also a pain to take the plants to the tub to spray them down. I also tried nematodes from Amazon, the kind you mix with a gallon of water but no matter what I always still had fungus gnats.
Thanks for sharing! I'm definitely going to order directly from them and probably some different kinds. Yes, I hate spraying the down, would much rather release bugs! It's so much work :(
I am scared to bring my monsteras inside....the thrip love them...oh this was a great video....I have been using Arber bio insecticide to spray my plants and to pour into the soil as well for the roots to drink....and than the 100% neem oil and soap spray to protect afterwards is working best.....if I don't put the neem spray on I feel the pests show up faster....please continue to update us after all the collection was sprayed down....wow...what a work out...I know I go room per room treating the whole room at a time...I really hope this has helped and the preventative mites sound like a good investment!...I do recomment the arber too since you can't pour in soil too when watering! See you soon and thanks for the vlog...I hate thrip so much!
Thank you so much! I’ll definitely do an update if I see anything else. I’m going to order more beneficials once another week or 2 passes. I want to give the spray I used some time ☺️
I noticed you mentioned that you think it came from the moss? I’ve heard you can boil it before using it, do you recommend this now?
I found thrips on my BOP today. Just a few and they aren’t moving. I did spray diluted hydrogen peroxide on the leaves over the last few days because I saw some spots but I didn’t see any bugs so I was just spraying and cleaning.
I am not going to mess with insects or soap and neem because I don’t have a dedicated room. I have 2 BOP that I divided and they are in separate rooms with multiple plants. Both have thrips and I’m going to go to my folks house tomorrow and get a systemic treatment. (Dad is old school, no big is safe at his house and I’m following his lead on this. Lol)
Can you actually see the white thrip with your eyes? Can you see them flying ever? Very good video. I’m now looking for spider mite info. Tfs
Good luck. I get attacked by thrips indoors and out every summer. Something about the area I currently live, the thrips are tenacious. It took me a few seasons with heavy losses to figure out a good pest system.
It slows down in the winter, but I have to do weekly preventative maintenance in the growing season.
On a side note, strangely they mostly focus on my philodendron. I rarely find them on any other genus in my collection.
They spared me last year thank GOODNESS. I've been really trying to up beneficials in the spring - they get on some of my outdoor plants so I start to get paranoid if I see them out there. I think routine use of nematodes has helped me a lot too!
Sorry that you spent the majority of your summer treating thrips.
I grow my entire collection in semi-hydro because I love to rinse each plant each week during flush day. I'm terrified of any bugs.... Even the thought of beneficials chilling on my plants freaks me out!!
I've yet to have a pest problem, except for fungus gnats when I once used soil.
Not sure if you included this in your daily treatment routine, but maybe tie up your beautiful long (only when treating in your plant room) and vaccum your carpet daily too? I was thinking maybe they used you as transport when they fell off your plants onto you and onto your carpet, and vice versa...
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Thank you so much! 🥹🙏🏼 I have 3 cats and they stay outside in our patio area all day and I’m sure they bring pests in too. I try my best to clean and stay proactive at checking 😊
I'm gonna order the sachets.. Should I rinse my plays? I was using insecticides to battle my thrip infestation.. Thanks in advance
omg looking at that shot of the larvae, makes me think i saw some larvae on my cuprea plantlet!! i havent seen damage or larvae since but now im scared
After 38 years selling houseplants commercialy, my suggestions are as follows.
Spider mites: Wash off and a chemical attack. Repeat again and again.
Thrips: Wash off, spray with soap or alcohol. Treat soil with systemic insecticide. I suggest systemics used prophylacticly on susceptible plants.
As for preditory mites: You will never rid your plants of pests. After most of the bad bugs die, the preditors leave or die themselves. Then the pests come back. The best you can hope for is a balance of both good and bad mites. That's the theory, but in nearly four decades, I have never seen a customer with that theoretical balance. It's a nice ecological choice, and the thought is attractive to environmentalists. But success is fleeting at best.
Do you have any advice for plants in leca or pon? Is there a systemic solution for semi-hydro?
Thanks for this great, informative video! My question is this: have you lost any plants during the process? When I had thrips on my plants, all my affected calatheas subsequently died off.
I actually didn’t! I had a couple calatheas get attacked and they got angry but they’re growing back 🥹
Such a nice video ❤ You used a big spray and then released the beneficials, is the spray killing them? I am thinking what to do with my current infestation 😬
wait 2-3 weeks if you're using any kind of pesticide. it can kill them yes :)
Hey! I don't know if I missed it in the video, but when you treat your plants on a moss pole, do you saturate the poles with capt. Jacks? I've been getting spider mites and am planning to douse everything with azamax, just wondering how to go about spraying the moss poles!
I have the same question. I can see Melissa liked your comment yet that's kinda weird without any answer to it.
I am a little bit lazy 😂
When I buy a new plant, I remove the soil then, I hose it down in lurk warm water, then I spray it down with Canna cure and last, I convert it into Lechuza Pon.
I water it with filtered water and add 3 drops of Superthrive in the water.
I never had pest or bacteria outbreak.
Nock on wood.
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Hope you don’t have any more,it can make you crazy when it goes for so long,good luck Melisa👍
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Thank you!! Yes lol I was so over it 🫠
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Thank you for sharing this journey... thrips are my major fear but I feel like you have prepared me for it watching this video and throughout your instagram while you shared too. Question, while using beneficial mites... you cannot use things like neem oil, right? Pretty much nothing but watering. No cleaning leaves etc?
I'm not sure if neem is harmful to them but I didn't use anything for 2 months not even water unless it accidentally got on them. It was a rough 2 months but I haven't seen anymore!
So if I get the mites, can I also use the DE and the Captain Jacks at the same time? Or will that kill them?
I honestly believe my Florida beauty started it all im like a mad plant woman with a bottle of neem oil at the moment and Im scared all my plants are done for I went on vacation came back to tiny black bugs on my plants I thought was just dirt until I really checked and was horrified. im more of a spider mite girly lol my plants always get them and now I have to deal with thrips and im scared
I bought captain jacks from Amazon & I noticed it didn’t have an odor & looked like water. There were comments on the site similar to mine, so I went to Lowes & bought it & the same, no odor & a water consistency. Am I going crazy or is this normal? I have thrips & I would hate to go through all this & it doesn’t work.
Hey love , but captain jacks concentrated - one cap in a gallon of water and water through everything , I add azamax also but you don’t have too and water through every watering for 8 weeks you will continually kill anything in the soil.
I bought the concentrate off Amazon. I have azamax too but only use it for a spider mite outbreak. I don’t like using them as a preventive so pests don’t build up a tolerance 😊
Have you seen Knot Dudes video on the hoya mites? Very very interesting! He talks of “Sulfar ” for pest issues. He has these mites that attack hoyas and nothing worked except Sulfar. From what I gathered it’s a great pest prevention. I bought some but have yet to use it. You should check it out I believe it works for thrips too.
I haven’t seen this! That’s scary! I’ll have to check it out thank you! 🥰
@@plantsbymelissa yes definitely check it out…..there were a couple videos about it. Another man said treat your plants like 2xs per year and you’ll never have a pest….it’s worth researching
I know this video is a bit old, but I’m currently battling thrips and losing my mind! I was wondering if you’ve ever tried using diatomaceous earth mixed with water to spray down your plants? I’ve not come across to many videos from others discussing this method, so I’m wondering if there are negative implications associated with using DE on indoor plants.
Try using sulfur mixed in water and apply to the plants. It helps with thrips takes a few days . Handles mites, and powdery mildew and other fungi .
...So did you get rid the thrips eventually?
Also I don’t know if it’s bad or whatever but everyone I buy a plant I spray it down with alcohol & dish soap leave it on a few mins and spray it off that seems to be working and I have about 150-200 plants in my collection
I spray new plants with my soapy mixture just in case and I try to keep them in a different area until I know they don’t have pests because you never know 😬
Same...I do alcohol (desiccates insects...like salt on a slug), followed by a diluted Dawn dish soap solution (drowns them/keeps them from flying/hopping), followed by Neem oil (suffocates small insects/toxic for them, but not us).
All my plants are in a small space so I have to treat them all at once in the same spot 😅
Melissa, please, update: How did it go in the end? Now 6 months later, have you get rid of thrips on those plants?
I feel so sorry for you. Thrips are the worst. I´m still battling them many months since it started 😞
Yes, got rid of them in 2 months :)
Thank You Again For This Good Information Melissa 👌🏼🪴🕷🪰🧐 Good Job On This Content. I Really Enjoyed This, I Get Thrips On My Banana Plant & I Know Exactly What Your Talking About.. Yikes! Lol, Haha Those Thrips Were Having A Bachelorette Party On Your Your Orbifolia Plant😂🤣 That Was Crazy.
😂😂😂 they sure was! It’s like they magically appeared too because it was done a few days prior 🙈 thank you!! 🥰
Keep using the benfitials throughout your plant life. It will keep them at bay and they’re just good to have around. I feel like the “houseplant community” also has a lot of lackluster and incorrect or confusing info regarding plant care and pests etc in general. I’m from the cannabis community and because the plant is worth actual money people are very serious about it. I would have told you to isolate that cabinet immediately and not touch anything without showering before touching other plants. You also have carpet which I’d worry about too. Cutting all the leaves off seems overkill too as you can just smash and remove the adults and larva with your fingers. Also there are many spray routes to go. Like taking that whole cabinet of plants to the bathtub and spraying them all with dr bronner peppermint soap. As well as spraying with Beauveria Bassiana (bio insecticide) and alternating etc. also neem oil (emulsified). You can get a mini fogger from Petra tools as well for excellent control and coverage. After those options you can try spinosad, and others. Thrips are soft body pests so the higher the humidity the softer their bodies get and the easier it is for the Beauveria Bassiana to penetrate the body and kill them. You also have to treat the soil as much as the leaves because they breed in the soil. So you’re likely losing that soil battle. The nematodes were the good move for that and you need to keep the soil moist for two weeks for the nematodes to wiggle around and do their thing ha. I’m battling a very small infestation in my 4x4 tent. So far pretty successful and damage is minimal. I ordered Rove beetles for the soil and nematodes. And I’m spraying organic pesticides on the plants. I had some thrips appear in my 2x2 tent and I simply shut it (no exhausted air, no fans, nothing. Humidity was 100%. I fogged them with Beauveria Bassiana. And they were all gone and dead in a week. The high humidity doesn’t allow the thrips to breed (90-100%) or very dry (0-20% I think it was)). The 2x2 also got the rove beetles and nematodes in the soil. Hopefully some good info in here for you in the future. Invest in the mini fogger. You can use it to foliar as well. I foliar fresh blended aloe and Humic/fulvic acid etc as well. PH to 5.8 for foliar feeding. Hope the pests are gone and good luck!!!
Shit I meant nothing by the houseplant community comment. Simply mentioned it real quick because my friend just got some house plants and immediately got spider mites. The things he was asking me about plant care etc was all stuff he saw online or IG and most of it was half truths or just not correct or the wrong way of going about things. Websites like home and garden and sf gate or other crap sites like that ha. Not saying anything you said was bad sorry lol. I think you did a great job documenting and adjusting to what was happening.
Also about the nematodes. When you mix them into water you have to be gentle with the stirring and also have to stir each time you go to pour them because they settle to the bottle. So if you mix them in then walk out of the room and come back and water, most of those first plants you water are getting minimal to no nematodes as they likely settled to the bottom of the watering can. There are LOTS of little tricks and info like that that aren’t around easily unless you dig. Can’t remember if that was in the instructions or I saw it randomly on a video.
I have no money to afford a Cabinet or those big expensive Plants and now somehow I don't feel so bad anymore. I do feel very bad for you though. 😔
Pests can come at any time or any place really! Part of owning plants but it’s worth it to have them :)
Where did you get your beneficial mites from? I looked on Amazon and couldn’t find them.
Natures good guys 😊
How can you tell the difference between the beneficial mites and the thrips?
Thrips look so different to me after seeing them on person. It’s hard to explain in words! Mites are more round I guess. It’s easier to spot them once you had them and know what to expect.
Why not use substral celaflor sticks? They kill thrips and other pests quickly
Hi, I honestly have no idea what those are! Never heard of them :)
Seriously, Google it. You just stick them into the soil and just wait. The plant will suck up the poison and kill all pests that eats on the plant. I use these all the time on my 200+ plants at home
It's impossible to see nematodes with naked eyes. You need a microscope:)
I buy them every now and there (6millions for 60 plants) and they work perfectly every time. 2 applications and the fungus gnats are gone
After realizing that for my collection, I needed to order 150$ worth of beneficial insects every two weeks, I gave up and started using chemicals 🙄
Yup. Preditory mites are both unefective and expensive.
I’d be curious to see if you notice a difference between ordering them via Amazon, and directly from Nature’s Good Guys. 🤔 I’ve only ordered them directly from NGG and never been disappointed! Plus you get a discount if you set up a recurring order. I have it set up for every 2 months for 25 of those sachets, and a bottle of their pirate mites🏴☠️Plus their customer service is awesome! I’ve called a couple of times for help and they’re always super helpful. ✨
Good to know! Thank you! I heard from some followers that it might be better to order from them directly so gonna do that for next time here soonish lol. I’m happy to hear you’ve had a great experience! I’m excited to get more again lol it was fun watching them crawl around 😂
I feel like if I were to have this bad of an infestation, my last resort would be releasing so many ladybugs 😩 i could not handle that kind of stress
I really wanted to do lady bugs but they’re toxic if my cats eat them :(
I am frustrated because I can see the damage but can’t find where they are ? I’ve searched high and low. I rather find them and know where they are :( I don’t understand how there could be damage , obv I missing something but yikes I’ve even pulled out my magnifying glass :( so I treated my whole cabinet - cap jacks systemic and beneficial bugs …. It’s so devastating :(
I’m sorry! They’re so tiny and I think I missed them for awhile before I realized they were in my cabinet. I just happen to notice them on a new leaf and I instantly new I was in trouble lol
My go to is to look if they're in the bottom of your decorative pot
They can be very hard to spot, I usually gently blow on the leaf if I'm not sure to make them move.
@@veronikajanikova7960 1000% recommend this!! I have seen some larvae moving under my pots when I pick them up to clean them. I always thought it was like gnats larvae or something, never thought it could be thrips and now I’m suffering the consequences…
Always thought spidermites are awful..... thrips are much worse
Omg and Alocasia are the worst with thrips
Watching this video made me itch like I have lice 🤣
😂😂😂
Same here!!
Remove the carpet in the room
You can save yourself a lot of headache if you worry more about how pests get on your plants in the first place. Pests don't grow on plants, they are placed there from outside sources, coming into your home from either yourself, your cat/dog, or from items you bring home. Once they are on a plant, they can spread easily when your plants are very close to each other, or when you keep touching the leaves of each plant with your hands, meaning you spread pests from one plant to another. Preventing pests is effectively the same as a virus; wash your hands, keep distance between your plants, and isolate new plants until you're sure they don't have any pests on them.
I know that but they’re still going to show up no matter how proactive you are :)
@@plantsbymelissa That's not my experience, and I haven't had any pests in over 4 years now.
When you discover that two of your other plants has thrips as well, your immediate reaction should be to figure out how they got there. Adult thrips can only fly short distances, so thrips spread primarily from a carrier or when plants are too close to each other. But pests can also hide in a greenhouse cabinet, in cracks or simply behind a handle. So cleaning the location of your infected plant is just as important. Just something to think about, I'm sure you'll got the thrips under control.
You can be really thorough and still bring in a single thrip from your clothes or something and not know. Thrips reproduce asexually so it’s easy to have a problem. Most people do a lot of pest prevention but sometimes it’s just inevitable. It doesn’t mean people are doing anything wrong. It’s just how nature works. Your advice isn’t really helpful and really comes across more as kicking people when they’re down.
@@ThisIsMyFullName none of this matters. Thrips come in through my screen windows every summer (I know this because you can see them jump from plant to plant outside, then I always find them on the plants closest to the windows.)
I can’t live life with closed windows, so I have to medicate preventively every season. It’s just part of my routine now.
Maybe pests are regional (because I never dealt with thrips till I moved to my current home).
Bugs are bugs. They will always come into your home.
I would think all it takes is an open window with a breeze and BAM a total infestation begins.
So random, but you sound like Dakota Johnson
Hello please try to make shorter videos like 10 minutes long
Try using sulfur.