AWickedWizard
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Air cooled come on man what is this 2002?Dump that 20 dollar hood. You really need an air cooled hood. Your enviro will be way more stable if you control the temp spikes using air cooled hood.
I use my Daughters hair dryer if I get thrip or mats i just turn it on med and dry out the suckers the nets wings dry fast thrip don’t like it either you can yes a blue stick trap for thrip like the yellow one it a good way to monitor.Thrips are easy. Their life cycle is the key.
Flyers lay egg on the leaf bottoms. The larvae hatch and chow down.
Then they drop to the soil, burrow in, and the real damage begins just like Fungus gnats and Root aphids.
The thrip larvae go through 7 instars underground, eating root tips all the while.
Then they hatch pregnant flyer that lay eggs on your other plants.
The fix for all three is surprisingly easy.
Costco unscented dryer sheets laid on the soil surface will catch Thrip wigglers and hold them until the dry up.
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But wait, there's more.
You said you saw what looked like a couple fungus gnats. That means there are thousands of larvae noshing on roots. (They don't release flyers until it gets crowded underground.)
Dryer sheets actually repel them. I have seen them head for the harem, and pull a hard U-turn.
The surfactant waxes that soften our clothes is what sends them packing. It also repels other "scent hunters" Like cockroaches and yellow jackets.
The surfactant waxes do wear off, so change the sheets every 30 days.
Even if you forget they still make an excellent barrier for thrip larvae and others flyers that lay eggs directly in the soil.
Ready for some mo' betta news?
The scent does not affect, or remain, with the plant.
I throw one under the kitchen sink every month and no longer pay an exterminator to "control" German cockroaches.
Don't just take my word for it.
Try it, they are dirt cheap.
You will be very pleased.
The bad news. They do not repel whitefly. :(
So no discard your sticky traps.
Aloha,
Weeze
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