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Conquering Thrips Part 2: The Supervillain in Your Hydroponic Garden · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hi, welcome back to Hydroponics Daily. Today we're going to talk about how to
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  control the supervillain of hydroponics in, that is, thrips.
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  Again, like spider mounts, it thrives in high temperatures, so you want to maintain
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  as low a temperature in your grainy room as possible for your crop to control
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  them if you've got an infestation.
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  If you haven't got an infestation, always make sure you've got a filter on your inlet fan.
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  This will help protect you against and any thrips that are flying by your inlet
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  quarantine any cuttings that are coming into your.
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  Aquarium this is very important especially in the uk in hydroponics
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  lots of people get thrips from cuttings or clones as they call them or cuts
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  that's because the pupa are in the soil and the eggs are in the leaves and so
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  someone suddenly in the cutting can say look this is disease free there's this
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  is pests free there's no there's no pests on it look i've got no pests.
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  And then they can emerge well when
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  they when you transfer them to the grow room and they and so
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  that's a big problem so you can spray
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  insecticides so with spider mints you couldn't spray insecticides you
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  had to spray what we call miticides these are different chemicals
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  so the same chemicals that control spider mints won't control
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  thrips and you can get systemic insecticides which
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  travel around the plant or you can get contact most of them are
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  now contact that are designed for home and garden use and they're
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  organic alternatives and we recommend a product called
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  hydro thrips and it's got a nice lemony
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  smell and that's really good at controlling thrips very popular product as i
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  say repeat sprays because those eggs are emerging from the leaves so spray once
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  spray again seven days later four to seven days later and spray the ground spray
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  the soil surface, spray the pots,
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  spray the saucers, spray anything in the grow room because that's where the pupa are landing.
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  And if you don't control the pupa, you don't break that life cycle,
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  then you will not control thrips.
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  You need to control the eggs, the adults, the nymphs and the pupa.
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  You can add biocontrol, so you can add beneficial mites that will eat the thrips.
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  There's lots of insects you can bide that will eat thrips with varying degrees of success.
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  And certain ones will only eat thrips on flowers and fruits.
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  Some will only eat thrips on leaf tissue, some like high humidity, some like low humidity.
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  Some will eat thrips, aphids and other pests. Others are specific to thrips.
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  So do your research. What do you need? What's your growing environment?
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  And what conditions would suit the particular biocontrol agent.
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  And then for thrips, there are also forecasts. So for things like onion thrips,
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  you can actually get yourself aware of where the field-grown crops of onions,
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  where they get their information when there's going to be a thrip outbreak.
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  So in certain times of the year, they monitor the thrip numbers,
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  the populations among certain crops.
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  And you know that's in your area then you
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  could potentially get forewarned about an
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  outbreak of severe onion thrip or tobacco thrip
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  depending on where in the world you are certain regions certain
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  thrips will not be monitored though so that's might only
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  be for certain people in certain regions but that's thrips that's how you control
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  them good luck if you got thrips i've never had thrips but i wouldn't wish it
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  on my well i would wish it on my worst night worst enemy but yeah i wouldn't
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  wish it on a friend or myself okay that's been hydroponics daily for today thank you very much.