ALL ABOUT THRIPS & PLAN OF ATTACK-ORCHID RESCUE
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- This video talks all about THRIPS and shows you examples of how these insects can destroy and harm your entire orchid collection...but with proper action we can rescue our orchids.
This script in the beginning sounded like orchid news line. It was hilarious the way you spoke...😂 thanks for the info
Thank you for a 2nd part and showing us how you are handling these horrid little creatures. Have a great week, Maria!
Thank you for watching...the mission continues!
Ughhhhh! Girl, I just found thrips on my gorgeous Vanda. She started dropping her beautiful blooms and I noticed those nasty little buggers crawling on one of the fallen blooms! I’m filling up my tub with water now, and submerging my poor Vanda. Thanks for posting this, you’re awesome.
Thank you I didn’t know about this problem but I have the evidence that my orchids have been victim of this critter. Appreciate the tips I will get on it ASAP so all will be “ goody, goody in the orchid neighborhoody” with me too!! 😘
Good luck Maria...looks like the worse pest out of all the pests...And to think i once wanted to have my orchids all outside year round..Oh NO NO Not anymore Boo....No Lizards or Frogs hiding in my pots or hanging out on the leaves...Oh NO...i won't even mention the SNAK* word....and now Thrips....UGH!..just kidding..i will bring them all out every Spring and enjoy them outside until the fall...LOL...hopefullly without Thrips...can't imagine dunking every single one...well i do do that in the Summer to fertilize them...so much easier...But i wish you luck...you've had such a terrible year with tragedy after tragedy and you keep right on doing what you do with a smile on your face...You should be commended. Happy Growing!
Thank you and yes they are horrid little creatures from HELL! I have been consistent with spraying with Listerine and it appears to be working thus far! Wheeeeeew. I am hoping you never encounter them. They are a Nightmare on Orchid Street!!!! LOL!
Well if the thrips don't die at least they'll have good breath lol.
HA HA HA!!! ;)
Great tips👍🦋
Thanks for watching! :)
Dear, you are not alone. One of my larger cattleya recently bloom a bit deformed and lots of discoloration through out the pedals. One bloom was not too bad so I photographed it. A week later as I was checking out the photo and zoomed in...... What The H__!! is that on my blooms? Yep!!! Is them little Devils. It could be an infestation going on around here. I will start baptizing right away. Please update and let me know how it worked out for you.
OH NO!!! I am so sorry to hear...the Listerine in my garden seemed to have worked well...although I can't be certain if it was the listerine or the colder weather...but needless to say...they are gone and I am happy!!! Hoping you will get rid of those nasty plant sucking monsters!!!
Hi Maria. I am so sad to see your beautiful Vanda blooms infested and withered prematurely! I experienced a thrips attack last year on my Phalaenopsis collection. I was so upset because I waited for a whole year to get the blooms and soon after they bloomed or spiked, the flowers and the tips of the spikes were chewed by these little bastards. Fortunately they did not kill my phals. My phals are spiking again at this time of year. So far, I don't see any thrips. I hope you will get rid of them ASAP.
Thank you...and aren't they so horrible!!!! I can't stand them!!! I'm glad to hear that yours recovered well from them are spiking again! WHEW!!! THANK GOODNESS! ...and yes I am hoping that I will destroy their entire generation!!! THEY WILL LEARN TO NEVER MESS WITH ME AGAIN... (at least I hope) ...fingers crossed!
Awesome girl!
Orthene is Acephate. The U.S. annually uses 4-5 million pounds of acephate. However, even in small quantities, acephate throws off the navigation systems of white-throated sparrows and other songbirds, making them unable to tell north from south. Keep using Listernine - it's safer.
...but if the thrips continues to kill off my flowers and spikes...and eventually my vandas...I have to tell you there will be a lot of white throated sparrows and song birds zig zagging through the sky, confused and trying to figure out what direction they are going...LOL!!! Just joking...but on a serious note I am trying out the Listerine...which seems to be working so far...fingers crossed....either that or they are being effected by the cooler weather...I will hold off unless I am left with no option.
LOL funny....birds zig zagging...confused LOL...
LOL...I'M JUST SAYIN'...can I keep it real?! LMBO!!!
hey i'm right there with you MW...Truth sayer i will always be
+TD Moore INDEED! :)
OMG! Yes! I’ll fight for my orchids!
I'm 100% sure you'll win the battle Maria !!! Yes you will ... 👍 and all that without harming your little creature friends. 🐸🐜🐞
Thank you for your vote of confidence...and if there is a will...THERE IS A WAY!!!! :)
Hi maria do you spray the listerine full strength or do you mix?
Do you still use listerine for thrips with success and do you spray your Vanda roots and leaves with it?
Thanks sweetly for this video, mine got that problems and I didn't know what happen so I will spray with listerine hopefully work it out.
Your welcome!!! ...and you too!!! YIKERS!!! Be vigilant and do all you can!! Never give up...and let me know how it works for you...I have been spraying them down often and it seems to be working so far...good luck my friend. :)
Hi maria do i need to add water? Or is it just pure listerine?
Hi Maria!, hope you win this war. Much love from New York :-).
INDEED!!! THANK YOU! Much love from Florida! :)
I don’t care this 4 years ago video. Yes dont give up even it’s so frustrating with thrips. Dangnamit with thrips. Yasss I just finished my battles with them as I put on this comment, i need to let it out of my system. Today is not a very good day to start but I’ve done much to protect them. In additional perhaps this tips can help gardener that’s just love flowering plants, Try to avoid planting/placing your orchids together with ornamental flowering plants. Just so happen that my ytt, jasmines and gardenias flowering at the same time my mimi palmer, onc coco and 1 cattleya just started to bloom. It’s like an open buffets for pest to dine in 😤
Is the Listerine still working for you? What kind of preventive schedule do you use?
Listerine has worked in several cases...but I must admit I have had to resort to the heavy duty insecticides of which I absolutely hate but in my growing environment have not been able to avoid. I have gotten certain beetles and also grasshoppers that do not respond to the treatment.
I hope this works on my orchid..thank u so much
I use 409 cleaner with rubbing alcohol for mites. would this work? the only sign showing on my vandas is girdled roots and brown areas on the new root tips that then stop growing... didn't know what it was until I did some research!
Maria knows thrips' lingo, it seems :D :D
HA HA HA!!! I'VE HAD ENOUGH EXPERIENCE WITH THEM!! I had to make it up as I go!!! LOL!!! But indeed it has left an everlasting impression!
While the experience with them gives you.... well, lots of experience, I would not love to experience them to gain experience, better to gain informed experience from others' experience ..... LOLZ........(HAH, I call that wishful thinking, but I hope it works :D )
Hi Maria. I'm searching for your video on making the soda bottle terrariums
Do you wash the Listerine off?
No I don't...and I use it at full srength.
Use biological insecticide Neem oil or Neem based to treat for the thrips
I have never tried Neem oil...I have been afraid of the oil that may disrupt the function of the roots....but one day I may give it a go! Thanks for the suggestion. :)
Do you think that the hurricanes might have blown them in? Still sneaky little huggers.
From my experience, it is just a normal occurrence. Best course of action is preventative maint. She could have gotten a plant from somebody that was already infested without her knowledge also and then they spread from there! Very common and really nothing you can do other than spray spray spray! At least every two weeks.
Wow that is too bad but I am sure she will win the war...lol.
I am not sure where they came from...I was thinking perhaps hell!!! These are absolute monsters I tell you! :(
Hi Maria
Do you apply full strength Listerine?
Yes I do.
I need help i know this is a few yrs old but i live up in ND and first time i have had a balcony to have beautiful plants. Well :( my poor mini roses started wilting and falling of then i seen tiny white things and talked to a friend found out i have these nasty little buggers. How am i to submerge those :( won't they drown UGH i was told antibacterial soap or something. I get notifications when someone replies. All the advise and help would greatly be appreciated :( i never seem to be able to keep plants alive and these are doing so well. I have a video on my facebook and it's public Tamara Kotaska Thank you so much if you get back to me.
oh my, you poor thing! I will bring you some orthene tomorrow!! That is not a good sight to see!
RIGHT! ...and great seeing you!!! Thanks for not getting me in trouble this time!!! LOL! ;)
That sucks!!!!!
RIGHT!!!! TOTALLY SUCKS :( :( :( BUT REVENGEIS MINE!!! LOL!
i use malathione, available at lowes by spectracide. it's a concentrate, you use 1 teaspoon per gallon h2o. i never need a whole gallon so i use a eyedropper and and add a few drops to a cup of water. check the dilution info on the bottle, and convert it to smaller quantities. do NOT use more than recommended dilution, you will burn the plant. do not use as a soil drench! you will kill the plant. its only used as a leaf spray. i always wet the plant with a water spray first, then spray the malathione. this stuff will clean your thrips problem up presto. keep your space sterile and move the plants in after they are treated and you won't see thrips again for 6 months or a year. another good product readily available is the stuff made from chrysanthemum petals.there are many brands but the ingredient is prethrins, 0.02%, and piperonyl butoxide, 0.20%. again wet the plants first before spraying. as to the orthene product, ortho has taken it off the market due to toxicity, i think, but they still sell a product for fire ants. orthene is a systemic insecticide which means you drench the soil and the roots uptake the poison and the bugs feeding on the juices get it and die. the ingredient in orthene is acephate, google that and see the options. i would not use it indoors, and wear a respirator if you do decide to try it. i still have a bottle from the 70's, but i never use it anymore. i don't like the smell or the fact you are supposed to discard your clothes after spraying it.
Thank you. I started using asphate and I haven't had any problems with the thrips or other insects since. Although it does have such a horrid smell to it.
hi there, yes remember if you can smell it you are breathing it in. i think it's shown to cause cancer. wear gloves and cover yourself up head to toe. i am afraid of that one.
malathione can be used to wash your hair for lice and spray your cat/dog for fleas. directions say it can be used up to the day of harvest. it's great for mosquitoes, it's the stuff the trucks spray in neighborhoods at night to control them. if you have a flea outbreak in your basement, this is the stuff to use.
the pyrethrin is probably the safest, it deactivates in sunlight the next day. so spray it in the evening. i am always worried about adverse reactions of the plant being sprayed. i have orchids , afr violets, and ornamental cacti. seems to be no harm.
the only thing that i do not like is all the little spiders will be killed. they are natures predators, and i encourage them an my collection. i get them off the plant before i spray. you can blast them off with water first, then spray.
Thanks so much for the extra information on this. I am going to have to pick some up. That is the main thing I hate about asphate....it can be quite hazardous to the environment and even to our own safety. I have seen a couple of lizards that did not survive the spraying and was really quite sad about it...because my frogs and lizards are my garden pets as well. So I would love to switch to something that is safer. Again thank you so much for sharing! :)
Bob S Bob that stuff is nasty!!
Get to the point 😬
Feather LOL! AYE AYE CAPTAIN!