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@nellz4estfairyz avatar @nellz4estfairyz · 1M
#PestControl After about 2 months of treatments I can say that I *might* be pest free! in October, I looked over at my favorite Hoya Australis Lisa and found thrips crawling on it. I’ve never seen thrips before so it took me a minute to realize what I was dealing with. I had no idea where it came from but must’ve been from one of the new plants I brought into the house over the summer or from an outdoor plant that had been brought in for the fall. I spent two weeks taking every single plant in my collection outside before the weather turned cold and frosty. Spraying everything down with the mist setting on the hose, letting everything dry, then spraying everything with a rubbing alcohol soapy, water solution. Then everything was treated with eather MiteX or We the Wild Protect Spray or both, because everything had to be treated more than once a week in order to beat the life cycle of the the thrips and their eggs hatching. I am still treating plants in the affected rooms about 1x per week as a precaution. I DID throw out quite a few plants during this time, most of which just wernt healthy enough to make worth my time to treat and carry in and out of the hose every week. So I guess this experience did help me to trim down my collection. 😅 another quarantine/treatment method I used was to take affected plants and bag them up in either large gallon Ziploc bags or large 13 gallon recycling bags which I was able to tie around my large Hoya and two large hanging baskets. Most of the plants treated in this method enjoyed the spa day, but I lost one small smaller Hoa that apparently had been locked in with too much water/humidity. 😢 #GregGang #Hoya #PothosPack #thestruggleisreal #WetheWild #thrips #PestsAndPlants #NEPAGregGang