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Originally Posted by Rfdillon
What are effective treatments for thrips?
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Yellow sticky traps will reduce them tremendously.
Also if you are getting more humidity than usual from all the rain/heat combo, using an electric toothbrush on the blossoms will reduce the blossom drop a lot. The pollen gets sticky and buzzing the flowers with an electric toothbrush helps the pollen drop to where it needs to be. I live on the intracoastal waterway and have high humidity year round and if I don't do the electric toothbrush trick I get lots of blossom drop. Assuming other things are ok and the plants are healthy and producing blossoms, this is something that it wouldn't hurt to try. You can pick up a cheap battery powered electric toothbrush at a dollar store for a few bucks.
Watch the video below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFzyIi6yn8Q
Ginny