What kind of sprayer do you use?? I use a Dramm MSO for hand spraying and it works well. It has a 12 gallon tank and the spray is adjustable from mist to stream easily. The sprayer is probably 8 years old so it is also very durable.
Jeremiah
Thrips
I was using my 1 1/2 L hand pump Gilmour. I have at least 5 of them. I use them for everything but I was getting sick of filling them up. So I bought a 2 gallon pump up that was a disaster. I would pump it up and the hose would disconnect and spray 15 ft., even hit a lady in another garden down at the rented pliots. I was so glad I was only spraying Neem. I would have to push the hose back on to stop the pressurized flow and I would get covered in the stuff. That lasted one day. So I went back to Lowes and got a 2 gallon hand pump made for Round Up. It looked like a simple design. I just want one that is light enough to carry around and one that actually works. I haven't tried it yet.
!2 gallon would be a lot of spray for me to use and so heavy!! Though that would be a good size when I foliar feed if I could drag it around.
Jeremiah, surely your 12 gal tank is on wheels, huh? I would like about a 5 gal roll around sprayer, but I'm reaching the point that I'm using stuff in the water hose sprayer...I hate spraying chemicals!!
Just came back from Spraying the two nasties (Avid and Hexagon) on all the Brugs (count em - 48)...soaking the stems and leaves and ground. One more application in 5 days should do the trick...then Wettable Sulpher every 10-15 days is recommended.
Why are my lips numb?
For this stuff I use cheap ACE sprayers, one for each application: Miticide, fungicide, Messenger/fert. Bob uses a 3 gal. backpack for Garlon and RoundUp. We have a 16 gal. tank with a pump we haul in the tractor cart we use for RoundUp and wash it out to Foliar Feed.
Later....I have a short helper coming to strip the seedlings this a.m. in the Shade House and I will spray them too...
Carol, I cannot imagine where you find the energy to type, what a day!! Is it possible to do something prophylactically to avoid it in the future and, is it thrips, and, if so, are thrips more likely to pray on seedlings or do they go for established plants too?? I surely hope your efforts pay off - I bet you sleep good tonight, whew!!
Sherry...HA! Just a typical day in Paradise!!!
Well...turns out they were NOT thrips, but Carmine Spider Mites and Broad Mites. Broad mites seem to like to hang out in the calyxes and buds...so I had to strip everything. Getting the Avid and the Hexagon should nuke them....and the wettable sulpher should keep them at bay (sacrificing a fatted calf this evening in the hopes....)
We are getting a big storm in about an hour...something about living in the middle of an ocean...a dying tropical depression...so I fertilized everything heavily... Off to the greenhouse....I love it in there in a storm!!!
Carol
I love rain and storms too, Carol!!! I would never make it in one of those zones that are prefect for brugs, I gotta have a dose of weather now and then. Are you guys live close to 'town', like do you have a mall, lol, I'm a shopper...your place appears remote in your photos, and so serene, I just cannot imagine how a city would fit in...
Well - we are 16 miles from Hilo...a small town. One mall with a Sears, Macy's, and a Walmart across the street. There's a Ross. That's IT! We did have a JC Penny's but they left town-no business. Home Depot JUST opened up. You can practically spit across town. We have some closer villages but they are too small to imagine (one has an Ace Hardware, Post Office, Health Food Store, McDonalds, Gas Station, 5 cafes and an awful grocery store. We are definitely AGricultural!
ROTF, nope, Carol, they are not too small for me to imagine, my town doesn't even have a stop light, lol!! I was pretty certain that there was more going on in your area than mine, but I'm 5 minutes from Sonic, Walmart, a nice Chinese restaurant, the golf/tennis club & bar and the south AR UPS terminal is only 6 blocks away...and, if that's not enough, I'm a comfortable drive away from Little Rock, Jackson MS, Memphis, New Orleans, and Dallas...
Hey Sherry,
I had my first fried sweet potatoes in a restaurant near Little Rock. LOL I might be willing to live there to get more of them. Yum. Didn't think I'd like them, but I did!
Mary
Fried anything is first choice for me...but my hips say...'Just say NO'.
oh, come on now, surely got room and time to go get some fried icecream with me.
I never heard of fried sweet potatoes. Do they make them like French fries??
Oh my.... I have had them once. Done like french fries and sprinkled with chedder cheese that was then melted... I was an instant convert!! yummo..
Now I will add sweet potatoes when I do my "oven fries" It's the only way to eat Sweet potatoes! (other than in pie)
Of course, I LOVE sweet potatoes and it appears that the sweet potato is the 'new', trendy veggie. I prefer them candied with orange marmalade, my daddy made the world's best. They are good fried, but I'm a baked, grilled, broiled girl. Mary, I've had some great food & fun in your state in small areas, Half Moon Bay, was super, we now make that a regular stop. Mary, where did you dine near Little Rock?? I'm delighted you enjoyed the sweet potatoes, Arky is a fun state, it's like one big city, with lots of room and we all know each other...
It was in a restaurant in Conway about 30 miles from Little Rock. We were on our way to New Orleans for vacation and detoured over there to see one of my Husband's airplane buddies. The restaurant did them up like french fries. I'm a little hesitant about trying new things so it was a nice surprise that I liked them.
These people used to live here in San Diego and sold their home to move back near her relatives. They were able to buy a nicer home and also have a couple hundered thousand left over. We may do that when we retire - just don't know where we'll retire to.
Mary
Are Sweet Potatos the same as yams? With the really red insides? Either way, I like to bake them and then eat them cold with a bit of Spicey Salt. Good for you too!
Not sure, but I "think" they are the same. I think calling them sweet potatoes might have been a marketing thing. Could be wrong, but it seems I read that somewhere.
Mary
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I didn't get a chance to read all th eposts, I wanted to know if anybody knows of a picture of thrips so I can see what they look like.
thanks
kathy
Well, I'll be, never seen them before, thanks.
kathy
Sweet potato is smooth, yam is rough, both are good!!! Yams are better, to me, backed with the skin, then eaten cold. I like both and they are really good for you...
probably not the way I like 'em
mashed with lots of butter, salt and pepper
or come Thanksgiving... If I'm invited over for groceries there better be some candied yams. Those are so good when done right. That includes the marshmallows melted on top too.
A new book about eating for Micronutrients lists the top of the necessary foods as pumkin/hubbard/acorn type squash, Spinach/kale/chard and Sweet Potatoes/yams. A body builder woman I know eats them for the minerals and lack of fat/calories. She probably doesn't use butter.
Are Sweet Potatoes related to Thrips?
get Kevin Bacon on the phone... he could probably hook us up with the 6 degrees of separation path
Hahaha, only the Sweet Potato Queen can hook you up with the 6 degrees of thrips...you know the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone, yada, yada...how's that for Monday morning gibberish...