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*oooofff* ...hearty Rep' slap Marga', thank you much brudda! I'm happy to help,... You and Rhyce are putting on a Mephisto clinic here, I'm telling you!
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... thrips are little Ninja's! .. more often than not, I see the damage only, seldom the vermin themselves... dine-and-shine!
... never hurts to treat the soil,... they undergo a sort of pupal stage in there, but don't feed at that time fortunately! Have you tried out a Spinosad product before? I like it a lot, as it's effective, food safe/"organic", leaves minimal residues, and is far less spendy than Azamax,... like Azamax, it doesn't kill right away, but sickens them first, halting feeding, and croaking out about a day later! ...acts as a neurotoxin-
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..give your nice hounds a scratch for me, ay? :smoking: