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| Two weeks ago, I pruned out several dozen buds that never quite opened after I slacked off of the Conserve and Avid for a couple of weeks. The thrips had chewed them to bits.
Then I sprayed Naturalis L last weekend for the first time. Light-colored blooms looked amazingly clean during the week after - Peace, Gold Medal, Double Delight. I can hardly believe it, too - for the first time outside of a chilly late-October, I may have a spotless Elina bloom. I sprayed it again this morning. Temps will be in the low 90's this afternoon and reached mid-80's yesterday. Yet, my Garden Party has about 6, very clean - very white - blooms on it (2nd flush). Pristine and Tiffany are on the verge of a 2nd flush, too, with a bunch more Elina's on the way. If this holds up, they'll all be clean, too. They may really have discovered a weapon for thrips:
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- Posted by henry_kuska z5 OH (kuska@neo.rr.com) on Sat, May 26, 12 at 11:38
| Thank you rosetom. I assume that this product is not compatabile with the use of fungicides for blackspot. Any comments? |
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| Wow! That's great news! Thanks for sharing it. Any pictures of all those pretties? |
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| No pics yet this season, I've been trying to get all my roses back into exhibition form and haven't had time. Henry, you are correct - not only can it not be mixed with a fungicide, but it cannot be used within 3 days of any fungicide spraying. You need to take great care to have everything rinsed thoroughly, too. To be honest, I'm pushing my regular fungicide spraying to 3-4 weeks right now, to give this stuff a chance to work. I'll spray it again next week and then start back on the fungicide the week after that. |
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| Hi tom, I'm desperate enough to try it. How long do you think a bottle of it will last? I have about 100 roses, half of which are being ruined by thrips. Also, where can I get Indicate? I've been spraying every two weeks. I missed one week when it was raining and I had a little bs outbreak. But I think now that the hotter weather is here to stay, I'll be able to go three weeks between fungicide sprayings So I should wait at least 3 days from spraying the Bayer to spraying this stuff? |
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| Nevermind! I saw the indicate and bought that and the Naturalis. Hope it works!!! |
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| Good luck! It's expensive, but a lot less than a decent bottle of Floramite if you were having a mite outbreak. I mean - really, thrips made me give up this hobby about 5 years ago. I've returned to it in the last couple of years, but the thrips were about to make me give it up again. If I can't cut roses and bring them in the home/office in a nice vase (or maybe photograph them), then there's no point in doing this. I tried hard this season - our mild winter really gave them a head start, especially after I let them languish for several years. The first flush was pretty good and I was all over them with Conserve overall and Avid on the buds. But I just couldn't keep it up every single week. Then as I noted in the first post, things got so bad that the remaining blooms from the spring flush didn't even open. Of course, Elina easily had 2 dozen blooms - most of them 5 inches across on at least 3 foot stems. Yet, all of them got thrown in the trash. Crystalline wasn't much better - just a dozen blooms in all, but all ruined. Pristine, Secret, Lagerfeld, most of Iceberg, etc., etc. - all ruined. Anyway, I had seen Naturalis L prominently displayed on Rosemania this year and decided to call Robbie Tucker and ask him the latest on thrips control. He suggested giving this a try and letting him know how it worked. Posting this thread is my first step. I'M IMPRESSED. |
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| Great, I will let you know my results. I'm past the first flush, starting with the second and the thrips are out of control. It's been getting worse every year. |
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