Ferrarium grow bags against thrips 10 bags

Organic grow bags against thrips

Do you often suffer from thrips on your plants? Especially houseplants but also vegetable plants and grapes can be plagued by thrips. Are you tired of always being behind the curve? Then opt to work preventively with grow bags against thrips.

What’s in the grow bags?

The breeding bags contain Neoseiulus cucumeris predatory mites in various stages, but also flour mites and a carrier of bran. The flour mites feed on the bran and in turn are food for the predatory mites.

Neoseiulus (=Amblyseius) cucumeris is a beige predatory mite of about 3 mm in size in adult stage. The predatory mites quickly distribute themselves among the plants. They prick their prey and suck it out. An adult Neoseiulus cucumeris lives about 3 weeks.

This predatory mite eats eggs and young larvae from thrips but not adult thrips. Predatory mites will sprout from the breeding bags for 5 to 6 weeks, so that the first thrips infestation is immediately suppressed.

When to use grow bags against thrips?

• Ideal for houseplants to prevent damage on the leaves. Thrip-sensitive houseplants are Monstera species, Tradescancia species, Calatheas, Anthuriums, Ficuses, roses and gerberas.
• If you have bought new houseplants, insulate them and treat them with grow bags against thrips. Often houseplants are infected with thrips from the grower.
• Can prevent thrips on vegetables such as cucumber, bell pepper, melon or eggplant
• Can be used preventively with grapes and strawberries. Be sure to do it if you suffer from thrips every year.
• Operates at temperatures higher than 20°C (at least several hours) during the day, 6°C at night.
• Ideal also for hanging grow bags after a trip infestation. This way you continue to enjoy protection for another 5 weeks to clean up the hatching eggs.

Advantages of grow bags?

• Easy and quick to hang, the grow bags are equipped with a hook to hang on the plants.
• Can be used both indoors and in the greenhouse.
• 5 weeks of protection and new predatory mites in the plants.
• Cheap to buy

How to use grow bags against thrips?

• Hang at least 1 grow bag on each plant when the plants do not touch each other.
• If you have large houseplants, hang 2 to 3 grow bags per plant.
• If the plants grow in each other and therefore form a whole, count 1 grow bag per m2.

Attention: The predatory mites leave the breeding bags through the pre-punctured openings in the bag. Do NOT enlarge the perforated hole in the grow bag because then the culture will dry out. Do not moisten the grow bags unnecessarily.

After 5 to 6 weeks, the grow bags must be replaced if you want to maintain the protection against thrips. If you systematically put out propagation bags against thrips in the (indoor) plants, the thrips do not get a chance to develop.

Can I store grow bags against thrips?

Since the breeding bags have a pre-punctured hole, the predatory mites can sprout when they are ready. The grow bags will therefore run out in the box if you do not hang them in the plants in time.

Please note that you cannot return this product. This is because it is a “live” product, which therefore has a very limited shelf life. Therefore, buy the product only when you really need it, and then use it within two weeks of purchase.