I am wondering if any one else received this gift: Out of 29 thousand poinsettia plugs I received a shipment with ship date of July 16, 2007 from Ecke Ranch and the Shimmer Surprise on this shipment came infested with white fly eggs. I have now one bench which is my hot spot and I have done the following:
7-29 Conserve (cuttings had obvious thrip old damage)
8-12 Endeavor + Enstar II
8-22 Endeavor + Enstar II
8-31 Selected table,Marathon granulars
9-1 surrounding tables, Safari deanch
9-3 whole house Safari spray
9-4 individual plants: hand pick old leaves and hand kill any adults
9-4 moved to seperate house spraying with ultra fine oil today.

I seem to have kept them from spreading far. All the other thousands of plants have been beautiful and no WF problems. Just wondering if I am the only one who received such a early Christmas gift! LOL

<I seem to have kept them from spreading far>

LOL! Given your treatment regime, I'd be surprised if there is a live arthropod within fifty miles!

Did you consider Spiromesifen (Judo)? Allegedly it has pretty good ovicidal activity.

I didn't receive any WF gifts, though I did get some Prestige Maroon cuttings that looked they were drug through the street. But I guess we couldn't call ourselves professional growers unless we're able to rise to these little challenges...

Good Luck!

RJay, I do use Judo in my rotations and do get good results with it. Not quite time for it here though! On the whole this was a minor problem ~ ~ being I did catch it early enough and it remined me to stay on my toes... I like your words, little challenges !

Happy growing,
dawnc

Your Marathon and Safari applications have probably given you control. This is a good reference on activity of different products. http://www.mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/LSO/DOCUMENTS/Whitefly%20M...0Program-3-26-06.pdf

Marathon and Safari do not kill the oldest immature stage which does not feed. So depending on temperatures and development rate, new adults will emerge for a week or so and not be killed until they start feeding on treated plants.

Whitefly seems to be starting out as a little bigger problem this year. In the southeast there are large numbers coming in from outside. Jim

Jim, thank you for the reference site...never have enough information ~ ~ right ? Good luck with your season down there.