yeah i always go from seed doing pretty well but wont be as far as peoples plug plants and so on. just checked outside on my biggest ghost pepper plant damn the bugs have hammered some of the leaves...little buggers.
it does suck and ive had it myself i even went as deep as to buy ladybirds off amazon a few years ago !Took my plants outside today to give them a bit of sun, one shrivelled up, the other two didn't look too healthy either.
Realised they are all aphid infected
Washed the aphids off the healthy two, but the shrivelled one is gone I think.
I've moved them next to a rosemary plant to try and attract ladybirds as suggested, but I think this might be a case of either keep washing the plants heavily for a while or thinking about getting some kind of aphid killing pesticide.
So annoying. Given the cost and effort especially with just a couple of plants, I think I'd be better off buying the chilli fruits online instead!
i put the plants in a big closed box and stuck in the lady birds just to see how it would turn out they cleared them up within a day. but it was pricey but more of a experiment curiosity to see if it would work. my ghost pepper plant outside been ravaged same at mo but i have some inside as well. so we will see how it goes.you even got a few little helpers keeping the bugs off
Its been a wierd spring cold for a long time tomatoes barely moved until the end of may and french beans only got sowed in the first week in june. Sowed an entire packet of nasturtiums and not one came up luckily plenty of self sown seedlings from last years crop popped up so was able to move those
