Hi..

jives11 wrote:

greetings,

Retourned..! :-)

I bought a small potted houseplant Chilli pepper ("Apache") back in
October and have had some excellent chillies from it.

Fine but it's a F1 hybrid..

1) many of the leaves have small holes and on investigation, there are
pinkish/brown aphids on the undersides. I have tried immersing the
plant upside down in soapy water a few times, then rinsing. This
doesn't seem to help. I have also removed the little blighters by
hand, but they seem to come back. The leaves look a bit dull and limp
too.

Welcome to the club..! :-)

Where (and how) do you keep them..? Here there's only _one_ sort that seem
to make trouble..

And relating to the main question "what's really normal today"..?:

Nothing..!?!

On the plus side I have kept the seeds and planted a few in a pot and
they seem to have germinated so I intend growing some more plants.

Well but it's a F1 hybrid..
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cu
Marco