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Old 11-11-2008, 02:19 PM
sharone sharone is offline
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Originally Posted by jives11 View Post
On 29 Nov, 18:21, Marco Schwarz wrote:
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..! :-)

Thanks for the encouraging,informative and rapid replies. What is an
F1 hybrid - it's not an eco racing car I assume

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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Marco
I experienced the pests mentioned above, on taking a leaf to the local garden centre the guy got out his magnifying glass and diagnosed red spider mite.The spray he gave me worked a treat , i had to use it once a week for 4 weeks as this the life cycle of the mite .