I brought my pepper plants indoors for the winter and now I see aphids on them. What the fuck...

Be sure to play Serbian Patriotic music in the background

are they gay?

Yes, and its more enviromental friendly (or plain acetic acid)

These ones are green this time, not pink.

gonna need an entirely different approach. You wash them with soap, it sprays the gay away. Now they're green. No idea man.
Though now that they're inside the ladybirds might be a decent approach, wouldn't need many.

just get a ton of ladybugs

I'm not unleashing a generation of ladybugs inside my house.

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I don't need an infestation of another insect to replace the first one. Stop taunting me, it's completely logical.

I even spent this morning hand pollinating every flower I saw on my pepper plants. I don't want this to all go to waste.

Burn your infested plants, because now you have aphids living in your house and you will never be rid of them without bug-bombing the entire building.
Period.

Then buy pepper plants in the spring.
That bottle of poison spray is going to cost you more than buying really nice established plants.
Use your fucking brain!

That's dumb, aphids are flightless and slow moving, they live by sucking sap out of plants. They don't infest anything except plants. My house is perfectly safe.

you fucked your plants???

Get some spiders

this.
will solve your ladybird problem.

I took a q-tip and rubbed it on the stamens of all of their flowers.

If you have other plants in your house, the aphids started heading in that direction the minute you brought them in. They are in your carpet, in the cracks of your floor, under your chairs, and they will do exactly as I said.
Wait and see for yourself, I don't care. I don't have anything to gain or lose either way.

I have no other plands.

Also, that's dumb, aphids die if you knock them off plants with water a lot of times because it takes them too long to crawl back to the plant. They would die long before they can crawl all the way across a room.

you still haven't explained why you jacked off to bee porn, came in a cup, and stuck a q-tip in it, rubbed it on the plants' genitalia

I didn't do that. I didn't even fuck my pepper plants. Technically, they fucked themselves and I just helped them get the act done.

OP admits to his actions
next step: OP posts his bee porn collection

Wouldn't it be called "flower porn", not "bee porn"? I mean you don't call pictures of naked girls "man porn".

NEEM OIL FAGGOT

Laybugs. Ladybugs will eat the aphids.

What happens when they run out of food though? I'm not OP, but I have a similar problem and I don't want any ladybugs to starve.

Aphids. Aphids will feed the ladybugs.

But that means I'd need to maintain a stable population of aphids, defeating the purpose of the ladybugs.

Maybe just release the ladybugs to the outside world or something then?

to maintain the population of aphids you just need more pepper plants
sacrifice 1 plant at a time in a contained, ladybird-free environment. switch out the plants to feed the ladybirds. personally castrate the boy-ladybirds to prevent overpopulation. personally impregnate the lady-ladybirds.

poor buggers would freeze to death soon wouldn't they'?

I suppose that's a viable solution. Scale up pepper production then balance the ecosystem so the aphid population declines to zero as the ladybug population dies of natural causes.

OP here I don't care if ladybugs die I just want all of the aphids to be exterminated and my peppers to be free of insects trying to kill them.

Ok, You're still gonna want to take some population control measures though. If you don't and they manage to breed, this might happen. They especially like to clump together like this in the winter.

Depending on the time of year, only female aphids might be present, though they'll just produce clonal daughters without sex.

that's gay

There's only one suitable course of action OP.
Or, you could, you know, use an insecticide

ladybugs are /comfy/ tbh

If you consider oozing foul smelling acid out of your kneecaps comfy i guess.

Already on it, I ordered a bottle of online.

best of luck user
in the meantime please remember to pollinate your plants regularly

Maybe cover the plant with plastic bottle and take some leaves out and left them on the floor for the aphids?

This actually gives me a good idea. Put the plant in a plastic bag with some dry ice. Once the CO2 concentration gets high enough it will kill the aphids but it shouldn't harm the plant. Leave it like that for an hour and see if they're dead.

Professional herbologist here: this might sound like crap, but it honestly works… dilute semen with garlic and water, and spray it on the leaves, once a day. You'll see them little pesky critters drop in no time.

Get lady bugs?

Ladybugs do no harm and do eat aphids. Caulk up your walls properly and they'll be easily exterminated.

One hour have passed so how did it go?

Feeling when your basil plant flowers and you think it's cute then it starts tasting bitter and turning yellow

Doesn't anybody grow LSD anymore?

Dat feel when living in a commie block and don't have a land

Are you dumb?

Yes.

I voted for Trump

LSD is not a plant it is artificial.

I have LSD berries growing from my LSD bush tho

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Show us another miracle!
Is not the miracle of the LSD Bush enough?!?

You feed the LSD to the plant so LSD is not a plant!

Use Dr Zymes does the same thing without the bullshit

bigggg if true

Shut up

Shutting up big true time

Find some ladybirds.
Put 1-2 on each plant.
If they fly away out the window, find another and put it on.
They eat aphids. I did it for my jalapeno plants.

heres what you do;
get a trash bag, put the infested plant inside, put a hunk of dry ice in the bag with the plant, seal the bag up.
as the dry ice sublimates it will fill the bag with co2, which will suffocate the aphids, but wont hurt the plant…

ayylmao. never change Holla Forums.

They're called ladybugs you yuropoor sack of shit.

intredasting tbh

Ladybugs
Neem
Water+Neutral detergent (mlld solution, test in a small part before aplying to the whole plant)

Oh fuck, ladybird is a valid name.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinellidae

Kill me.

Where do you think English came from.
New England?

Kys

One request at a time.
Did you also read the part where it says "Britain and the rest of the English speaking worls" for ladybird, the correct name.
Also, that they are not bugs.
Did no one ever tell you that you are speaking English as a foreign language.

But I really do.

Are you a cute 16 year old girl from Patagonia?
If so, want to meet up?
I'll drive to your house with a crate of condoms and a shopping bag full of second hand dildos and vibrators, along with 7 or 8 bottles of 40% volume spirits and we can - chat.

I'm 27 year old and from Russia.

Are you a cute blonde female called Svetlana?
Do you have long, slender legs and spit on homeless people while you drive your 2.5 million kopek car around.

Unfortunately no.

Do you squat.
Do you know that Russia is part of Europe, and significantly poorer than all of western Europe.

Yes.
Russia is located in both Europe and Asia.

did you try cumming on them? If that fails your only alternative is taking enough of them to make a paste and use them as a butter that you'll lube the stairs up with, watch your sister enter coma after she slips and use her while she's still fresh.

Are you an asian hottie, 17 year old Mongolian rural girl with fat thighs and ripe buttocks, with giant flopping breasts and a rosey smile?

Get some ladybugs, dumbass.

will trapbugs work just as well?

Ladybirds.
Ladybirds aren't bugs. Look it up.

In all seriousness though, you can grow Hawaiian Baby Woodrose and get LSA which is largely similar to LSD.

ladybirds aren't bugs
they're birds

They are beetles. Beetles are bugs.

Reading this thread I#m now convinced OP needs to get ladybugs first.
After they ate the aphids he needs to get spiders to eat those ladybugs.
Being than confronted with a house full of spiders, getting agressive because of the lack of ladybugs, he needs to get birds to eliminate the spiders. Maybe sparrows?
But a house full of sparrows also doesnt seem to be a nice place to live.
The answer? Hawks!
Hawks require martens to get rid of them.
Martens require foxes. The only real way to get rid of half a douzen of foxes though seems to be the human, a huntsman to be precise.
So, OPs house will probably look like pic related soon.
My advice for your aphids problem: get some earplugs.

why not ladybirds

Because the spiders already ate the ladybirds. Try to keep up.

I unload the special shipment from the back

so we will basically have a shitload of japanesegirls dressed as ladybugs?
Doesnt really seem to solve the problem, since i bet they are scared of spiders.
This just adds to the problem (depending on your stances on japanese girls dressed as ladybugs)!

we'll use lolibirds will attract the natural enemy of spiders, namely white knights

But then the white knights will just put them in cups and let them go outside where they can just sneak back in.

dust em

OP here
I will order diatomaceous earth next to do that if the insecticide doesn't work.

Also thank you for continuing the discussion to keep my thread alive, friends. Even if some of it was silly argument over calling ladybugs something stupid like ladybirds.

Actually, fuck it. I just placed an order for the diatomaceous earth + duster. The aphid scourge will regret messing with my peppers. I'm going to fill their skies with acid and cover their earth with razor blades.

Just torch the plant! Fuck mini-spiders in the house

The goal here is to keep the plant alive. I want second year plants so I get hundreds of peppers next summer.

i am proud. go give those aphids hell

This and garlic vinegar onion water leave overnight and fine mist it onto plants.

Better to kill them is just soap solution take a basic bar of soap grate some off and use hotwater to dissolve it. Again mist the plant. And rinse it off chillies you will eat.

Indoors on windowledge in a warm room or greenhouse is fine.

Cayenne peppers are used in cayenne pepper its ground dried cayenne peppers if you run out,alot of hotsauce use them too such as crystal.

How does one do gardening, it'd be cool to have some Rosemary, Parsely and Sage for cooking

Is it reasonably possible to dig up a garden pepper plant and pot it to bring in? My serranos would be easiest to try but I really don't need more of them.

I am being serious here.
Once you get the diatomaceous earth mix a little in a spray bottle with some water and coconut oil. Neem oil is good to add also. So is Citronella. Highly recommended. The diatomaceous earth will kill the aphids, the oil will suffocate and kill the eggs, and no more aphids will be had.
Enjoy the chilies!

OP here. I will share you what I did, this summer was the first time I ever grew something myself.

Holy shit congrats autismo. Growing plants is soo difficult.

It is? I just made sure to give them plenty of sun, I started them from seed indoors using a grow light before putting them outdoors. And I just water every time they look thirsty. I checked on them every day to see their progress and just got new dirt and replaced the top inch of soil with clean soil. I also got some fertilizer for them for the first time to feed them while they are inside for the winter.

Not just kill them but it would make Vlad the impaler proud. It rips in to their exoskeleton tearing them apart with thousands of cuts

Aphid Apocalypse Now

poo on your plant for the protective fecal aura it provides, the aroma can be masked with simple neutralizing agent if that is of concern…but seriously…just shit right near your pepppers

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Could make a good theme for a character in Advance Wars.

Diatomaceous earth tomorrow, friends. I can't see any aphids at the moment after my dawn spray two days ago, but any remaining will soon be living in a landmine of razor blades.

I sprayed both of my pepper plants down with the insecticide and then dusted them with diatomaceous earth. Aphids will rue the day.
I just looked outside and I saw a ladybug crawling on the deck near my peppers :3 Will the diatomaceous earth hurt ladybugs? I don't have anything against them, they are my friends in this fight.