Insecticide soap. Be sure to look everywhere tops and especially the bottoms of leaves. Isolate the plant if possible and check surrounding plants.
jboneng
Aphids, multiply like crazy and stunt the growth of your plants (and can kill your plants). A very common pest. There are multiple ways to deal with ’em, the most effective, I have found is pyrethrin-based pest spray, drench all your plants with it, and make sure to also do the underside of the leaves (they like to hang out and lay eggs there) repeat after 7 days after the first treatment.
Another way to deal with them, if you want to go the organic route, is to make a mixture of two teaspoons of neem oil and two teaspoons of dish soap into 1 liter of water, shake it up, and if you see an oily film on top of the water add a bit more dish soap and shake again, put the mixture into a sprayer and spray the affected parts of the plants, but not drench the plant, since it leaves an oily residue on the plant that can affect the plant negatively.
A quick fix right now is to spray the plants with weak soapy water, but they will come back.
Or you can kick them off with a heavy spray with water.
Or my favorite squish them with your thumb.
Helpful-Form5279
Aphids are the worst!
SlipperyStairs420
Lady bugs. Prevent overcrowding. If the plant is small enough soap and water. They don’t cling very well so a stream of water will push them off.
likesexonlycheaper
Nope perfectly normal
hibee_jibee
If you only have few plants and they’ll go outside eventually, just take the soft brush and brush them off. Check again a few days later and brush off again. Just keep at the number control. No need to soaping, neeming or any of that crap. Aphids will be dealt with with their natural predators once you place your plants outside and it’ll be fine.
artaaa1239
You are “Lucky” that this happend now that you dont have fruits, go with pyrethrum spray everywhere, every spot of the plant and every other plant you have there
charleyhstl
Umm yeah
scriptmonkey420
No one expects the aphid inquisition.
SideOfHashBrowns
no they are snacks
PghFlip
Aphids are born pregnant. And will produce more pregnant aphids daily that will start begetting more pregnant aphids in a week.
Predator insects and physical removal via soapy water spray is your friend, if outside, treat the area
GhettoSauce
I fought off aphids indoors and won.
The entire plant needs to be dunked in soapy, tepid water for 10 mins or so. The dishsoap affects water tension on their soft bodies in a way that when they “breathe”, water comes into them, and they “drown”. Quotation marks to save time explaining the how/why.
Then you rinse the plant with tepid water. Be gentle with the soap dunk and the rinse, of course. And yeah, the roots, too. The plant will be fine.
Ideally, you replant it in fresh, sure-to-be uncontaminated soil, and in a clean/washed pot.
Doing that, I managed to spot one aphid per 3 days, on average, when inspecting my 60 plants one by one.
Aphids like to hang out on the new growth, tucked into the crevice a new leaf makes, but I see them just standing on the stem often enough.
I sprinkled DE (diatomaceous earth) with a spice shaker, tapping the side of it, so that the plants got some in those exact crevices. I stopped seeing aphids shortly after. It’s been months of deep, daily checks over 100% of my many plants, and so I can confirm that what I did worked to fully eradicate them. An aphid genocide, if you will.
radastrozombie
Just tons of ladybugs pretty much eradicated aphids from my garden
Used-Function-3889
Just do a proper soil drench once and be done with it. Or you can neem your life away and get nowhere.
KDMultipass
Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Aphids, godspeed my friend 🫡
Insecticide soap. Be sure to look everywhere tops and especially the bottoms of leaves. Isolate the plant if possible and check surrounding plants.
Aphids, multiply like crazy and stunt the growth of your plants (and can kill your plants). A very common pest. There are multiple ways to deal with ’em, the most effective, I have found is pyrethrin-based pest spray, drench all your plants with it, and make sure to also do the underside of the leaves (they like to hang out and lay eggs there) repeat after 7 days after the first treatment.
Another way to deal with them, if you want to go the organic route, is to make a mixture of two teaspoons of neem oil and two teaspoons of dish soap into 1 liter of water, shake it up, and if you see an oily film on top of the water add a bit more dish soap and shake again, put the mixture into a sprayer and spray the affected parts of the plants, but not drench the plant, since it leaves an oily residue on the plant that can affect the plant negatively.
A quick fix right now is to spray the plants with weak soapy water, but they will come back.
Or you can kick them off with a heavy spray with water.
Or my favorite squish them with your thumb.
Aphids are the worst!
Lady bugs. Prevent overcrowding. If the plant is small enough soap and water. They don’t cling very well so a stream of water will push them off.
Nope perfectly normal
If you only have few plants and they’ll go outside eventually, just take the soft brush and brush them off. Check again a few days later and brush off again. Just keep at the number control. No need to soaping, neeming or any of that crap. Aphids will be dealt with with their natural predators once you place your plants outside and it’ll be fine.
You are “Lucky” that this happend now that you dont have fruits, go with pyrethrum spray everywhere, every spot of the plant and every other plant you have there
Umm yeah
No one expects the aphid inquisition.
no they are snacks
Aphids are born pregnant. And will produce more pregnant aphids daily that will start begetting more pregnant aphids in a week.
Predator insects and physical removal via soapy water spray is your friend, if outside, treat the area
I fought off aphids indoors and won.
The entire plant needs to be dunked in soapy, tepid water for 10 mins or so. The dishsoap affects water tension on their soft bodies in a way that when they “breathe”, water comes into them, and they “drown”. Quotation marks to save time explaining the how/why.
Then you rinse the plant with tepid water. Be gentle with the soap dunk and the rinse, of course. And yeah, the roots, too. The plant will be fine.
Ideally, you replant it in fresh, sure-to-be uncontaminated soil, and in a clean/washed pot.
Doing that, I managed to spot one aphid per 3 days, on average, when inspecting my 60 plants one by one.
Aphids like to hang out on the new growth, tucked into the crevice a new leaf makes, but I see them just standing on the stem often enough.
I sprinkled DE (diatomaceous earth) with a spice shaker, tapping the side of it, so that the plants got some in those exact crevices. I stopped seeing aphids shortly after. It’s been months of deep, daily checks over 100% of my many plants, and so I can confirm that what I did worked to fully eradicate them. An aphid genocide, if you will.
Just tons of ladybugs pretty much eradicated aphids from my garden
Just do a proper soil drench once and be done with it. Or you can neem your life away and get nowhere.
Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Blast them off with a hose or squash them