Complete noob at trying DWC and decided to stick this plant into a bucket instead of overwintering like the rest. I tried to get as much old soil washed out beforehand but after 4 weeks these guys are showing up. Tried taking it outside and hitting it with a spray hose and sprinkling some DE around it. Just figured I’d ask what’s the best direction from here and if I should just start from scratch with a purely indoor plant or if there’s a way to keep it going? I guess I could just prune it again and try putting it into dormancy. I’ve got a handful of other new starts and don’t want it to spread. As you can tell, trying to get by without buying a tent.
by Overall_Mammoth6849
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This is why I overwinter. Plants are fine all summer outside, but one the temps drop and I bring them in for a month to finish ripening, they are infested with aphids by the end of the month. I cut them and let them sit till spring, get fresh soil clean the post and start fresh.
Ya, food and herbs are hard to keep inside without pests. I’ve give up entirely.
Absolutely can’t bring things inside from outside. It needs to be sprouted inside and kept inside.
Over wintering in a garage is fine because you can just bring them out and spray them off a few times until spring.
Look up Dead Bug Brew spray it kills most bugs
I have a glass house and sometimes it gets infested. I’ve tried just about everything to get rid of them and only found one thing that works, and fortunately it’s simple and free! Literally all I do is take them outside, blast them with the hose to knock all the aphids off then leave them outside for another day or so (hose only doesn’t always get them 100% but leaving them outside seems to let the natural predators to finish them off) and then put them back.
I also got whitefly on my lemon tree and tried all manner of pesticides on that too, but in the end the hose solved the problem.
Don’t know if this will work for everyone but I’ve been doing it for years and it seems to work for me.
I use Trifecta Crop Control before I bring mine in, and so far, about a month and a half in, no problems.
Get to wiping. It’s a small plant. Shouldn’t take you much time to eliminate them by hand.
I spray 3x a week for 2 weeks before bringing them in, then 3x a week every week once they’re in for about a month. Dr Earth Final Stop and Silica Blast at 60mL/5mL per us gallon and if there’s anything that gets through, I’ll switch to insecticidal super soap and silca + neem and if THAT doesn’t do it, I’ll hit it with sulfur and pyrethrins. 9/10, the 1st mix does the trick.
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Bringing in plants that have been outside all season is a pain if you bring in pests with them, otherwise it’s a nice way to pick my favorite pepper plants and keep them going through the winter.
Do the adults fly? Yellow sticky traps will help
Squish em manually!
Follow up with sprays of insecticidal soap of potassium salts, this is a fairly benign spray. It can be a little irritating if you spray heavily in an indoor area with no ventilation. Spraying without a tent to contain it all is also a pain. A second type of spray to alternate between may be a good idea, though I’ve never gotten burns on mature plants from insecticidal soaps. The one thing you dont want, however, is for it to drip into your reservoir.
Green lacewing larvae will be a good natural predator to introduce, but the adults will die off quick or fly off, so its not a great permanent solution. The larvae are partially susceptible to sprays, however.
It may be straight up easier just to cull these and clean your space. Whenever I get aphids on my cannabis, I never truly get rid of them – best I can do is keep the population in check.
A little been oil spray should solve your problem
Get a ton of lady bugs. They like aphids
Buy some green lacewing larva quick. This is the only thing that ever cleared them out for me.
This year I cut off all the leaves and most of the branches, and cleaned the roots under the tap then repotted in fresh clean potting soil. So far no bugs and only one of the six plants I brought in have died. Last year I didn’t change the soil and got bugs, and so I kept cutting any leaves that grew and the plants all died. I could not end the infestation with any method I tried last year.
I stopped bringing them in every year because of this. Outside there are several predators that eat aphids. Wind and rain also help. Indoors, they go nuts and will destroy your plants. They will also find their way to other plants. You can drench the plant (often) in a sink or tub or something and wash them off, but you’ll never get them all. Neem oil doesn’t work (well). Soap doesn’t work well. Hydrogen peroxide doesn’t work well. The only thing I’ve found that gets rid of these little fuckers is Azamax. But to me, it’s just not worth it. Just propagate seeds in the winter and move them outside in the summer, harvest, let them die and repeat.
If you really want to bring them in over winter, you have to trim them back, wash the hell out of them, remove ALL the soil and wash the roots, and replant in clean soil – plus treat them with something like Azamax.
Also, if you have aphids on a plant from outside when you plant new seedlings, they’ll get those too.
Start over –
This is why people remove all leaves when they bring plants inside. Changing the soil isn’t enough. Aphids hide under leaves and they have spread to all nearby plants already!
Get insecticidal soap and spray everything every few days. Remove all leaves for better results. The plants will grow back if in the right environment. Good luck.
If you decide to start over with seeds, get rid of all plants and wait a few weeks first.