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Well - since my thrip vac didn't work too well, in fact didn't work at all, and I don't like the idea of spraying plants, I have another trick up my sleeve.    Meet my mite army!      (I did take both those pics with my macro lens...sadly no fight image yet!)     The sachets are "amblyline...

Yeah I'm starting one...   No Idea where to start, so much pressure, so, mightaswell start with a funny photo, I like this...     Anything to encourage them to stick around! :)     Growing this year - a long list, will take me a long while to complete:   The reliable ones: Super Chilli - my fav...

Finding these ones under the plant pots so largely in the soil, but they're too fast, all I can get is a microscope photo of a squished one!      edit - found another!      To put a scale on them, they're about 1.5mm and they run quite fast. And most certainly aren't thrips today, although...

Yeah I should patent that name.    Basic idea is that any bugs loose enough to be able to be "tapped" off a plant are loose enough to be vacuumed off. I always vacuum up spiders (shame on me) so I'm no stranger to the concept. If it works on thrips, it might work well on whitefly, aphids....  ...

during routine inspection yesterday I noticed one plant had no more than maybe five thrips on it. Already! They don't hang about do they?   I've squashed them all by hand - a rather satisfying experience - quarantined it, had a very good look at all my other seedlings/young plants and can't see...

Hey guys, first flower this year from an overwintered scotch bonnet. But it looks like it's already got some fruit thing going on even though it literally only opened this morning.    Do they ever pollenate themselves and set fruit before they open? Or is it just an oddly large mutant base of...