Thanks all! It's my first time growing anything, so given the learning curve if it hadn't been aphids, it would've been something else. Next season I'll be much more prepared; for one thing, I plan to start new seeds in January at the latest.
Funny you should mention the aphids; they really took root when I moved all my plants into my tub when I went on a week long vacation. When I came back (this isn't a joke) I thought it was pollen or something, because they were all clustered at the stems and, well, I didn't really know anything about gardening. I let them multiply for something like a week before realizing the pollen was moving, then attacked them with garlic oil and soap water, which knocked them all out over a three day period but also devastated the leaves on the more sensitive plants. For whatever reason, the scotch bonnett (sp?) and a couple others went down like...the titanic.
Right now, I'm thinking about picking up a 1000w HPS for sale on craigslist and moving the Bhuts indoors. This summer has been terrible so far; virtually no sunshine until the last couple days, and temps in the mid 50's to low 60's. Yesterday was sunny and 85, and today is starting out nice, but looks like we'll get some storms popping up later (hopefully severe—I'm a bit of a meteorology nerd). Montana is great for a lot of things, but apparently hot peppers ain't one of them.
