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Day 32: We have a flower! My good Thai Chili gives me the first bloom of my 9 plants. The flower seems to be pointing downward right now so I'll wait to take a picture until it's upright.

Ah, you have a proper house then! I only have a decently-sized apartment (with similar problems - concrete foundation so heat dissipates very quickly). At the moment nowhere to set up an indoor grow op. Since I'm growing from seedlings I should probably expect a somewhat low yield, but I'm not...

Another Tokyoite? Welcome! There's also georgej who lives down in Kanagawa so we have ourselves quite a group going.   Did you start from seed or seedlings? And yeah, I'm not sure if the rainy season has officially been declared 'over' in Kanto but starting on Monday/Tuesday it's going to be...

Day 29: With most of the plants having stretched their legs, a few are starting to stretch their arms and develop branches. I eventually decided to pinch off the flowerbuds on Thai Chili #2, and it seems to be sprouting a lot of leaves in new places since then. In general most of the plants are...

Day 22: I've now had these seedlings for about three weeks and they're not dead yet. Not bad!   Today is the first full day of sun we've had in a few days so all the plants are out in the light. All 9 have been fertilized with Hyponex liquid fertilizer on georgej's recommendation; he suggested...

Damn, I pulled all my plants under the awning to avoid the rain that's going to hit us for the next 2-3 days but should I just go ahead and bring them inside like you did?   I'm seeing max winds of 9 miles/hour (14 km/hour) in Tokyo on my weather app so maybe things are just rougher down in...

Day 16: After what felt like 40 days and nights, we've actually had a good amount of sun the last couple days. Last night and this morning there was a lot of rain scheduled so I brought all the plants far under the awning, but this afternoon we set them back out to get some sun.     The...

  I think you're right. My plants have looked pretty healthy (little to no drooping) but I feel like new growth has slowed down a bit. Can't wait for these clouds to clear up.

Day 13: The rainy season has hit Tokyo and we've not seen the sun since around Monday or Tuesday. All of my plants have been moved under the awning of our patio, which mostly shields them from direct rain. They've still gotten a fair amount of water from wind and backsplashes and I've rotated...

Thanks all, crushed all the aphids I could find and I'm going to check in a few minutes to see if any have returned.     Just found spray bottles on Amazon. There's also a cake version that I could theoretically break up and mix with soil but is that advisable after I've already potted them...

  Yeah, already crushed everything I could find. I sent an email to the farm I got the seedlings from asking for recommendations on pesticides, waiting for a response.

I posted pics to this thread, yoru thoughts? They did look pretty aphid-like.

(cross-posting from my glog, sorry if this is against the rules but I'm impatient and anxious)     Discovered the following thos morning while bringing my plants under the awning before today's rain.   These green eggs (?):         And these green bugs (might be the eggs too, but this one...

After a couple days of Leaving My Goddamned Plants alone, I went to bring them under the awning before this afternoon's/evening's rains. And what did I find?   BUGS :shocked: :cry:   These green eggs (?):         And these green bugs (might be the eggs too, but this one definitely has legs):  ...

Hey George, I've just found several bugs/eggs on the underside of my plants as well. Saw what I thought might be an aphid and a cluster of eggs (scratched them off because I panicked) and also several 'white' eggs and what looked like a longer bug with wings that I've seen elsewhere on this...