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I'm pretty sure those are Mealybug Destroyers. 1st and 4th images are pupas, 2nd and 3rd are larvae. They are a ladybird species and are beneficial!

On one of the next few days I'll be transplanting my plants to their final pots (~5gal). It seems that I'm lacking some perlite, but the only store that's near me doesn't carry it. They have something called ceramsite, which I'm assuming is the same thing as LECA/hydroton. I was thinking of...

  It should be coarse sand. The idea is it should loosen and aerate the medium, and give better drainage. Fine sand will do the opposite. Sand in general doesn't retain water and nutrients well, though, so perlite would be preferred, as mentioned.

@solid7 Thanks for that anecdote! Hope you don't mind if I use it in the future. :P I wonder if there's some causality still, perhaps with water being a desirable nesting place for all sorts of nasties, with sunlight having an effect on the process. I'll look into it more when time allows.   By...

  I've seen such damage contributed to sunburn multiple times. I've also read that the water on leaves causing sunburn is a myth, but didn't research it too much. Would you say this holds for LED as well? Likely, but I've seen some senior members of this forum claim it's true. I'd like to hear...

Looks a lot like what my plants had a few weeks ago. Their indoor conditions were sub-optimal and hardening-off was rushed. Seemed to affect some varieties more than others. Didn't notice any pest and the problem resolved itself not long after (new growth, old leaves dropped).   Also, your plant...

Definitely not fungus gnats. I'm pretty sure they're aphids, and from a quick google search, I'd guess they're cowpea aphids. Though interestingly, it seems the roses are, at least predominantly, covered with greenflies.

Checked again, found a few more adults and a couple nymphs. Also found the likeliest culprit. There was an aphid-infested old rose in the corner of the terrace, which I've moved to the balcony on the other side of the flat. A friend suggested I should spray the rose with a garlic spray. Would...

So today I was doing my morning check on the plants and noticed some small winged creatures black in color. I assume they were aphids. Killed 1-3 per plant. I only saw mature, winged ones. I live nearly at the top of my building, some 30 meters up from the ground level. I've quickly...

  So it's best to avoid midday sun? That was mostly what my original question was about, but perhaps I've phrased it poorly. Pretty much the only thing I can do is put it in complete shadow around those hours, everything else would be too much of a hassle for my circumstances. So is no direct...

Quick question. Temperatures here usually top around 30°C (85°F) at this time of year. I can place my pepper plants so that they get full sun from 6:30 AM to 5:00 PM (approximating, might be less than this). So should I? Are there things to worry about, like UV and whatnot? Cheers.

Thank you The_NorthEast_ChileMan! Very informative. I might play around with pot size, if I allocate enough time for it. By the way, I thought the green container read "Monsanto" at first glance :D Cheers

Read that as "plants" at first glance :D   They do look alike. These were labeled "Habanero", but it's probably safe to say they're not. These are just bonus plants on my grow list, so I don't mind them being whatever they want to be, as long as they don't taste like pants. Would you say there'd...

OK, so it's probably a C. annuum? Thank you, appreciated. Do they need 5 gallon containers as well? Or should I ask this in the growing sub-forum?

First two have multiple fruits on top as well, it just doesn't show very well on the picture. They are definitely the same thing. They all came from a single chili pod I was given 5 years ago.

This is one of the varieties I'm growing this year. All three plants below are of the same variety. I'm not sure what they are, but they look like a mild kind. I'm late on transplanting them, and didn't top them before or after they started flowering, so now they're fruiting. I'm mostly...

Came across this discussion earlier today: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5116278/give-up-planting-peppers-in-ground (Pardon for cross-posting)   Ground-growing got virtually no love. I'm a first-time grower and was thinking of growing both in pots and in ground this year. Most plants would...

This guy shows a homemade fertilizer recipe:Says it's good for leafy, flowering and fruiting plants.   Is this actually viable? I'd assume there would be a danger of fungal infection. Also, not sure how readily available the nutrients would be, and if there's a high chance of burn or...

Greetings, lovely people. I've "sown" Habaneros some 7 weeks ago. Now the seedlings are about 10cm or 4" tall, but the tops are already showing bundles of flower buds. I've read a lot of back-and-forth on pruning, pinching flowers, etc. so I'm wondering what your take on this is. Should I pinch...