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 perfect. exactly what needs to be done.

  Yes the fruit will be ok to eat still, and you should definitely isolate affected plants from the others. obviously it wont produce properly with mites but existing fruit should be ok to eat. It would pay to spray all the plants though even if they are not showing any symptoms, to be on the...

  Sorry do you mean do the mites live in the soil? The mites do not live in the soil if that's what your asking. Both container plants and plants in ground can get them. Its just such a highly contagious pest so you don't want to risk spreading it around the property which is why you need to be...

  Yep you need to wait to see the new growth. although it should be evident fairly quickly if the nodes are starting to sprout green non crispy growth, and not just turn brown and die.     IMO its best to cut the plant back heavily before spraying. Remove all affected growth and destroy it. It...

  yep the image of what mrwrx posted is exactly what I have used in the past. Available from bunnings in NZ, so I assume available from bunnings in Aus as well. mix it strong 

  Trim off all the crappy growth then begin your watching period again. It sucks making your plant smaller and chopping off lots of nodes and potential peppers, but sometimes you need to take a step backwards before you can go forwards. You will be there forever trying to watch old distorted...

  I do not believe you will get anywhere with neem as its contact only, and no way are you going to get every single mite with neem unless you dunk the plant. They are relentless.. By all means give it a try but im confident you will only slightly delay them with neem. infact you will get...

^ yep that is mites. If the leaf / new growth damage wasnt enough, then the slightly brown discoloration in these latest pics is also a tell tale giveaway for broad mites. I know it well.    I would cut off all the affected growth before spraying with lime sulphur or wettable sulphur. I have no...

I agree with all those who suggested it may be mites.

thank you good sir. :) Iv got 5 rat traps consisting of 3 different types and have not had much luck with any those. They have been set off a few times but iv only caught one with the traps..they seem to be too smart for traps. Most of the time they just go untouched.    I got a poison bait...

I think you have got some good advise so far :)   Yea that plant does not look ideal. I would cut off the dying part an inch or two below where its already turned colour. I would then clean all the crap off it...and apply some form of insecticide. Whatever floats your boat in terms of...

  You could do the submerge thing if you wanted. Your plants will come out looking like crap though and it would take quite a lot of concentrate to make a containers worth large enough to dunk a sizable plant in. You need to dilute it anyway, submerge or not.   Lime sulphur is exactly what its...

I know you didnt ask me. But lime sulphur (liquid) is what you need. 

looking good pal :)

  Thanks :) Yep, well im in Auckland. Its not dense or a concrete jungle where I am though. Have also never had to worry about rats before..I think it was my compost pile that attracted them in the first place. I used to throw all my vege scraps on the top of it. Now I only compost with grass...

So iv been battling rats since my last post..always seem to be battling something with this pepper growing..other years its been broad mites, or psyllids..this year its damned rats lol.   Anyway, iv deployed some poison which they have been eating..so hopefully the numbers are getting thinned...

^ I dont agree that that is what the OP has. Yours may well be down to cold nights etc, but the curley new growth in the OP's first pics is not the same as your pics, and the bacterial spot in the last pic is another issue and more similar to your plants.   Im not sure how you can say with...

  Ermm im confused. What did you cure by watering it? its thirst?  Obviously there was no real issue if all you had to do was water it...   What am I missing?

good work, nice shade of green :)

I think its just the species. I find brainstrain's for example have especially large leaves compared to most other supers.