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  Adelaide here I grow completely organically, no insect control, no products at all

Hey mate, Try spraying the neem daily. It works by disrupting the reproductive cycle so daily spraying for a month will kill them off entirely. 

Yeah I think that a caterpillar got in there haha, they will go away when it starts getting very hot. Doesn't seem to hurt the plant  

Terrible at logging every year, lets see if I have better consistency this time!   I have a new son, born in January this year. So I only had time to grow one pepper bought from my local bunnings - a habenero. It's been in the pot about 2 weeks now.    This pot is now in it's 4th consecutive...

  Great! I'll post some updates today. It's the complete opposite of "lanky"

vermicompost for the win

  Cheaper than the extra water use by not getting them

Looking good so far. Cutting the leaves in half when they get too big will make them grow smaller gradually

https://aquamasterplumbing.com/2015/01/26/everything-you-need-to-know-about-weeping-tile/   You put them underground in a closed loop system and send waste water / any water down them. They then will fill up and leak out into the water underground where it will not evaporate. It's the most...

What is the humidity like? If it's a bit dry then you can give them a mist in the morning and evening

  It's not redundant because worms and bsf process different materials at different rates. Bsf are very inefficient when it comes to getting nutrients out of organic material because they are using many of the nutrients for themselves. They do well at processing food waste and wet waste.  The...

Use weeping tiles dug underground and send your grey water down them

You said you'd be "wasting the benefits" which is completely false

Red worms digest the more recalcitrant cellulosic materials, something that larvae cannot do. To recover all available nutrients, processing through composting worms is required. Worm castings increase the nutrient availability of compost 3 fold

If you build it, they will come

"Do nuttin" is doing his favourite thing... nothing! The weather is starting to pick up now. It has a few sets of leaves. Days are now as long as the nights which is usually when things start doing well here in Adelaide  

BSF larvae are very inefficient composters. This makes them great for things like food waste that would pile up really quickly but personally looking at that compost pile I would be introducing worms instead of BSF larvae and I would be putting the finished BSF larvae compost onto that pile also

  Let it dry out, you could also feed it through a worm bin. I'd let it cure for a little while, just keep it moist. If you're using it outdoors then it will definitely be fine to use by spring

Still just opening it's first set of leaves. Growth normally kicks off when the days are the same length as the nights, around 20th September