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How MSE is your chilli plant?
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Fine, I'm persuaded to ditch it now.Living_proof wrote: »V4M I had whitefly last year for the first time, on my kale on the lottie. I sprayed with water as best I could but the little beast persisted and when I threw the remaining plants and stalks out last week they were still totally infested. As we can't now have fires and have nowhere to put rubbish on the site I had to take them in bags to the local tip and the car is still full of the little beasts. I couldn't compost them as (a) they were too thick to chop up and (b) the ones I did compost back in October have infested the compost heap now. So no amount of cold weather seems to affect them. The plan is now to suspend some moth balls over the heap and hope that does the trick! As you won't be harvesting anything off your plants for several months I would invest in a generic spray if the water and wup liquid doesn't work, as they are so persistent.Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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What? Ditch your Chilli?VfM4meplse wrote: »Fine, I'm persuaded to ditch it now.
Livingproof had an entirely different whitefly. Yours will be killed by Provado Ultimate if gentler treatment doesn't work.
Having said that, if you wanted to start a new plant from seed, now's the time0
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