Still pretty good.

Not so happy.

So VERY unhappy.

Good to see an update.

They still look decent to me considering their circumstances, the stragglers will def catch up. Peppers are tougher than other vegetable plants, and can almost always be salvaged & nursed back to health. The only thing i would do in the near term is keep the leaves dry to prevent bacterial infections and water the plants only as needed.

I still think it looks like a happy environment for them, they get the nice balcony view and everything! Your neighbors will see the ripe pods and covet them from afar :-)

Good luck and happy growing in the meantime,

- Steve

if i were you still being this early in the season i would pinch off the flower buds so your plants will focus all energy to growing larger and fill in more foliage ....... end result will be very happy plants with a larger harvest ....

The aphids have arrived. I sprayed with soap yesterday morning and have gotten up the nerve to squish. Gives me the heebie jeebies but also helped with bad day frustration. Just squished all I could find. Should I wait a few days before spraying?

wait before spraying again.

What I usually do is blast them with a water nozzle a couple mornings in a row to disrupt the life cycle. Then I come back with the soap a couple days later at dusk. Same thing about a week later and then I move on to a 2 week cycle if I see more.

Nice to see them sorta rebounding.

Kevin

Nice to see someone else use the squish by hand method. I have issues with aphids every spring and I squish by hand. My theory is enough aphid guts under the leaves must have some pheromone that signals others to stay away from the death and destruction of previous family. Usually after a week or two after squishing them, nothing for a few months and I may get a stray or two which get gobbled up by ladybugs since by that time it's warm enough for them. Then nothing at all the rest of the summer. I ran into tomato horn worms but the wasps got them.

Mark

Squishing may be the best way. Had to move everything close to the wall because of the impending acopocolapse. All have survived and some look much better. Pics tomorrow.