Bugs also come inside in the soil.

Good luck with this one. I moved a red savina and a scotch bonnet inside last year in 14 gallon containers. I treated each with neem oil. A month later I had major amounts of thrips, whiteflies, and esp. aphids. I caught dozens of lady bugs on warm days and put them on my plants, but the bugs eventually won. On a couple of 70 degree days in the winter, I would drag the plants on the deck, and spray the plant from top to bottom and strip all the bugs off. Retreated with neem oil. The plants barely made it, and seemed succeptable to everything this year. Good luck. TiMo

I over winter some plants every year and agree with those above that you will bring in bugs no matter what you do. I buy ladtbugs in mid winter and they do a good job of controlling the aphids which tend to be my main problem.

I bring in plants to finsish ripening pods and some of those get chucked when I harvest the pods but the plants I want to keep get pruned pretty severely and this also helps reduce the pest population.