The Final Cut

These are the final cut for the peppers that are getting overwintered.  The Project Reaper, the Zombie Reaper, and the best producing/best shaped backup Reaper.  Oh, and the Cumari.

Update on the aphids, the sevin nuked 95% of them, but did not knock them all out even after repeated sprayings.  So, I took more drastic measures and pruned the growth buds off the Project and Zombie Reapers to get rid of most of the ones that were left and then hit everything with a good coat of neem oil.

For those not familiar with neem oil, its not actually an insecticide like the sevin, it won't kill anything right away.  Instead what it does is mess with neural pathways and causes long term damage to soft bodied insects (like mites and aphids) that stop them from growing and reproducing.  It'll take days or even a couple weeks, but it'll get the job done.

Basically, nuked most of the little buggers with sevin, pruned off their favorite living spaces, and then covered everything in bug birth defect spray.  But, after all of that, I shouldn't have to worry about aphids or mites for the rest of the winter.  Or if I do, I had better learn to live with my new aphid overlords, because they are clearly immortal highlanders who will come at me in the night with their wee little swords to extract revenge on their fallen brethren.