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Chilli pepper leaves start to curl

Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
in Problem solving
Hello Chilli pepper experts

I asked in the garden centre yesterday, but they couldn't tell what makes the leaves of the chilli looking like this:


What I might have to mention is that the chillies have had green vine lice from the beginning and I try to catch as many as possible.
I thought I might have to take them out of the soil completely and replant them in new tomato plant soil.

Many thanks in advance.

I ♥ my garden.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’ve never heard of Green Vine Lice, but that sort of leaf curling is often the result of aphids sucking the sap.

    I wash them off by gently immersing the foliage upside down in a weak sudsy solution of washing up liquid in cool water. Spread your fingers over the top of the pot to stop the compost falling out. 
    Leave the plant to drain. 
    Repeat as necessary. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    @Dovefromabove
    "aphids" is what I was looking for. I'm German and didn't know the English word for what we call "Blattläuse". I checked with the online dictionary and decided for the wrong word out of 4 possibilities.
    Yes, I have exactly these aphids.
    I will do it today what you said.
    Thumbs up!

    Many thanks.






    I ♥ my garden.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Great ... we got there! 
    The green aphids are often called ‘greenfly’ here, and of course there are the black ones that go on bean plants and they’re ‘black fly’.  
    Glad to help 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    Many thanks, .... starting now to do what you said ... :smile:

    I ♥ my garden.

  • wigeonwigeon Posts: 36
    good morning all. could i get some advice on sowing chilli seed in pots in the house best month to sow e.t.c. regards peter
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hi @peter419 :D  loads of information here https://www.gardenersworld.com/search/?q=how+to+grow+chillies

    I'm sowing mine next month when I sow the tomatoes. I have a windowsill propagator. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wigeonwigeon Posts: 36
    good morning dovefromabove .thank you for reply i will check it out thanks again peter.
  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    @Dovefromabove
    I had seen that some of the eggs were in the soil and I did everything what you said. They look currently like , “this is too much, I give up”. 
    Monty sow in the latest GE chilli, too. I thought it should be January. Good to know that I can start again if my ones don’t recover. 

    I ♥ my garden.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    They'll perk up as the water drains off them.

    Shouldn't be any aphid eggs in the soil ... aphids give birth to live young ... without the aid of a partner ... parthenogenesis ... they're born pregnant 😱

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    @Dovefromabove
    I meant these white little ones (sorry I have no idea how to describe it), but good news, they start to recover 😔

    I ♥ my garden.

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