[arvin555]

An update on my dish washing soap experiment:

1. Remember I used them on flower stalk so not really dangerous for rest of plant, most aphids died, only few left which was easy to pick off.

2. Saw my Capensis with some aphids on the leaves, I put 3 whole plants with pot and everything in very deep water container and dunk the whole pot in, so the plant is underwater, left for 30 minutes. Can't find any trace of aphids anymore.

3. Used soap suds on leaves of Chili pepper plant with mealybugs under leaves, as of now can't be sure but I think did quite a lot of good.

My conclusion, if you are comfortable dunking whole plant under water, try this technique, I actually think this is more gentle to plant than soap, but that is just me.

TTFN
Arvin