Green Chillis - Greenfly

[Matrix34]

Have a number of chilli plants in the conservatory which have lots of chillis aprox 2" long at present.

Noticed that some of them have fat greenfly or aphids on them.

Any suggestions on best method to remove them? The plant themselves and the fruit look healthy.

[Matrix34]

Managed to get advise from my gardening guru (MUM)

Using a cotton wool bud and some very dilute soapy water, I wet each chilli stem and fruit with the dilute soapy solution. I did this the other day and checked the plants this morning and majority of the aphids have left it alone.

I've wet the stems and fruit again this morning and a few of the undersides of some leaves which had smaller aphids on them and will see how things look tomorrow.

Will post an update later.

[golden14]

Hi,
This problem happened extensively to all (30+) of my chilli plants earlier this year, the best advice I was given on this forum was to place them outside near flower plants as other insects such as ladybirds love eating aphids and within a couple of days they will be gone. Problem is that you cannot do this all you round. The soapy water solution does work and you can wipe all leaves to do this, but it takes a lot of time and they you will end up doing this once a week as they will keep coming back.
Hope this helps you, it was advice I picked up on here, it seems far better to prevent them from the start as this would appear easier than trying to get rid of them once they appear, a lesson I have learnt for next season!