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A few years ago my husband told me about a program he had seen on TV. The man was in the Netherlands and had beautiful tomatoes. He said he vacuumed the bugs off his tomato plants. Well, I didn't give it much thought because most vacuums I have used are to powerful and would hurt the plant. This winter I have moved several Brugmansia and Plumerias in the house and am wintering them over in the warm house under florescent lights. I have aphids and they are getting worse by the day. I remembered that I had bought a small specialty vacuum for small beads and thought what the heck. It's worth a shot. Granted you have to try and hit every leaf but I figure if I do it every other day or so for awhile I may get the bulk of them and maybe prevent a few more. All the little green buggers in picture are the aphids I got off one plant that wasn't even that badly infested. Has anyone else done something like this long term and if so what was your results. I don't use poisons, especially in the house so this was my solution.
The plumaria's have a tendency towards spider mite which I did find tonight and I vacuumed the leaves. No idea if it will help with those nasty monsters.
Any input would be great.
Thanks.
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