Mint is the hardiest most invasivest shit ever and like I cannot stress enough how quickly and vigorously it grows. If you ever need mint just like root a cutting and plant it and give it some fertilizer like once a week and you’ll have more mint than anybody could ever need for their entire lifetime
I transplanted a basketball sized mint plant into a bigger pot two weeks ago and it’s quintupled in size with leaves the size of my hand. I literally do not know what to do with it. I offered like a pound of it to my weed dealer and you know what he said? nah he’s trying to kill the shit growing around his house
You could maybe try immersing the plants with water for a few hours so the aphids die or leave and then try to prevent them from coming back with neem oil or pyrethrins if you’re not afraid of pesticides (i figure there’s so many carcinogens everywhere else why not spray a little poison on the food but my mint has basically 0 bugs on it, just all up in the soil)
I have some spinosad but it doesn’t really work on aphids, gonna have to get some neem concentrate soon and just spray them off or something regularly for now. I just don’t understand why they like the mint so much specifically, enough to get up to my high as hell balcony
You could maybe try immersing the plants with water for a few hours so the aphids die or leave and then try to prevent them from coming back with neem oil or pyrethrins if you’re not afraid of pesticides (i figure there’s so many carcinogens everywhere else why not spray a little poison on the food
but my mint has basically 0 bugs on it, just all up in the soil)
I have some spinosad but it doesn’t really work on aphids, gonna have to get some neem concentrate soon and just spray them off or something regularly for now. I just don’t understand why they like the mint so much specifically, enough to get up to my high as hell balcony