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Ok I've figured out that it isn't a deficiency, it's White Fly damage!
On the underside of the less affected leaves are tiny white eggs, they cant be any more than 0.1mm across, I could only just see them with the naked eye, but the phone camera makes them a bit easier to see:



I might have to arm myself with the vacuum cleaner and thin them out a bit whilst waiting for the Lacewings to arrive.

A White Fly come to check out the transpiration action on the new leaves on the blueberries I recently put into the AP

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I've just uprooted my Blueberry to the AP...
I am hoping that it does better...

I am gathering courage to attack it and thin it out a bit... ie.. it's a bit like a rat's nest..
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I would have thought that was THRIP..
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Nope, they look nothing like thrips, see the pic of one on the blueberry above... and I'll grab a proper macro photo today

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One of my issues , is fertilisation..

Being mostly enclosed, it is "Harder" for the normal fertilisers to gain access.. So I assume that if you have effectively sealed the GH, then do you have to hand fertilise fruiting plants..

It's most therapeutic, but so tedious..

and I agree the one on the BlueBerry is a white fly, but others look nothing like that, unless they are larval..
GG, I'm just beginning with this more serious interest in growing stuff..
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They are definitely all White Fly, in various stages of egg - larvae - nymphs - adults. The Peruvian Ground Apple leaf they are on is very large, so the flies are a bit harder to make out in any detail on the less close-up view. The chives under the ground apple are covered in honeydew from the White Fly, as are some tomato leaves.

I think there are already some Encarsia formosa wasps active in there as some of the nymphs have turned black, but clearly not in sufficient numbers for good control.



The greenhouse isn't very well sealed, so plenty of bugs still do get in, as do some small birds. However, I do manually fertilise the strawberries, and occasionally some tomotoes, but they are mostly fertilised by bugs.

Thrip are actually not what I was thinking of.. I was thinking that THRIP were a indistinct fuzzy ant like critter.. like those on the green pepper.

whereas these are Thrip..


http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7429.html

Such critters are such a pain..

but I still wonder if the above critters on the pepper is different to White Fly, which the other photos seem to be..
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They are

larval stage aphids

I rescued a Jacky dragon from the FT the other day, it swam onto my hand and stayed there for ages as it warmed up. It didn't want to let go either, every time I tried to let it go, it climbed back on for some more warmth! I could even put it to sleep by stroking its head and neck



I finally managed to get some decent video of the Murray Cod feeding, in slow motion on the phone cam @1/4 speed, so you can see them reasonably well, small and larger versions, the original is a bit too huge to post.

At the top of the page here: http://gunagulla.com/

Ooh that's a pretty lizard, so cool it stayed with you for as long as it did. I was about to say how the cod seemed to be much more leisurely feeders until I read that the video was in slow motion, lol. I love watching fish feed, it's so cool. Actually now I think about it I just like watching fish swim around too.

The tomatoes are coming on thick and fast now, here's a lovely bunch

Now they do look good,the whole plant looks a picture of vitality........

Some of the tomatoes ripening in the kitchen - I'll have to start making sauce and drying them soon, before the kitchen becomes swamped with them

Nice haul Gordon - I think you'll maybe hit the swamped stage tomorrow