yes, ... I was joking, lol...
- 6 bottles of insecticidal soap, two concentrate bottles of neem oil, two treatments of dial soap, one gallon of cayenne tea and countless hours pinching leaves... 2 gallons of 1/4 cup Murphys oil soap and 2 cups rubbing alcohol.. all of these things were applied daily for over a month... surprised the plants could stand it.. --- I ordered lacewing eggs and 3,000 lady bugs - once they got in, I stopped spraying - this is one week later. . . . many dead aphids, but barely a dent since the sudden boom in population...
the sprays were holding them in check, not killing them back, but not allowing for any population booms either...
obviously wasted a lot of money trying to win back my plants, but at a certain point I just kept going out of spite.