1st grow Blackberry Kush & Daiquiri Lime

Weather is getting better, was cloudy at the beginning of the week. Found the depicted yellow aphid along with about 15 black aphids total on day 36 😠. Might have been because I put them near some trees that have the aphids, I've been more careful and have been removing a few aphids and eggs every day since. I did order Neem oil immediately, but it seems to not have much effect so far and I've also read it shouldn't be sprayed on flowers 😦 Picking them off is getting tedious. Pots have dried out a bit, I've started with light watering. Also on some mornings I find loads of ants crawling over the Blackberry, don't know what they're doing there. No aphids were around alongside them. They didn't seem to do any damage, but they make me nervous... Daiquiri Lime is still not really flowering, She did put up some pistils on the sides of the stems, so perhaps she'll begin soon. She's about 2 weeks being the Kush both in terms of flowering and size I'd say.