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Gardening

dixiegrrrrl

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3. You could just leave it as a sacrificial plant for hornworms.

Reply to shanti (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 12:50 PM

Jun 2015

I use some plants for butterfly/moth nurseries, and the hornworm is the caterpillar of the Hummingbird moth ( aka "hawk moth or "sphinx" moth) a large moth resembling a humminbird which pollinates plants in late evening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_quinquemaculata

I set those plants on the other side of the ones I want to eat from.

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Tomato plant not flowering [View all] shanti Jun 2015 OP

Might be wise to read up on Mr. Stripey and see if he is a late bloomer. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #1

i did a search for mr. stripey shanti Jun 2015 #2

You could just leave it as a sacrificial plant for hornworms. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #3