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Horn worm
- Thread starter Smitty
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Dammit!
I thought she was supposed to watch the plants!?
You will hopefully be Ok, but do you have any pics? Depends on just how much is gone.
I thought she was supposed to watch the plants!?
You will hopefully be Ok, but do you have any pics? Depends on just how much is gone.
It will grow back. You will probably get new growth very fast! Watch n see!
You two have had bad luck letting the women around your plants.
After reading your posts, that wont be happening around here.
After reading your posts, that wont be happening around here.
Yah she was but shes one of those put gas in a car and go kinda girls ...lol I had 3 of them a while back and now that I think if it I was warned that there may be others but yeh ill post some pics in a minute let me get out there man I bummed?PepperDaddler said:
This is whats left moruga in the far back and the Trinidad scorpion
And yellow brain strain up front and wht bullwt in the back
Damn! They worked you over! New growth will pop out of those nodes. Its just gonna set em back a bit.
Those were some happy worms while you were gone. They had a party.
You should get new grown from some or all the nodes left. Your plants just look like over-winters now 
We have hornwoms galore out here and I pick little ones off my plants 3 days out of ever 6.
I went away for a week on business when all my seedlings were just into their second set of leaves and asked my Wife to look after them. Came back and 40% of them were dead. It was hard to know what to say at the time.
We have hornwoms galore out here and I pick little ones off my plants 3 days out of ever 6.
I went away for a week on business when all my seedlings were just into their second set of leaves and asked my Wife to look after them. Came back and 40% of them were dead. It was hard to know what to say at the time.
Bummer, dude. 
Hope they bounce back for you.
Hope they bounce back for you.
cone9
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Nigel said:You should get new grown from some or all the nodes left. Your plants just look like over-winters now
We have hornwoms galore out here and I pick little ones off my plants 3 days out of ever 6.
I went away for a week on business when all my seedlings were just into their second set of leaves and asked my Wife to look after them. Came back and 40% of them were dead. It was hard to know what to say at the time.
She probably got into your superhot stash and was stoned on endorphins all week!
cone9
eXtreme
I found a hornworm on one of my tomato plants two years ago. I had never seen them before and had to look it up to ID it. It was dispatched and then I found another on the same plant the next day. My 19 yo daughter was fascinated with it so we put it in a Tupperware container and fed it tomato leaves thinking we might be able to watch it undergo metamorphosis.
There is a species of parasitic wasp that lays it eggs on hornworms. A few days into captivity the worm was suddenly covered with several dozen 1/4" long wasp larva. It was quite interesting to see. The worm, though lethargic by this point, was released into some weeds to allow the wasps to mature and hopefully kill many more hornworms.
There is a species of parasitic wasp that lays it eggs on hornworms. A few days into captivity the worm was suddenly covered with several dozen 1/4" long wasp larva. It was quite interesting to see. The worm, though lethargic by this point, was released into some weeds to allow the wasps to mature and hopefully kill many more hornworms.
It appears I got the jump on my first hornworm of the season; I went to check the ripening pods on the big Fatalii plant, and there on a leaf was one of those distinctive square poops. So I did a close inspection and found the little bastidge hiding on a low stem, then launched it into the middle distance where the nearest plants are oleanders. (Maybe they kill it, maybe it kills them, and either way I come out ahead.)
As far as I could tell there was just the one, and it hadn't done anything more than chomp a couple of leaves. I'm hoping this is a good omen; last year the hornworms got in one good night's work before I caught them, and it basically cost me my entire Fatalii crop for the year (the plant did come back, but too late for the new set of pods to ripen).
I feel like vegetative growth bounces back pretty quickly from hornworm damage, but a long-season plant---which most of those you listed are, right?---is going to take a while to develop mature pods again. At least you do have a very long growing season out there, and since the hornworms don't mess with the roots, the plants should have a good foundation to rebuild from.
-NT
As far as I could tell there was just the one, and it hadn't done anything more than chomp a couple of leaves. I'm hoping this is a good omen; last year the hornworms got in one good night's work before I caught them, and it basically cost me my entire Fatalii crop for the year (the plant did come back, but too late for the new set of pods to ripen).
I feel like vegetative growth bounces back pretty quickly from hornworm damage, but a long-season plant---which most of those you listed are, right?---is going to take a while to develop mature pods again. At least you do have a very long growing season out there, and since the hornworms don't mess with the roots, the plants should have a good foundation to rebuild from.
-NT
I found another of these bastards this morning. 
Sliced it in half.
Sliced it in half.
