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Are we tired of Firefly Petunias yet? I'm not. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

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[-] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Mine are going like gangbusters but there’s something eating the blooms now. I have little bites taken out of most of the flowers.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Mine is growing so fast that you can actually watch the blooms expanding and even the leaves moving in the time lapse video of this 4 minute exposure.

[-] ffolkes@fanexus.com 3 points 5 months ago

Sounds like you have caterpillars! Little green caterpillars decimated my petunias one year before I realized what was going on. They eat holes in the flowers, bigger and bigger, and then move on to the buds, eventually eating everything. The best thing to eradicate them is something called "Bt", and it works fantastically well. It's a spray you can find at garden stores that contains Bacillus Thuringiensis. You can read more about it, but it is 100% effective against caterpillars.

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