Re: insect problem

Auralie,
We've grown that Curry Plant here before, but had no problems with it.
Sorry, I can't help more.  I know you don't like to use  chemicals, but when
you are applying something to just a single plant, especially this one, I
don't think you really have much to worry about, if any worry at all.
Still, I agree that, if there is enough substance to the plant, the first
choice of action is just to remove them as you have.

Kitty
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From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject: [CHAT] insect problem


> From the Teatown Nature Center's plant sale this spring my DH brought me a
> nice little plant that had caught his eye - the tag said "Curry Plant" and
in
> fine
> print Helichrysum angustifolium.  I potted it up in a nice blue pot and it
> began
> to grow rapidly into  pretty accent in my container garden.  Then about a
week
> ago I noticed that the tips seemed to be wilted.  On looking closer I
found
> that
> each growing tip, of which there were many, seemed to be wrapped in a web.
> Further inspection found half-inch-long black worms inside the webs.  The
> foliage did not appear eaten - just wrapped in webs.  I carefully cut out
> every
> one I could find and isolated the plant in a shady place, gave it some
> fertilizer
> and hoped for the best.  Within a couple of days it was putting out new
growth
> and again looking good.  Then another couple of days the webs appeared
> again.  Same routine.  This morning I found another web in the plant - but
> so far only one.  Nothing like this has appeared on any other plant in a
> rather large massed planting.  Slugs are doing bad things, and raccoons,
> but nothing like these worm webs.  I don't like to use any insecticide
> because of the large number of birds and chipmunks, to say nothing of
> my cats, that frequent the area.  Do any of you knowledgable people know
> what this is?  Is it something specific to Helichrysum?  Other plants from

> the same plant sale show no signs of this.  I hate to just throw the plant
> out, but maybe I should cut my losses before it spreads to other plants...
> Auralie
>
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