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Hungarian Hot Wax — Growing Guide, Sowing Times & Companion Plants · Garden Kinship
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Pests & beneficial insects 🐛 Prone to:
Aphids Curled leaves, sticky honeydew and ants on patrol — usually with something already eating them.
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Whitefly A puff of white when you brush the leaf, and stickiness underneath.
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Thrips Silvery streaking with black specks — the specks are how you tell them from mites.
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Cutworms A seedling lying beside its own stump in the morning, cut clean through at soil level.
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Attract
Hoverflies The adults only drink nectar. It is the larvae that eat the aphids.
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Lacewings Golden-eyed adults that mostly drink; larvae that hunt like small alligators.
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Ladybugs The one predator here where the adults hunt as hard as the larvae do.
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to keep them in check — plant
nearby.
Growing from seed Start Hungarian Hot Wax indoors about 10 weeks before your last frost, keeping seeds in warm soil (around 20–25 °C). Seeds usually come up in around 14 days. Move seedlings out once the danger of frost has passed, in full sun, spaced about 45 cm apart. Expect to harvest in roughly 70 days.
Hungarian Hot Wax seed rarely stays viable beyond 2 years — track what's still worth sowing.
Companion Planting African Marigold ❧ African Marigold attracts Hoverflies and Lacewings and more, which prey on the Aphids and Whitefly and more that attack Hungarian Hot Wax ❧ African Marigold suppresses pests that trouble Hungarian Hot Wax ❧ Hungarian Hot Wax draws Bees and Bumblebees and more that improve pollination for both French Marigold ❧ French Marigold attracts Hoverflies and Lacewings and more, which prey on the Aphids and Whitefly and more that attack Hungarian Hot Wax ❧ French Marigold suppresses pests that trouble Hungarian Hot Wax ❧ Hungarian Hot Wax draws Bees and Bumblebees and more that improve pollination for both Allard's Lavender ❧ Allard's Lavender attracts Hoverflies and Parasitic wasps, which prey on the Aphids and Whitefly and more that attack Hungarian Hot Wax ❧ Hungarian Hot Wax draws Bees and Bumblebees that improve pollination for both
How to grow Hungarian Hot Wax Sow 10 weeks before frost Germinates 14 days Space 45 cm apart Grow Full sun Harvest ~70 days Water: Medium · Height: 60 cm · Soil: Rich, well-draining, warm (pH 5.5–6.8)
Parasitic wasps
Braconidae, Ichneumonidae and relatives
Pinhead-sized, stingless, and lethal to aphids and caterpillars from the inside.
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Minute pirate bugs Minute pirate bugs Anthocoridae
Two to three millimetres, and both stages hunt — thrips and spider mites, thirty a day.
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Ground beetles Night-active ground hunters, taking slugs, cutworms and leatherjackets at soil level.
A cluster that works together These three thrive alongside Hungarian Hot Wax — and alongside each other.
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