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Or you could salvage it by cutting a slit in the stem lengthwise where the borer is, extracting the borer, and burying the stem in the soil to reroot (still attached to the mother plant, though).
That might work to save the plant but I think the idea of pulling and burning is to slow the spread of the bugs. When we've split stems, we see lots of borers, not just a few.
Or you could salvage it by cutting a slit in the stem lengthwise where the borer is, extracting the borer, and burying the stem in the soil to reroot (still attached to the mother plant, though).
That might work to save the plant but I think the idea of pulling and burning is to slow the spread of the bugs. When we've split stems, we see lots of borers, not just a few.
