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Originally Posted by Movnhorses
I wonder what the vendors would say if everyone started bring their test strips with them before buying any orchids... intresting thought...
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Of all the positive tests I received so far the one that makes me the maddest is the orchid I potted at Dukes Farm. I took an orchid class there two days prior to Superstorm Sandy. It was my second class there. We got to pot either a slipper orchid or an Oncidium. I chose the Onc. amp. They all had a lot of yellow and brown spotting. The instuctor let us know, without us inquiring, that the plants weren't diseased but affected by one of his co-workers overspraying with fungicide on a too hot and sunny day. I asked him directly when he was helping me divide the plant to back up the pseudobulbs for re-planting if he was sure it wasn't more than the spray and he told me, "it is just what I said". Well, something in my gut told me to test it because the new growths were also mottled. I couldn't see how a fungicide could do that. Positive for CymMV!!! I am so mad!!! When we toured the back greenhouses the slipper greenhouse was almost empty, it had looked sickly the visit prior to that, and all of the greenhouses were suffering from black rot. Now I see that the rot and other cultural issues must have been secondary to viruses. I am going to e-mail them tomorrow. They should inform all of the other people that paid for and took the class that they could have (do have, since they were all from the same master plant) virused orchids. I don't think they are unaware of the virus
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