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Originally Posted by SJF
What is the etiquette for an orchid that tested positive for two viruses for a newly acquired orchid? Do you gently tell the grower?
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Yes, that is a question that I keep pondering.
For an expensive plant that I recently purchased, I told the grower, I sent him 5 Agdia test strips so that he could try to find one that was not infected but all that he tested were infected. So now I have a store credit that I will use this spring when he has some more plants that I want. I have previously purchased a number of plants from him that were virus free. Other growers may not react as calmly to being told that the plant they sold is infected.
For the other virused plants that I have weeded out from my collection, I had had them long enough that I couldn't say for certain that they had not become contaminated while in my care (though I am certain that didn't hapen) so I have said nothing and just destroyed the plants. What I will do in my next round of purchasing I am still pondering. Very many growers have virus infected plants.
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