Viruses are something that freaks me out. I've been just throwing out "suspicious" plants.
I still haven't got any of mine tested, but I plan to very soon. I'm thinking of sending 20 samples to critter creek lab.
By the way, can you post some pictures of miltoniopsis and oncidiums leaves that tested negative.
The crappy looking leaves are the main reason I steer away from oncidiums although many are beautiful in bloom.
My brassia and wilsonara started to show virus looking symtoms. I had these for a while and looked nice and green so far, but just this week it turned up. dang! hopefully just nothing but...
The thing about getting oncidiums tested is that most are pretty common and not that expensive, so I usually dump them if I don't like the leaves and buy new ones in bloom. lol
Now I'm thinking testing at at least these two suspicious ones so I know for sure and either thow away or have peace of mind.
Maybe those ugly leaves are just natural as some say, or some other virus that easily affect oncidiums or fungus or I don't know...
By the way, your cattleya look terrible! (not to be mean or anything). I would have thrown it out without having it tested but I guess it makes good bye easier when you know the status for sure!
Now you can go buy yourself a new cattleya! lol
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Originally Posted by camille1585
I wanted to test a few of my suspicious plants a few years ago, and contacted Agdia to find out who their European distributors were. But they kept shuttling me around, " no if you're in the netherlands you have to contact x". Do that and I get sent somewhere else, and so on, and it seems like they are only selling to businesses/researchers here. Never did figure out how to order strips!
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How about I buy a whole bunch and send them to you in France? no one will know!
It's not like we're doing it at a commercial level or distributing unwanted diseases. some chemical mix that will be used once and go into trash!
No offence if you're against my idea.
I'm sure you would have done it already vis your friends in NY.