Phal. Mini Mark 'Holm' with no virus?

[quiltergal]

Yep! Been battling that for more than a year. Sucks!

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by lepetitmartien

Afaik, to find a Mini Mark negative would be of interest for a lot of people.

Since I haven't seen a response yet, I'll repeat my question from further back in the thread: Is it common knowledge, that I wasn't aware of, that Mini Marks are virused and if so which virus(es) (if any besides ORSV, cited by the original poster) and which cultivar(s)?

[lepetitmartien]

It is common knowledge, at least in Europe, and I'm not aware of a long life unstained Mini…

It's to the point some are working heavily at recreating the cross, as it seems the available ones are all virused.

I bought 2 in a pot last year in july, beautiful, 5 spikes, scented (not all are). One dwindled and died in december , the other one is in a bad shape right now…

It's VERY depressing.

[NYCorchidman]

They must have been infected with multiple virus then.

As I understand, they grow and flower just fine with CymMV, but when infected with both CymMV and ORSV, the flowers are deformed (including color breaks but not always) and growths can be (but not always) affected.

I don't know how other virus affect phals.

Sorry to hear about your dead or dying ones.

[sarahliz79]

I actually contacted the grower that I got it from and he suggested mites...

He suggested to spray with sulfer based spray. I had already chopped off the leaf at that point so we'll see if it survives....

[lepetitmartien]

I can tell for mine it's not mites. I have doubt of fungus so I'm treating, but I really don't like the old leaves.

It's starting a new leaf though, all nice.