eBay's marblekg (Gary Beinemann) - Orchid Virus Superspreader

[K-Sci]

I've purchased four orchids from eBay seller marblekg, Gary Beinemann. All four tested positive for cymMV and two didn’t bloom with the advertised flower. Further, this eBay seller with over 500 eBay listings documents his own disregard for basic virus control practices.

All 10 of the plants in the photos below are from Beinemann's current eBay listings. These plants and hundreds of others were staged with damaged roots rubbing on the same location of a dirty lawn chair seat. The virus from the injured roots of all the preceding plants being transferred to the wounds of the next. Anyone buying one of the plants in the photos below, and literally hundreds like them, likely has or will receive a virus-infected orchid.

-Keith