Miltonia Sunset - Page 2 - Orchid Board

silken · #11 01-14-2013, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by camille1585

I should take a pic of the leaves on mine, the marks on the older leaves are anything but subtle!! Funny how yours get so much spotting. I have around 7-8 Onc types, and only one has a lot of spotting, and all the others it's just a few spots here or there. Maybe because I really try to never get any water on the leaves. I don't mind the spotting too much, the big sprays of blooms on the Twinkle types and Sharry Baby are worth the inconvenience.

I would appreciate seeing the marking on the leaves if you have time to post a photo. The leaves in the flower photo look OK to me.

NYCorchidman · #12 01-15-2013, 09:56 PM

I actually am worried about the leaves even in this photo. The uneven tone of green on those leaves...

I dumped most of my oncidiums for leaves issues.

silken · #13 01-15-2013, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

I actually am worried about the leaves even in this photo. The uneven tone of green on those leaves...

I dumped most of my oncidiums for leaves issues.

Unless I have virus in most of my Milts and some Onc. mine do get like that sometimes. I just tried ordering some immuno strips from Agdia and Canada was not in the list for me to set up an account with them. So now I am waiting to see if they can ship here. Almost every other country in the world was on there

camille1585 · #14 01-16-2013, 05:10 AM

Sure I'll post a pic of the leaves this evening. The leaves in the photo here do look fine at first glance, but the unevenness of the green is the first stage of symptoms. It doesn't show well in the photo, but there is some faint but noticable streaking. The plant lives in isolation in the kitchen (with a Phal which I am suspicious of) and has its own container for watering. I would have tossed it earlier, but I thought that I would at least enjoy the blooms so that keeping it 18mo wasn't all for nothing.

I think I'm going to buy this book, Viruses in Orchids translated from Japanese to English by the the Royal Netherlands Society of Plant Pathology. A colleague forwarded me this a while ago, knowing that I'm into orchids, and plant pathology in general.