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your virus precautions?

linaria_gw
10 years ago

Hi there,
after a longer break I got a bunch of new nice cultivars, bulbs from 2 growers and some just bought at garden centers.
Now I realize that some show slight signs of virus like funny mottling and one is really stunted.

That stunted one I need to dig up and put into the trash.

But with the others I wondered:
when cutting flowers do you clean/disinfect your tools?

And how exactly?

With Hostas and HVX I read the advice against spreading it when gardening.

So, does it apply to Dahlias as well?

And what is your way to keep it feasible/ do-able?

First I figured I could cut using a pair of pruning shears and work on the virused looking one last.

But today I discovered that apart from 3 obvious cases, at least three more are showing mild symptoms, bugger.

So it looks like I should definitely try to minimize the risk of infecting my good plants using the same tool on all of them.
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Thanks for any ideas,

bye, Lin

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