Variegated Clivia seedlings

Alberto Castillo ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com
Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:09:38 PDT
> One of my job rolls in the 80s was quality control in a massive wholesale
> nursery & i had a fascination at the time with variegated viral infections
> that cause variegation in other wise healthy ornamental & native plants in
> perfect growing conditions, we supplied woolworths & coles supermarkets, so
> everything had to be perfect & the variegated plants were usually separated
> from the group for experimentation or dumped. So i started to collect them &
> work on keeping the variegated viral strains in circulation for development
> for the nursery industry. I see many of my babies that were traded with
> others & are in nurseries & gardens today. I had many species that were very
> unusual to see as variegated & was very successful at keeping them that way
> by simply removing enough of the green foliage that the virus could stay
> dominant, while balancing enough green material for photosynthesis.
> 
> This may be quite difficult to do in clivias because they tend to be slower
> growing, like a low light environment & are pretty tough, so they will
> easily out grow the virus in comfortable growing conditions. Good on u for
> having a healthy garden :-) Some times they do not revert so easilly & will
> stay variegated for much longer but its often a game of cat & mouse.
> 
> It would definetaly be worth the experiment to start removing some of the
> green leaf material, the virus effected leaves might support more cloriphill
> to survive in time & you can remove more green leaf, eventually the virus
> may take over again. Its a fun experiment & would be cool to know if it
> works 4 u....."
 
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MIND BOGGLING!!!
 
TO THINK THAT SERIOUS GROWERS ARE AT PAINS TRYING TO HAVE THEIR COLLECTIONS HEALTHY!!!! 
 		 	   		  



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