The potted bulbs which I can purchase during "season" (October to January that is) in Germany, these are - contrary to the bare bulbs - mostly infected from Mosaic virus. Which comes to light only when the first leaves are elongating: The manifestation of the mosaic always starts at the tips of the leaves. The growth of the plants is not affected, at least not conspicuously. This season I kept one of these, a "Picasso" and, although the mosaic is conspicuous, it grew vigorously and produced 12 leaves, a big bulb and offsets in abundance. So, as regards your loss, did you mean to indicate "they ceased to grow" or did you simply sacrifice them? And as regards Uli Urban's question: I have a spontaneous apparition of mosaic in my collection but very rarely, and if so then always on bulbs I purchased, never on a seedling. I can safely exclude that the intense pigmentation, such as shown in the picture from Don Kuonen indicates an infection from Mosaic. ________________________________ Von: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> im Auftrag von Del Allegood via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> Gesendet: Sonntag, 10. November 2019 20:56 An: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> Cc: Del Allegood <npublici@yahoo.com> Betreff: [pbs] Mosaic virus I have 82 pictures of hippeastrum with mosaic virus on photo bucket.I lost almost 2 thousand bulbs. Del _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…