Could it be snail/slug damage when the flowers were budding? When they get to my Clivia in the bud the resulting flowers have a similar distortion. Some petals look half eaten, but it's hard to tell from a photo. Shmuel Silinsky Jerusalem, Israel Zone 9b On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 3:30 PM Johannes-Ulrich Urban via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Dear All, > > Can I ask for your advice and opinion on these Freesia flowers? The bulbs > were purchased in autumn in a garden centre, they are pot grown and outside > in the open garden. They are not protected from rain. > Principally I am very happy with them but there are three inflorescences > which have these deformed flowers. New flowers start deformed and do not > open properly. The upper flowerson the picture are normal. > What is this? A virus? Thrips? The effects of rain? Should I remove these > bulbs in order to prevent spread to the other bulbs in the same pot? Or > should I discard the whole pot? I definitely want to keep my collection > healthy. > > Thank you very much for your help > > Uli > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image0.jpeg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 138296 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
