Virus - Paph villosum?

[NYCorchidman]

If you are curious, why don't you test it for virus?
You cannot tell virus by just looking at it.
So whoever said it's got virus is wrong in the sense that one just cannot tell for sure by visual inspection, although good guessing is a possibility.

I have an amaryllis whose new leaves sometimes coming out with some clear area, but then they would green up in about couple of weeks.
not sure if my amaryllis is virused. lol
time to test, maybe. I hope lily virus does not transfer to orchids. oh, no!!!!

[The Mutant]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

If you are curious, why don't you test it for virus?
You cannot tell virus by just looking at it.
So whoever said it's got virus is wrong in the sense that one just cannot tell for sure by visual inspection, although good guessing is a possibility.

I have an amaryllis whose new leaves sometimes coming out with some clear area, but then they would green up in about couple of weeks.
not sure if my amaryllis is virused. lol
time to test, maybe. I hope lily virus does not transfer to orchids. oh, no!!!!

Because, it seems it's not that easy getting your hands on virus test-kits here in Europe, so I was hoping it would be easy to tell. After living on the web after a couple of days, I know this is not the case.

I've contacted what seems to be Agdia's distributor here in Europe, but I don't even know if they sell test-kits to hobby growers.

Problem #2; I don't even know which viruses to test for. Paphs seem a bit uncommon in showing symptoms of virus, even if they have it. The two most common ones, of course, but what else? Cucumber mosaic virus? Tobacco mosaic virus? Cymbidium ringspot virus?

It's looking more and more like it's the bin for this one.


EDIT:
I just tossed it. Couldn't stand the uncertainty anymore, even got a migraine because of this, and felt that it just wasn't worth it. Problem is that if it was virused, the probability of my entire collection being infected is high, since I've had it for such a long time, and although I keep everything sterilized, I've had mites. Oh well, too late now.

[wintergirl]

Originally Posted by The Mutant

EDIT:
I just tossed it. Couldn't stand the uncertainty anymore, even got a migraine because of this, and felt that it just wasn't worth it. Problem is that if it was virused, the probability of my entire collection being infected is high, since I've had it for such a long time, and although I keep everything sterilized, I've had mites. Oh well, too late now.

You did the right thing. I would have tossed it too. Hopefully no one else will get sick.

[The Mutant]

Originally Posted by wintergirl

You did the right thing. I would have tossed it too. Hopefully no one else will get sick.

Yep, it feels right, but not an easy thing to do. I've contacted Agdia and I'll see if I'll get some virus test strips to check the Paphs that have been standing the closest to the suspicious looking one. Just to be on the safe side.