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Originally Posted by estación seca
I've thought about this a lot. I have a plant of this (originally from Ray) that gets terrible care. It doesn't have, and has never had, a single leaf spot. I forget to water it, I put it in too much sun, it gets low humidity, a rat bit into it.
I doubt your indoor humidity is very high in the winter; I recall México City being quite dry in winter. So I would keep it segregated. Maybe you can find some virus test strips eventually, either in México or another country.
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Oh, now I'm back to paranoia haha. It is now segregated, and I'll check if our local orchid society or our national university has access to virus test strips.
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Originally Posted by camille1585
I do hope that you'll find a way to get the plant tested, virus infection is so hard to prove otherwise, especially with so many other diseases that have similar symptoms.
I went on the Agdia website (they make immuno test strips for CMV+ORSV) and found the list of distributors in Mexico. Agdia International Distributors
With the bit of Spanish that I know, I saw that the second one (fumaplant.com) has that test strip in their catalogue. No idea if they sell to individuals, nor the prices.
I had a bunch of Phals with very similar spotting, that appeared year after year. I was quite certain it was virus, likely ORSV or CMV. Having the luxury of working at an institute with a plant disease diagnostic labs, last year I had 7 plants tested for 7 different viruses that commonly affect orchids. All came back negative, and further testing concluded that it was fungal (but no ID). |
That's so helpful! Thank you, Camille!
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