Except for several (out of laziness), I've tested every single plant that comes into the house, and I've gotten in my opinion an unacceptable rate of virused plants from vendors everyone else think are A+. The vast majority of virused plants have no symptoms, at least for a while. Some suspect plants are surprisingly virus free. If I only tested ugly plants, I would have missed most of the virused ones.
I've actually gotten tired of buying test strips and tossing plants that I'm now only buying flasks and plants from select vendors that I haven't gotten viruses from. In my experience, that's a handful out of dozens. I hate to be like chicken little sounding the alarm. I've seen members in this forum buy plants from the same batch (even mericloned ones) and vendor that I tested positive from, showing off how healthy their plants looked, and I couldn't do anything but cringe. It's gotten a bit stressful, so my solution is that I simply stop buying plants from the majority of vendors. Not even exaggerating. I'm afraid of going to orchid shows from the PTSD of seeing those test strips and the fact that I know most people don't test.
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