At 7:39 PM -0500 11/5/05, J.E. Shields wrote: >Arnold, we heard it from Sir Peter Smithers in the old [BULB] list. Sir >Peter has said that he is convinced that feeding any of the broad-leaf >Nerine varieties releases latent viruses, which can decimate a collection. **Interesting. I don't know how fertilizing can 'release latent viruses'. >I'm not willing to test it by actually fertilizing some of mine. Anyone >else want to volunteer to test Sir Peter's hypothesis? **I fertilize all my nerines, with a weak solution, whenever I think about it. I also water them year round and they live outside in pots. Temps get down to around 32F for a couple of weeks. We'll see if they survive this year. Beginner's luck? -- susan, who is..... owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... on the North Coast of CA, USA susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2005