Nerine notes
Matt Mattus (Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:43:11 PDT)
Interesting, John, I never think about such things. Good information to
have.
As an FYI, I snapped the stems off by hand. I wonder what commercial growers
do about such virus?
I have to admit that I rarely fuss over such things since I am not a serious
grower or collector of the genus, they just do well for me for some reason,
which keeps me curious about them. For two years now I almost moved them to
the compost pile to make room for other genera, then, this year, they almost
all bloomed, (clearly, they trying to send me a signal!)
Matt
Matt Mattus
Worcester, MA USA
On 11/4/10 3:31 AM, "John Grimshaw" <j.grimshaw@virgin.net> wrote:
I wrote a series of posts on Nerine on my blog last week, which members
might find interesting.
Matt Mattus's beautiful pictures of cut stems remind me that at the Nerine &
Amaryllid Society meeting last Saturday the subject of virus - often a
problem in Nerine - was raised. It was suggested that a principle method of
transmission was through cutting the flowers and passing it on in the sap
from plant to plant, so it may be wise to clean the knife with spirit
between each plant while cutting stems.
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