Virused Bulbs
gardenpt@aol.com (Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:18:40 PDT)

Is there any data on how long plant viruses can hang out in the soil?

They don't survive in the soil unless it's in affected plant debris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas plummer <nickplummer@gmail.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, Apr 8, 2014 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: [pbs] Virused Bulbs

Is there any data on how long plant viruses can hang out in the soil? Last
year, I grew some Gloriosa superba from a commercial vendor. The plants
exhibited color break in the flowers and some oddly deformed foliage, so I
threw them out at the end of the season. I now have some new plants I grew
from seed that came from Silverhill, and I wonder about locating them along
the same fence as the old ones. The questionable plants were in pots, but
roots may have invaded the ground.