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Need receipe for virussed plants, please
On 11/01/2012 18:02, Dave Hill wrote:
On Jan 11, 4:33 pm, wrote: On 10/01/2012 21:50, Phil Gurr wrote: wrote in message ... A few years ago, someone helpfully posted a recipe which used aspirin to help cure virussed plants. I'm sure I marked it as interesting, but now cannot find it. I have a patch of isolated Leucojum bulbs in the garden which are displaying virus-like symptoms. When in flower, the green marking on each petal is elongated into a central stripe, which is potentially *very* attractive. Sadly, there is some distortion in the flowerheads (due to virus?) which spoils their beauty and prevents me from propagating them. I'm really interested in curing the virus and growing these bulbs on to find out if the attractive striping i)persists without the virus, and ii)if that striping is generally stable over a few generations without reverting to the virussed distorted from, which certainly isn't attractive. Does anyone remember the aspirin recipe or, indeed, have any other advice? Thank you for your time. Standard treatment to remove virus from chrysanth stools is hot water. Stools are immersed in water at around 126F. for five minutes and then plunged into cold water, prior to boxing up. The old 'Burco' type boiler was ideal for this. I have also experimented with Dahlia tubers and found that they require ten minutes for the treatment to be effective. Leucojum bulbs should respond well to this treatment, a large saucepan is all that you need but take care that the water does not rise above 130F. Phil Thanks for that, Phil. I must admit the idea of scalding my precious bulbs is worrying, but I am taking notes. I will try the aspirin solution first, in the knowledge that I can try scalding if it doesn't work. Should I just scald the entire bulb as it grows in its pot, or remove all the soil from it and then plunge it? I suspect there are roots now, since it's in growth already; will these survive scalding, or should I wait till the bulbs are dormant and rootless and try then. Any ideas? I ask this because I understand that bulbs will not replace their roots when damaged, as other plants do. -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 130f is not scalding, its just over 10c above what would be calledas hand hot, you probably use it a lot warmer when you hand wash dishes. David Quite so! (Blush). I'll engage brain first next time ... now where *did* I put it? -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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Need receipe for virussed plants, please
On 11/01/2012 20:56, Phil Gurr wrote:
wrote in message ... On 10/01/2012 21:50, Phil Gurr wrote: wrote in message ... A few years ago, someone helpfully posted a recipe which used aspirin to help cure virussed plants. I'm sure I marked it as interesting, but now cannot find it. I have a patch of isolated Leucojum bulbs in the garden which are displaying virus-like symptoms. When in flower, the green marking on each petal is elongated into a central stripe, which is potentially *very* attractive. Sadly, there is some distortion in the flowerheads (due to virus?) which spoils their beauty and prevents me from propagating them. I'm really interested in curing the virus and growing these bulbs on to find out if the attractive striping i)persists without the virus, and ii)if that striping is generally stable over a few generations without reverting to the virussed distorted from, which certainly isn't attractive. Does anyone remember the aspirin recipe or, indeed, have any other advice? Thank you for your time. Standard treatment to remove virus from chrysanth stools is hot water. Stools are immersed in water at around 126F. for five minutes and then plunged into cold water, prior to boxing up. The old 'Burco' type boiler was ideal for this. I have also experimented with Dahlia tubers and found that they require ten minutes for the treatment to be effective. Leucojum bulbs should respond well to this treatment, a large saucepan is all that you need but take care that the water does not rise above 130F. Phil Thanks for that, Phil. I must admit the idea of scalding my precious bulbs is worrying, but I am taking notes. I will try the aspirin solution first, in the knowledge that I can try scalding if it doesn't work. Should I just scald the entire bulb as it grows in its pot, or remove all the soil from it and then plunge it? I suspect there are roots now, since it's in growth already; will these survive scalding, or should I wait till the bulbs are dormant and rootless and try then. Any ideas? I ask this because I understand that bulbs will not replace their roots when damaged, as other plants do. It can only be done with dormant bulbs and tubers. Phil Thanks, Phil. Not surprised, really. That means I'll have to till next winter for that particular remedy, so I'll try the aspirin trick in the meantime. Ta ever so much for your help. -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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Need receipe for virussed plants, please
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, Dave Hill writes Except that's paracetamol, and won't take the headache out of growing plants Ah but you aren't supposed to take it! Your plants might have a headache with the virus as well -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Need receipe for virussed plants, please
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, Dave Hill writes Never heard of hot water treatment for virus, always thought it was for root eelworm, Interesting! I wonder how a combination of hot water and asprin would work? Add a drop of whisky and some honey and lemon while you're at it. Might not kill the virus but they'll feel much better. -- regards andyw |
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Need receipe for virussed plants, please
On Jan 12, 12:09*pm, news wrote:
In article , Dave Hill writes Never heard of hot water treatment for virus, always thought it was for root eelworm, Interesting! I wonder how a combination of hot water and asprin would work? Add a drop of whisky and some honey and lemon while you're at it. Might not kill the virus but they'll feel much better. -- regards * andyw Just take the whiskey and you'll soon forget about the virus. |
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Need receipe for virussed plants, please
On 12/01/2012 13:38, Dave Hill wrote:
On Jan 12, 12:09 pm, wrote: In article , Dave writes Never heard of hot water treatment for virus, always thought it was for root eelworm, Interesting! I wonder how a combination of hot water and asprin would work? Add a drop of whisky and some honey and lemon while you're at it. Might not kill the virus but they'll feel much better. -- regards andyw Just take the whiskey and you'll soon forget about the virus. Now *that* sounds much better! :@} hic -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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