Does this look like Rose Mosaic Virus?
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Rose Mosaic Virus & bloom quality
Comments (5)Yes, probably most body bag roses are infected. A lot of that has to do with the fact that the root stock of what ever mother plant the buds were taken from was infected and they were probably grafted to infected root stock as well. As for the difference in your blooms I doubt it had to do with RMV but more likely was due to the all around inferior quality of the plant. Most of those body bags are not grade #1 but more likely #1 1/2 or #2 grade. Depending on where it was from it may have been badly grafted, was certainly badly handled and pretty well whacked off for packaging. Not an auspicious start for any rose. I have many virused roses in my garden and have never noticed any difference in their over all vigor. For the most part they rarely even show symptoms except in times of great stress. Hmmm...like maybe this awful winter! We'll see... We have this discussion about RMV routinely here and there are two opposing sides. Listen to them both and make your own decision as to what you're willing to except. There are some roses out there that can not be had any other way then virused. They were more or less bred/introduced already virused since the only way they were ever propagated was to be grafted to virused root stock. Being that Proud Land was introduced in 1969 it may well be one of those. There have been strides taken to get more varieties cleaned up but it's a long road and will take some time yet before it's done. And we may lose some varieties altogether in the process. In our already shrinking rose world I hate to see that happen....See MoreRose Mosaic Virus?
Comments (2)Hi Jeri, I plan on taking some good pictures of this climber once it starts blooming. It has a bunch of buds so it is happy, for a change. I thought I would take a few pictures of the leaves now and then remove the bad looking ones and see what happens with the ones that look good. My dad might have picked it up at a clients house and took it home thinking he could cure it or to see what effect different treatments might have had if it was sick. The Maybe Dr Huey is just feet away and does not have any of the similarly marked leaves. But this one seems to have much lighter and more tender of leaves....See MoreWhat is this?
Comments (42)When last I discussed the question with Keith Zary, he said that they (J&P) were moving to own-root, for economic reasons. But that was before the company was sold. NOW? I have no clue what they're doing. I'm not buying roses there anyhow. FWIW, if I REALLY want a rose, I am willing to grow it virused, if I cannot have it any other way. HOWEVER, remember that, because of gophers, we must grow our roses in squats in the ground. I'd bet that, grown that way, the chance of root-graft is greatly reduced. As far as our 20-y-o Baronne Prevost goes, I am thinking hard about removing it, and replacing it with "Linsley Plot Quartered Pink," (a Cemetery clone) which I gather is B.P. This one, I suspect, has a reasonably good chance of not being virused. Jeri Jeri...See MoreRose Mosaic Virus photos?
Comments (0)It does not look like Mosaic because it is not a pattern, its more of a solid yellow with some green. I am hoping its a fungal, but it's probably Rose Mosaic Virus from hybrid tea plants. Normally I take them off, and there are not a lot of them, and if I use fungicides the issue improves....See Morellydecke
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