Lilies: Open Discussion of Lily Mosaic Virus/Tulip Breaking Virus, 1 by DreamOfSpring

DreamOfSpring wrote:
So sorry, Rhonda, it does look like it to me.

Is this virus relatively new - so that we are still trying to figure out some aspects of how to contain/avoid it?

I think I'm going to avoid buying any additional lilies until I have erradicated it from my garden. I guess I'll define "erradicated" as a few years without an outbreak. When I do buy again, I think I'll try to limit my acquisitions to a small number each year and "quarantine" them either in pots or a seperate bed for atleast the 1st year. For me that's what seems to make sense - try to get back to a virus free state and then treat newcomers as suspect.

I understand that it may have come from somewhere down the street via aphids, but given the large number of lilies I bought last year and the fact that in my community gardening is all but non-existant, the odds seem to favor this thing having come in on a bulb or other plant and then been spread by aphids. Or maybe I'm just hoping that's the case, because if it came from somewhere else in the community, then i have no control over it at all - and that IS scarey.

Here, BTW, is another, perhaps even stranger, picture of a bloom FROM THE SAME STALK as the one pictured at the top of this thread. So far, this one doesn't have any obvious streaks or splotches. It might even appear relatively normal except that it's supposed to be RED.