mosaic virus ( is it the same for other plants?)

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Grasa

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Posted 1397841310	Reply with quote #1

I am learning how to care for my new acquired golden queen raspberry and has this description: Golden Queen seems to be especially tender and is easily injured by high winds, and as the leaves come to full size they are very rugose or much crumled. Unfortunately the plants are very susceptible to the mosaic disease and rapidly succumb to it. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/dispimage.pl?6508 Since there is a good chance my figs has the virus, should I be concerned? I planted my Carolines right under my fig tree, do not know if the tree has the virus but I do know many of my UCDavis plants have it. Any advise? __________________ Grasa Seattle, WA

Ampersand

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Posted 1397841439	Reply with quote #2

Different virus. Raspberries that are afflicted die in a few years and berries become crumbly and inedible. Try to avoid planting near wild raspberries, they are sources of the virus. I highly doubt FMV can afflict raspberries, though tobacco MV is impressive in the list of what it can infect.

bullet08

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Posted 1397842104	Reply with quote #3

mosaic virus are more specific to the each plant types. they don't jump around.. as much.. so.. tobacco mosaic virus will not jump to figs and so on. strange thing is, almost all the plants that are being mass produced have mosaic resistant varieties. i guess fig just isn't creating enough money or it's not detrimental to the visual pleasure of the product. __________________ Pete Durham, NC Zone 7b "don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." - sir winston churchill "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - the baroness thatcher *** all my figs have FMV/FMD, in case you're wondering. * * and... i don't sell things. what little i have will be posted here in winter for first come first serve base to be shared. no, i'm not a socialist...***

brackishfigger

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Posted 1397845618	Reply with quote #4

I believe "mosaic" simply refers to the appearance of the leaves of plants that have the illness, sorta like calling a mammalian disorder "wasting", with any number of possible pathogens in any given species, but relatively few that are active across different species. We don't worry about catching "feline AIDS" because it is specific to cats, and only resembles human AIDS in that it afffects the immune system.

pawpawbill

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Posted 1397858294	Reply with quote #5

Don't sneeze on your figs or raspberries. Friggin' viruses

DesertDance

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Posted 1397858558	Reply with quote #6

Almost eery fig has FMV. Some are clean, but they will catch the virus if they are sent to you. This is nothing to worry about. Makes the leaves a little blotchy, but does not KILL the tree. And when a tree get's old, the virus moves on to younger trees. Almost all my trees have it, but they bear delicious fruit. Maybe you should welcome it. The tree thinks it's dying, so it's fruit is the best!! Certain climates struggle with the virus, so here in Sunny Southern California, it's not a problem, but in cold places, might be too much for a tree to bear. Suzi __________________ Zone 9b, Southern California. "First year they sleep, Second year they creep, Third year they leap!" Wish List: I wish all of you happy fig collecting! My wishes have been fulfilled!

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