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Grasa
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I am learning how to care for my new acquired golden queen raspberry and has this description: |
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Ampersand
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Different virus. Raspberries that are afflicted die in a few years and berries become crumbly and inedible. |
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bullet08
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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. |
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brackishfigger
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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. |
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pawpawbill
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Don't sneeze on your figs or raspberries. Friggin' viruses |
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DesertDance
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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!! |
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