HVX on Striptease? Updated with better pics

k9clipper · Post by **k9clipper** » Apr 29, 2007 4:22 pm

I am a newbie and I have only had this plant a year, it is my favorite but I'm afraid it may be infected.

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 29, 2007 8:35 pm

Welcome to the forums

Your Striptease look like it have had a bit of frostdamage to me( the bumples) and is doing so´me interesting sporting/changes- aka the the white stripe... keep it away from pother hostas, desinfect tools and nails if you brak anything on it ,before breaking anything on an other hosta. If it looks fine, relax and enjoy.. if it get ink bleeds along the veins.. you have to dig it up and get it out of the garden, but I dó not think so

The Blue Cadet is harder to see, can you do a better picture ?

Pia

k9clipper · Post by **k9clipper** » Apr 29, 2007 9:27 pm

I'm glad about the Striptease, we did get a late frost after some of the hostas were up. I will take a better picture of the Blue and post in the morning, it is dark here now.

Post by **Chris_W** » Apr 29, 2007 10:05 pm

Hi Amanda,

If the bumps are confined to just the tips of the leaves it might be frost damage, but knowing the history of Striptease I would be very careful with it.

Lake a look at the back of the leaf. Are there bubbles on the back side? That often happens when there is frost damage to the eyes before they come up.

Blue Cadet sure looks suspicious

Post by **Chris_W** » May 01, 2007 7:30 am

Hi,

From your new pictures I don't see anything to make me suspect virus. But like I mentioned before, keep an eye on it. Watch for the green stripes down the veins in the gold center. That is the most common symptom for HVX in Striptease.

Chris

planwerk · Post by **planwerk** » May 01, 2007 7:49 pm

I agree with Chris, doesn't look like HVX to me.