Re: The "uglies?"

In a message dated 04/09/2000 5:46:42 PM Central Daylight Time, 
AmberWaveG@aol.com writes:

<< 
 <<  However, if it is 
  virused, the best thing you can do is discard all the plants that show 
  the virus traits and BURN them to prevent the spread of the virus. >>
 
 Hi Joe
 I had a few of these plants on the hill and as Mike said I thought that the 
 way they looked was due to our late hard freeze hitting them as they were 
 just starting to unfurl. I couldn't stand the way they looked so I potted 
 them up and put them to the side, I will take your advise.
 Thanks Gary >>

I have had this problem in the past with plants left out exposed in pots over 
the winter, the second flush of leaves usually are fine and by next year they 
are as good as new. I had this happen last year to a few large clumps of 
longifolia I had left on the ground over winter-never found the time to pot 
them up, each clump had 50-100 eyes. The first set of leaves were  short and 
twisted with rough textures, after cutting the clumps up and potting them up 
and cutting off the foliage the next set of leaves were perfect but mixed in 
were a few "bad" ones at the edges. By the third flush of leaves every thing 
was back to normal. 

It is a form of winter injury, I would hazard a guess that it is due to 
tissue desiccation in winter. 

Paul
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