RE: CMV?
Steve
Could you please send me all the seed you have from your 99 pumpkins.
I will look after disposing of it for you.
It should be incinerated at high temperatures to avoid any future
contamination to the gene pool.
And you wanted to polute Australia and other country's with your scurvy of
seeds - I bet those countries would love to have you pollute their farms
with something that they may not already have.
Maybe you could be the answer to a trivia question in the future - name the
person responsible for contaminating the southern hemisphere with mosiac
virus?
Do the right thing and burn all the seeds from last year - even if you think
they are OK. I am sure the whole world will not risk ever growing any seed
from the Sedlar seed stock now.
And do you really think that all of us on the list are going to buy that
"slightly far fetched" story about how you were so careful with all the
precautions you took? Wearing the I put on
>a jumper, dispoable rubber gloves, and did surgical scrubs with Hibiclens
>after handling, and everythign was washed and disinfected with bleach after
etc, etc bwahahhahahaahahhahhahahah
Find a new hobby sport.
Dylan
>Paul, most of the info you are giving is correct, but some is misleading
>and
>some is absolutely false. Before posting information like that, please
>check
>your facts.
>Right off, I just want to make clear again that I never offered any seeds
>form a virus infected plant, you MISREAD my post. I get the feeling that
>this point has still not been cleared up (with you, anyway).
>Second, your statement about virus transmission via seed....where have you
>been for the last year? Dr. Eddleman as well as several others said that
>the
>virus even being present and active in seeds is NOT LIKELY. There has NOT
>been ONE RECORDED CASE of CMV being transmitted via seed. NOT ONE. So that
>statement you make may be your own theory (based on what research, I don't
>know), but please do not state it as a fact, because it is not.
>As for controlling the virus, you are certainly right, there is no cure
>that
>exists today for it. But destroying the plants really does not rid you of
>virus problems. CMV is spread only by an intrusive physical vector, such as
>a chewing insect, or pruning tools, etc. To stop spread, the #1 thing you
>need to do is to prevent any vectors from coming in contact with infected
>plant matter then with another plant, not simply "destroy" anything
>infected. Simply pulling and burning plants with no further control is what
>is irresponsible. This does not directly address the way the virus spreads
>at all. Sure, pulling and burning will certainly reduce the odds, but there
>is always plant matter and roots left in the soil no matter how thorough
>the
>pulling is. If pulled and the growing area is left exposed, insects can
>still transmit the virus from the debris. The key is ISOLATION. PLants
>destroyed or not, the area should be sprayed and sealed off for the
>remaining growing (insect) season so nothing can get in and if they do
>somehow, they will not get out.
>I have talked to many many poeple (not just pumpkin growers but others) who
>do not destroy their plants if they contract CMV late in the season. (After
>fruit set). Since the fruit isn;t usually affected if contracted late, they
>just finish off the crop. Now *I* personally don't agree with this, unless
>the infected plants are immediately sealed off. I went thorugh a lot of
>expense in sealing off my plants that were infected. They were sprayed
>withI put on
>a jumper, dispoable rubber gloves, and did surgical scrubs with Hibiclens
>after handling, and everythign was washed and disinfected with bleach after
>powerful chemical combos, sealed with floating row cover, then they were
>enclosed in an airtight plastic tenting with ventilation coming from
>filtered air ducts, and temperature control by thermostat, etc. None of the
>plants were handled the same day as the others, and when they were, ,
>as well (and ONLY used for the infected plants).
>I think the measure I took went WAY above and beyond simply pulling the
>plants. WHY I went through all of this when I probably wouldn't even get a
>decent pumpkin out of it? It woudl take a long time to explain, but it took
>over a year of research to hand pick these specific genetic strains to grow
>and cross, and the supply of these seeds is very limited. I wanted the
>seeds
>for my own experimentation also. There are dozens of othewr reasons as
>well,
>but the fact is I went above and beyond what most anyone would do to stop
>the spread of the virus. So I really would appreciate it if certain people
>would stop referring to me as a virus monger. I should get praise, if
>anything, for all of the effort I went through to directly stop the virus
>from spreading. People who simply rip out the plants without spraying and
>sealing off the infected area are the ones who should get "reprimanded" for
>having such a simple-minded solution to the problem which doesn't even
>directly target the cause.
>
>
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