Re: Clivia/chlorine solution

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Claire Peplowski wrote:

  If cleaned with soap and water and the planted dried out for
> while, no harm other than some disfiguration occurs.  I also use a
> chlorine solution spraying it into the center of the plant especially
> the leaf axils (are they axil in a Clivia?)

Could you talk a little more about the 'chlorine soltion' that you use
Claire? (I'm assuming its some dilution of a Javex-type product?)

I am looking for something which will help with a virus problem on Blood
Lilies (same family as Clivia).  By looking at various sites on the
internet, I tentatively identified my problem as "Hypeastrum Virus" (a
virus spred by aphids from Amaryllis to other plants in the same family).
Last year something turned the flower stalk on my Blood Lily to mush.  I
dried out the bulb and kept it in hot sun much of last summer (or at
least, as much 'hot sun' as Nova Scotia offered!)  but after reading your
post I was wondering if dipping the bulb in 'chlorine solution' would help
at all.

I realize viruses (viri?) are inside the cells-  just grasping at any
straw here.  The Blood Lily has a flower the size of a soccer ball and it
was really heart-breaking to loose it!

 MArlene Davis
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