Love Pat with Virus?

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EmpressWu
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Love Pat with Virus?

Post by EmpressWu »

Dear Community,

This is my 2nd posting (the 1st posting never appeared - do not know why though). Would you kindly have a look at my
hosta? I believe I see 'ink bleeding' there. Here are some photos:
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Re: Love Pat with Virus?

Post by Chris_W »

Nope, that looks fine.

Sometimes hostas will grow fast and the color won't show through right away and you get a look similar to this. The correct coloring is on the veins which tells me this isn't a virus. When you get "bleeding" along the veins that is the wrong color - lighter or darker - then that screams out virus potential.

But this one looks fine to me :)

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Re: Love Pat with Virus?

Post by EmpressWu »

Thank you for your time and expertise. This Hosta did in fact grow very fast. Last year it was still tiny. I placed it more into the light now.
This forum is awesome - I will spend quite some time here to catch up on Hosta knowledge. 8-)
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