How is your Snake eyes?

10 months ago

FB group has post after post about Snake eyes hostas being infected as major distributor wholesale known to have them infected.
I seriously want not to hyperventilate over entire HVX thing.
I do have 2 Snake eyes, both are from Gary years back. Since he was doing mostly his own TC I think I should not go around and test all hostas ...

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lindalana 5b Chicago
Original Author

10 months ago

Gardenchick, one gal on FB tested hers, which looked fine. Tested positive for HVX though... Which brought my attention. There is hosta disease FB page, getting kinda funky out there.

I think awareness has to be there and just good healthy methods used for upkeep. If it in the garden it is there, right? I have large hosta collection too, although I tend to buy from more specialty places. Couple of years ago I had one plant looking funky, it was one of my oldest plants and was potted for years. I just threw it away.

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djacob Z6a SE WI
10 months ago
I don’t have one, but is it possible to know the name of the wholesaler so we can avoid purchasing from them???

debra
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miles10612
10 months ago
i've had 2 and neither did well--they dwindled and died several years ago.
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gardengoon1957
10 months ago
I have had mine since 2015 its doing fine
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indianagardengirl
10 months ago
Bought mine last year at a nursery and went out now to look closely. Oh dear.
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lindalana 5b Chicago
Original Author
10 months ago
Indianagardengirl, sorry to see it.

Debra, all big stores are carrying loads of infected plants and am not sure on specific names but if you google Snake eyes suppliers few names come up. Not sure if mentioning names is legal.
djacob Z6a SE WI
10 months ago
Gotcha!
Indianagg, so sorry to see what looks like HVX….. ☹️ I got it on a Royal Standard maybe 5 years ago. Hard to deal with.

debra
indianagardengirl
10 months ago
Yes, has me paranoid about each new hosta I bought last year. I had not worried much about HVX because I had not seen it. How foolish of me!
indianagardengirl
10 months ago
Here is Fire Island. I thought it was sunburn, but it only gets a couple hours in early morning. now wondering if it is something more sinister.
djacob Z6a SE WI
10 months ago
My experience is FI burns easily. Mine only gets a slice of Sun through a fence and it burns there usually. I don’t think yours looks infected, I think it looks burned.

debra
bkay2000
10 months ago
I agree with Debra.

bk
indianagardengirl
10 months ago
Thanks Debra and bkay, appreciate both of you weighing in. I will move FI somewhere full shade. (After sterilizing my tools after the removal of Snake Eyes.)
gardenchick2010
10 months ago
Seeing this thread now, 2 weeks after I just bought Snake Eyes, at Walmart, no less. I think it looks ok. What do you guys think. And sorry, indianagardengirl to see yours was infected.
djacob Z6a SE WI
10 months ago
The Royal Standard I had was old and still manifested the virus. I did buy the test kit, $$$ and it did test positive. I chucked it and left the spot open. I read that it was ok to plant other plants in the soil, but not a hosta. It sat that way for several years. Last year Sage was getting so burned I moved it to a spot next to where the other hosta had been. It seems I read that after a few years it would be safe to plant in the area again. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

debra
gardenchick2010
10 months ago
My new Snake Eyes is planted, so too late to throw out the pot. I'm in Canada, so maybe the wholesaler here is ok. Guess time will tell.

Ironically, my Sun Power which I learned here on this forum was infected with HVX, I bought at an actual garden centre, not a big box one. It's been a few years since I dug it out, and I planted turtleheads in the spot, and they seem happy. 🙂