Joshua, the stem bulb plant I do think is virused. But these
I am not convinced. I just don't see anything that could not just as easily be explained by other things.
It might be a good idea to start over (virus free) if you had a particularly knoxious virus strain in the garden, but in the end, I don't think any lily garden is free of virus. (Well, maybe Darm's in the Northwest Territories, Canada, because it is so completely isolated). And just about all of us have removed good lilies, mistakenly thinking they were virused, especially in our earlier years of growing lilies. My point is that in the end, one manages viruses, rather than eradicating them (even though that is always the goal). People often bring disease or insect samples of things in their yard or in their house for me to diagnose. Almost invariably, they ask "where did it come from?", as if they think they live in a hermetically sealed bubble and have control over every atom that enters their domicile.
I have often wondered about the vigor of seedlings, and how much of that is juvenility and how much is because they are virus free.
