Hello, I am new to this forum and have been a hobbyist for about 5 years. Window growing with lights and humidifiers (big window ^.^) and now in the process of building a green house. Obviously no expert. Began with traditional phals...now I mostly have catts and have very good success with them. With the green house coming, I decided to virus test my collection of about 80 plants and 15 were virused; ironically, ten were the "failure to thrive" group I've been hanging onto and had little reason to continue after that. But I LOVED those plants just the same. The other five have CymMV and are doing fine quarantined. Nick, if your collection is fairly valuable and/or sentimental...WHY RISK bringing in these plants? My recommendation would be to take them ONLY IF you have a separate place to nurture them before you give them away to your family and friends. Denise

Just did! It had 4 flowers with streaks, no new growths. I put it on the back patio to enjoy while it was blooming then put it in the trash. Couldn't really enjoy it though for remembering how pretty it should be.

if it put it in quarantine you should be ok, most antivirus programs allow you to go to the chest and from there select delete. I would also run these 2 free programs to make sure you do not have anything else. SUPERAntiSpyware Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to your desktop. * Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program. * At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish. * If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. * Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan. * When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. * Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected. Install them, update them then do the scans and let them clean up what they find. Also I would go and run this online scan too. FREE Online Virus Scan

"Palo verde witches broom disease occurs primarily in the blue palo verde tree Parkinsonia florida (Benth. ex A. Gray) S. Wats, which is native to the southwestern (SW) states of the US and northwestern Mexico. Symptoms of witches broom disease are manifest as dense clusters of short, flexible, thornless branches with stunted leaves, and branch dieback (Figure 1). With the increased popularity of the blue palo verde as a xeriscape tree in the SW-US, the disease has spread widely in both naturally-occurring and in nursery-grown trees, at >50% incidence in nursery-grown trees, alone." See: https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/PDIS-01-18-0124-PDN