HLB stories

[Pancrazio]

We talk a lot about HLB but i never see anyone with first hand reports.
id anyone find it on his own plants? How did you recognize it?

[Millet]

My strong guess is that members of this forum have trees already infected with greening.  It takes 3 to 5 years for trees to show symptoms.  I also believe that their are many many trees infected with citrus greening in the state of California, that are now growing but are still symptomless and spreading the disease to other healthy trees.  Millet

[fruitmentor]

I agree that there are many more HLB infected trees in California. It is likely to be outside of the current quarantine zone. Many DNA tests of citrus tissue samples outside of the quarantine zone have indicated that DNA of HLB is present, but not at a high enough level to count as HLB positive according to the current testing scheme. Unfortunately the current HLB tests do not work very well.