MHG, check out this garlic when you get a chance. My susanville and the victor's survivor are sick. I have given both compost tea 3 times over a week. I sure hope this isn't a virus None of the other varieties seem to have it. First 3 pics are susanville, last one is victor

I Dave,

I think that's just how victor's survivor must be. Mine look like yours do. Never grew softnecks, so don't know. My hardnecks look great. I have a pic downloading, will show ya in a few minures.

Okay, here is my pic, per above comments. So what do you think? Virus or normal?

Wow, it looks just like mine. So, I guess we either cry together and bury our crops or MHG tells us "Don't worry, be happy"

Crap !!!! Don't ya just hate it when you type up a long-winded post only to find that you've dropped your connection when you hit the Post Now button......grrrrrrrr.

Mine looks pretty much the same as yours. It really stands out in the middle of all my hardnecks because of it's "yellowish" cast. It's always been that way for the 6-7 years that I have had it.

What we have is an otherwise healthy plant showing no signs of stress or heavy bug infestation. And we've not seeing it spread thru out our entire crop.

"IF" it is a virus.....there's nothing we can do about it now. Now don't panic; viruses are common to garlics. Some strains are more viral and damaging than others. The proof will be at harvest in how you decide to handle it.
I suggest you harvest anything that you don't think looks quite right last to facilitate isolating it from uninfected plants during your harvest, curing, and handling. You'll have to judge the quality of the bulbs as to whether it's a variety that you need to burn. At a very minimum all harvest and cleaning debre should be burned. Crop rotation is an important control measure in this scenerio.

BTW - Nice camera work, guys....

Howdy MHG! I feel better. I dug up one susanville for a barbecue on sunday and there was a small black rotten spot on the bottom of the round. I didn't pay much attention, just cut it out and sliced up the round. I will dig a few more and look closely. Ever see that with victor? The 2 varieties are in different beds.

all i can say is WOW, ya'll got it goin on,my garlic x dont look that good

Dave- A rotten spot...!? No, I've never experianced that.

I know that Daves got a dilemma, but ive finally got a camera and want to show my garlic before it starts to get ugly,lol

Sorry it wasnt weeded first.

Nice looking patch you got. I see a little frost damage to your leaf tips, too like mine got. What variety is it?

I dug up one of the worst looking of the susanville bulbs this morning. It looks just fine. Starting to develop cloves and smells my office up wonderfully.

Hey Dave,

Sure is good to know that one didn't have a black spot on it!

I'm gonna wait a bit, before I dig one of my softnecks up for a peek and eat. hahah

My leaves on my Music look exactly like those pictures...

Over the years I screwed up the variety...but I know I had German white, and German red for hardnecks, and lord knows what variety of softneck...but I have planted seed from the biggest cloves for a few years...so now its just hardneck and softneck...deep sixed the elephant garlic...dont use it.

Didn't take any pics of mine, but so far so good. Only a few scapes recently seen and (thank goodness) no streaking of leaves like some of you guys & gals.

I lost a nearly 2/3 of a crop about 4 years ago to white rot which I found out about when I questioned my garlic supplier as to why my bulbs had rotted at the roots and the necks rotted from the bulb. It prompted some further research at the time. (Duh!)

So I pulled this from my files. The pic of the garlic leaves seems to resemble some of the problem leaves posted here. http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r584101311.html Since the yellow-streaked symptoms seem to be affecting so many folks in different areas, it seems less likely that the cause was some bad stock or soil borne. More likely, aphids or thrip-spread mosaic virus. Aphids and thrips know no state lines and don't discriminate.

And here's the main page listing other garlic diseases and insect damage:
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.onion-and-garlic.html

As MHG said, most times the bulbs aren't affected. But you won't really know that till you harvest them all.

Hope some of this helps.