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Originally Posted by tomf
...I think it is even worse that they are not saying which stores carried the diseased plants and which producer /supplier shipped them out. I think we deserve to know that information.
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We probably do deserve to know, but I think for this particular event, it probably also doesn't matter any more. People often buy plants from a store that is a drive of an hour or more from their home, and then the spores from the infected plants can spread from their home garden for miles in whatever direction the wind is blowing. So even if the plants were purchased in Plattsburgh, they could be growing and spreading disease spores three counties away from there by now. The areas near the stores involved aren't the only ones affected any more. I think a general alert rather than naming specific stores is really the best way to go at this point, just so no one gets a false sense of security if their garden isn't in one of those locations.