Wow! Almost sounds like a commercial for Cleary's? Checked the website, can't even read what the ingredients are? You did not offer any "cure" that I noticed, so perhaps there is no cure, as I stated?? I don't think anyone knows how the "wilt" virus is spread? Airborne? Who knows? Some years it happens, some years it does not. BUT once it has affected a clematis, that's it for that year! Next year, a healthy plant starting out! Spraying a fungicide of any brand in the hole before planting the clematis, has yet to be studied!