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Stupid move on my part especially after I cut clones of his stuff and mine at the same time.
I have a wookie in bloom and she has one branch dudded so maybe it's stem nematodes.
for now I will kill any and all infected.[/QUOTE
Stupid move on my part especially after I cut clones of his stuff and mine at the same time.
I have a wookie in bloom and she has one branch dudded so maybe it's stem nematodes.
for now I will kill any and all infected.
You didn't make a stupid move. The person that gave you those didn't have a chance to stop it. This is industry wide. People have been blaming broad mites and fusarium for this problem for years.
I wish it were as simple as those things or stem nematodes. They'd be a piece of cake compared to a virus. The whole country is infected - not every single garden, but the vast majority of appreciable vectors are seeing it routinely. It goes into seed easily, clones for sure. Information is pouring into my mailbox about this pathogen daily. It's basically everywhere.
I'm almost certain that this is viral. In a few weeks or a month we'll have pictures with SEMs and then we'll sequence it and put a name to this thing. This will get worse until everybody realizes and eventually admits that there is a central pathogen responsible for this dirty little problem plaguing the industry. People are going to fight this idea because the implications are extreme. It's bad.
Best thing you can do for now is to cull the obvious symptomatic individuals. GG4 is very susceptible. Consider it plant AIDS. Make Magic Johnson plants. Keep your beneficials pumping and run a painfully clean operation. Cull anything that looks at you sideways and plant at least 30% over what you need anticipating substantial losses. If you're in common soil, make sure you don't plant duds in your beds. Veg in buckets for as long as you can. All your plants have it. 2-30% will become symptomatic if you run a tight show. GG4 might be worse.
Those of us with labs will culture this out of existing genetics and make resistant strains but this will take months/years. We're in it for the long haul.
Please post your results or message me with any questions or observations. I'm actively studying this thing and no detail is too small or unimportant. Good luck.