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Most phenos got more or less some malformation and discoloration with their leaves on start up.
4 first weeks of veg, two phenos were showing what could be a viroid like TMV or genetic issue with some of the fan of the leaves.
But may be they are healing now, most of the new growth seem to no longer showing sign.
Few phenotypes seem to be more leaning toward sativa than the others.
Overall not really homogeneous.Different shade of green amongst phenotypes.
One pheno with whorled phyllotaxy with main cola that self divided in two near the top, two other phenos also have some secondary branches that self divided in two.
overall some on them already starting fading and not as healthy as i'd like for this stage.
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beautiful ladies my friend. i dont think you have much to worry about at all.
there are a lot of mosaic viruses that can infect cannabis ime, a lot more then just TMV. Most are bordeline completely harmless, and some are even desirable because of the way it expresses physical traits and forces eye catching variegation in ornamental cultivars of plant.
Tbh, i chuckle with how quickly and willingly people are to toss around the letters TMV. Most of you guys will never even see that virus lol.
TMV is usually almost always fatal if it gets on a plant it can actually infect. Most cannabis plants wont actually even catch it when exposed, though. Especially if thriving and doesnt have a heaviily inbred genealogy giving it an easy, wide open back door to the plant. Cannabis is not tmv's preferred species lol. Just like you probably wont find hemp russet mites on your tomatoes, even though its possible. Theyre probably tomato russets if theyre on your tomato plants.
My plants all caught a mosiac virus from a variegated golden rod hedge line last year. Caused some skunk-stripe chlorosis on a few plants for a few weaks, couple twisted growths, ran its course and disappeared. The only thing i am absolutely, 100% sure of, is that it was
not tobacco mosaic.
The vast majority of mosaics will actually run their course and go away if the plant is in thrive mode. Just because theres some vaqriagation, chlopropsis, or twisting doesnt mean its TMV, its actually
very unlikely that it is, tbh. TMV will run a young, or early flowering plant into the ground headfirst, itll wrap itself up like its playing twister, pretty quickly, and then itll probably die. By this point, any of your directly related plants are probably also playing "twister to death" right in front of you lol. TMV is like russet mites. Its a shut things down, clean, disinfect, start over kind of thing, or youll be struggling with it on and off forever if you actually catch it, and have susceptible lineages youd like to keep growing if you dont.
Some mosaics will sit dormant in a plant, then express some chlorosis or skunk striping occasionally if they slip out of thrive mode a bit. My mango nectar does that. She has some kind of mosaic that only expresses if she drifts out of thrive mode. My other plants are either totally asymptomatic, or completely immune to it all together.
If TMV was the only mosic virus, it wouldnt be called tobacco mosaic, it would just be called mosaic lol. Ime its one of the least common mosaics cannabis catches, just one of the most damaging when it does. Ive nly ever seen legit TMV on plants inbred to the point of a single expression within the entire genotype. Plants with total and complete genetic segregation. But thats an evolutionary dead end that only exists to fuel profit margins though anyway, so to be expected.
im 99% sure there is a cannabis specific mosaic virus now though too, and most of us have seen it more then once, and went about our business because it doesnt actually cause problems for us. Just a skunk stipe or variegated leaf here and there. viruses prefer not to kill their host, that tends to only happen right when something jumps ship to a new species. The pandemic was a great example. ach recurring strain that out competes the old is more contagious, but less lethal.
Thats what makes a successful virus. Easily infected, but causing as little damage as possible to the host organism.
imho, if tmv is even still a thing anymore, its only going to hurt highly gene segregated plants, which imho should have NO place in a gene pool thats becoming very threatened by disease anyway, for obvious reasons that will probably start to validate themselves heavily over the next decade or two.
TONS of weed up north.
