Sounds horrific, JM.. sorta puts my situation into perspective. One in thirteen years isn't bad I guess (knock on wood)! I've grown vegetables semi-commercially in this region for just as long as I've grown cannabis and I've definitely seen new pests land on the scene in my 13+ years. Guess it stands to reason that diseases, viruses, etc would start to spread as well.
There sour diesel. No purple in the strain.. I got these seeds out of a bag of the S. D. this year. So I know what it looks like when ripe.. my son grew it indoors and it did not look like this
No I did not train. It's a banana kush from weed seeds express.. excellent seed ban k. This one I planted in ground end of May... It was showing some of the growing tips that black disease.. so I cut the whole branch off.. very difficult growing conditions. Due to humidity and bugs.. I'm running roots organic dry nutes and ffof soil. I'm not an expert grower. But I have pulled a few really good crops in the last 4 years.. but this weird disease that's hitting me and other growers , as i inderstand it..
So it doesn't get too cold here,, average is 60s at nite ,up to 80s in day. I put some phos rock down,, as it's august now and they are early stages of budding... I'm using Roots Organics dry nutes... Still getting some black sprouts
So it's mid August and I'm still getting the black sprouts,, but I did leave one alone and wanted to see if it would still flower. ,so half the tops are sprouting and there black and kinda stunted this pic is one of them... U can see it looks like crap. Their is a fuck ton of thrips and leafhoppers here. Not feasible to kill them all,, but I'm hitting plants with pure crop one and Amegan grow safe.., both are basically soybean and corn oil,, works well. But with this many environmental factors involved, it's a constant battle... Reward is some awesome sun grown organic weed if I can get em to the finish. The one I left alone just overall looks like a sick plant,, and come October, probably will get grey botrytis.. That's also another aggravating problem around harvest
You offer a lot of advice for obviously not experiencing it or knowing much about it .. Most of the stems on most of my plants have been affected , it is all on new growth tips .. NOTHING to do with genetics or temperatures or deficiencies .. The leafs are twisted and growth slows down .. I have been dealing with other new (ignorant) expert growers ridiculing me over this topic for many years, telling me I just don`t know what "fire" looks like .. I`d bet that most that have this issue are the ones like myself that try to do it all natural without pesticides .. I think the only way to go is to spray the plants from the get go with something that will prevent this which I believe is spread by the saliva of leaf hoppers ...
Yep. If I had to bet,, I think it's spread by either leafhoppers or thrips... OR, maybe it's hdlv... That's the problem if u don't have a pile of money to figure all this out.. but on the positive side. Most of my plants outgrew it when they went into flower this year,,
I hope mine can pull through it too . Will be spraying them next year with something that will stop leafhoppers ..
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Wow ,, I think you need to educate yourself .. I am not the one that spreads phytoplasma with my saliva .. Just no end to these know it all guys is there ?? And ,, it is then ,, not than ..
hahahaha..Wow ,, I think you need to educate yourself .. I am not the one that spreads phytoplasma with my saliva .. Just no end to these know it all guys is there ?? And ,, it is then ,, not than ..
Why are y'all beefing here..? I'm trying to get help with this problem and alert other growers to this problem... Most of growers nationwide have been hit with HDLV. I'm not sure if this is my problem here.. y'all bickering ain't helping.. just saying
no you started it..
