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Leafhoppersanyone curious about the suspects/culprits.. these were just in the last couple of days.
Quick googling maybe the smaller one is a female and the bigger one... bigger one I see most of and my yellow sticky pads catch a lot of them, but this particular one was really big.
Leafhoppers, and if you get seeds from plants that happen to make it, the virus will be passed on in the seeds.
Its called a Phytoplasma Disease, and is passed by certain insects, and some trees harbor the infection, and infect the insects. Who transmit it to your plants. This disease is also systemic, and infects all of the cells.
My buddy lost a strain he had for 23 years to this plague.
If you smoke it, and the plant has been affected, even a little, youre smoking a parasitic bacteria/phytoplasma.
Most of the time from my buddies experience, the mothers fuckers grow really nice in veg, and as soon as they start to flower they go south. Some live, some dont. Some seemingly come out of it, and everything else in between. Most of the time though they are a total waste.
Id never smoke it myself.
Same issue here and lot of rain here in Ontario north of you too. I found this (see pic)but it's a long shot. What does everyone think? Note part about soggy soilUpstate NY, first year growing, outdoor. 4 different strains from clones from a grower who’s been doing this about 6-7 years, I’m not sure he really “knows” too much, but he does have a few years of experience and seems to know enough to grow under normal circumstances for our area. I don’t really know too much about what I’m doing yet myself, but I’m putting in some time to do research when I can. I have two plants that are the same strain (Banana Kush), and they both have this as far as I can tell. Some info I do have:
It’s been HEAVY rain early on, I only had to water a couple days a week at most in June/July. My soil is pretty sandy, but the grow area has been supplemented with various bagged soils/peat and mixed in. When I first planted them, I used home compost in the holes around the roots. I’ve been slowly increasing the fertilizer throughout the season as I felt more confident I wasn’t overdoing it. Started with a gallon of fox farm grow big mixed to the heavy feeding dilution every other day for 5 plants, then two gallons, I’m now mixing half/half that and fox farm tiger bloom for 2 days in a row so far, planning on every day for a week or so, then full bloom fertilizer, unless it starts to look like I’m overdoing it. This is only on a few branches of two plants, and I’ve been fighting with waiting it out or cutting it off. I’m worried if I cut it, it will spread, and if I don’t cut it, it will spread…not sure what the right move here is. These pics are a couple days old, I can take more of anyone’s interested in more detail.
I also just started feeding bloom so maybe this will clear up in the next week. Very strange because the guy at my local grow store says he has seen it a few times this year too. I can say the one plant that has it bad is in the path of a down spout from roof making it more wet. All same strain. I don’t think it's a surface mold because it doesn't wash off. Is it the rains low PH and locking out the soil do to the massive amount of rain? who knows... let's try to keep this updated. Thanks for reply. cheersI have read that it might be phosphorus, that’s what led me to start increasing the nutrients slowly. It went away early on; then came back. My experiment this week is water with nutrients only, NO plain water until I see something happen, good or bad. I might be fooling myself a as it’s only been a couple days since I decided to try that, but it looks a little better after 3 days so far of this test. I’m making 2 gallons of 1/2 half veg and 1/2 bloom for 5 plants about 4-5 ft high, every day, planning on about a week or so just to test it. 3 plants look fine, the two that are the same strain have that purpling.
HI Dino,Quit being confused by everybody's post take a Horticultural class at your nearest agricultural based University. And your plants aren't your lover so don't finger them they don't like to be touched they don't like the oils of your fingers just listen to what they have to say and then you'll know what's wrong with them
Is this flu for cannabis. what the hell is going on I wonder.Uhgg. Same fuckin problem. No answers yet huh? I looked all over Google, and it seems the bacterial infection from leaf hoppers is just a guess from general forum growers. Looks to be the best guess though. I have a plant that is absolutely covered with the black stuff. Like 60 bud sites.
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