In light of this issue it seems to me that the practice of soaking all your seeds together in a cup of water to start germination is a bad idea. If the fusarium is on the hull or shell of a particular seed the water soak could just spread it to them all.
I soak my seeds in 20%, 3% h202 and 80% water. Seeds love that shit. I imagine it would kill off any pathogens as well.
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obsoul33t I am not sure if it is the wool. I have taken a lot of cuts in wool and never had a dud from it. The only dud I ever had was
A) from JJ-NYC seedstock. white hashplant BX1.
B) a couple of branches dudded on probably a 4th gen clone after having the plant 2 years at least... that had been mom'd out already for months. She was a little root bound and severely stressed when this happened. I had taken a bunch of cuts from her to start a new mom, and one of the cuts must have been from a branch that was just starting to dud. I traced it back to the plant and it was obvious- you can see my pic earlier in this thread of side by side.
C) The dud plant grew better than the others in the bed. It took over half the damn canopy it was so vigorous, and the flowers of it had an OG structure completely different form the WHP, so much so that at first I thought I mixed up cuts, but that made no sense because I can ID every plant in the garden. The flowers had a VERY faint smell. kind of grassy, and were garbage.
D) I killed the mom off after seeing 2 large branches clearly unlike the rest of the plant. Small glossy leaves with tight nodes and different serrations. Took a couple cuts off the good part of the plant.
Never saw a dud after that.
Keep in mind that this plant was stressed. It also came from nobody. I grew it from seed and kept it. It did not show symptoms for 2 years. So this kind of fucks up the theory of it getting passed by clone don't you guys think?