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Leafs white / extremely light green discoloration

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Leafs white / extremely light green discoloration

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(If I've posted this in the incorrect place please let me know and I apologise, I wasnt sure where to post this)

Hello,
This is my first grow and I've run into a problem.
As can be seen from the picture the leafs on my plants are all to some extent going white / very pale green.

I currently growing expert seeds gorrila glue auto, Royal seeds cookies Gelato auto and Barney seed Zkittles Gorilla auto (I know this is too much for a small tent like mine but, I have no faith that all three will make it the whole way.).

I'm growing in a 2*4ft tent, in 5 gal fabric containers in a 60/40 mix of perlite and cana coco, using half strength cana schedule on a light feed. I check ec & PH of resoivur before fertagatiom and it is about 0.8 and a PH of 5.9 I then, check run of and PH is 5.8-5.9 and an EC of 0.67ish.
Once a week I hand water,
I had to once flush with Florakleen as the PH was dropping and the EC rising but after one flush it was back to normal.

I'm still working on the fertagation schedule but I'm feeding 5% per feed, and trying to dial in the spacing to get from that 10-20% run off.
The tent is always between 21-25°C and a humidity of 60-75 RH (I live in a swamp like country and this is ambient humidity, I have a dehumidifier but it struggles to pull it down)


I'm using a viparspectra 2024 xs1500 (250W) at 30% and a height of 26" which gives at the leafs height with the side zipped, a tested with a tester of 205PPFD (I have just increased this from about 180), on a 20/4 schedule.

I know I am doing something wrong but I can't find any other pictures of plants like this so can't adjust it, is it genetic on the auto side? or how am I mucking up ?

Leafs white  exremly light green discoloration
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The streaking is called chlorosis or variegation. In cannabis it's usually caused by one of numerous mosaic viruses. The deformed leaves probably indicate it's either a more serious one like Tobacco mosaic or the plant has a sensitivity to mosaics. Tbh could be either one.


If you have other plants without symptoms isolate this one. Sometimes they grow out of it, sometimes they wont and will stay stunted and deformed or it will get worse. Mosaics spread very quickly between plants. Some plants will be hit harder then others, and some not at all.

A mosic virus of some kind infected all of my plants at my outdoor patch. Caught it from a golden rod bush that came down with vein chlorosis, also usually caused by a mosic virus. All but two of my plants are asymptomatic, so in my case highly doubtful its tobacco mosaic (TMV). The two just display some chlorotic variegation like the streaking on your leaves. One of those two plants came down with septoria it caught from wind blown tree leaf fall. And now the mosaic is actually doing a few deformed leaves here and there in that one too. But the plant was mostly fighting it off fine before the septoria.

Usually though, by the time you notice you have a mosaic, all your plants have it though. That's how it usually works ime. Just one of those things i try not to bug myself about much because it's often a "what can ya do" kinda thing.
 
The streaking is called chlorosis or variegation. In cannabis it's usually caused by one of numerous mosaic viruses. The deformed leaves probably indicate it's either a more serious one like Tobacco mosaic or the plant has a sensitivity to mosaics. Tbh could be either one.


If you have other plants without symptoms isolate this one. Sometimes they grow out of it, sometimes they wont and will stay stunted and deformed or it will get worse. Mosaics spread very quickly between plants. Some plants will be hit harder then others, and some not at all.

A mosic virus of some kind infected all of my plants at my outdoor patch. Caught it from a golden rod bush that came down with vein chlorosis, also usually caused by a mosic virus. All but two of my plants are asymptomatic, so in my case highly doubtful its tobacco mosaic (TMV). The two just display some chlorotic variegation like the streaking on your leaves. One of those two plants came down with septoria it caught from wind blown tree leaf fall. And now the mosaic is actually doing a few deformed leaves here and there in that one too. But the plant was mostly fighting it off fine before the septoria.

Usually though, by the time you notice you have a mosaic, all your plants have it though. That's how it usually works ime. Just one of those things i try not to bug myself about much because it's often a "what can ya do" kinda thing.
Thank you very much for your reply.

That's a bummer, is there anything I can do to help them?, how would they have caught it?, it's in a indoor tent, is it likely it came from the Coco ?

I haven't smoked tobacco or other since starting this grow.
 
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