new infectious cannabis pathogen across the nation.

[memnoch]

apparently 90% of the plants in California are infected with a pathogen. and it's not just there from what i have seen. i new i was bad luck but dang. i decided to finally grow and this happens. I'm sorry everyone i should have known better. you can all blame me for this.
im not even joking im probably to blame for this. nothing seems to go right anymore. i bet mine already have it.

 

[Mothman]

apparently 90% of the plants in California are infected with a pathogen. and it's not just there from what i have seen. i new i was bad luck but dang. i decided to finally grow and this happens. I'm sorry everyone i should have known better. you can all blame me for this.
im not even joking im probably to blame for this. nothing seems to go right anymore. i bet mine already have it.

Ugh. Where’d you learn that? 90%??? That’s a big number.

 

[memnoch]

Ugh. Where’d you learn that? 90%??? That’s a big number.

yes it is and a scary one. but here is the info.
HLVd was first identified at a California pot farm in 2019, and it’s now infected at least 90% of California’s cannabis grows, according to a 2021 estimate. It’s spreading globally, and a recent scientific paper declared the pathogen was the “biggest concern for cannabis” growers worldwide.
it's on this site as well. https://www.thcfarmer.com/news/wide...es-over-90-of-californias-cannabis-farms.371/

 

[1diesel1]

yes it is and a scary one. but here is the info.
HLVd was first identified at a California pot farm in 2019, and it’s now infected at least 90% of California’s cannabis grows, according to a 2021 estimate. It’s spreading globally, and a recent scientific paper declared the pathogen was the “biggest concern for cannabis” growers worldwide.
it's on this site as well. https://www.thcfarmer.com/news/wide...es-over-90-of-californias-cannabis-farms.371/

It’s not the end of the world,
Tissue cultures are the ticket if you have this issue.

 

[Mothman]

yes it is and a scary one. but here is the info.
HLVd was first identified at a California pot farm in 2019, and it’s now infected at least 90% of California’s cannabis grows, according to a 2021 estimate. It’s spreading globally, and a recent scientific paper declared the pathogen was the “biggest concern for cannabis” growers worldwide.
it's on this site as well. https://www.thcfarmer.com/news/wide...es-over-90-of-californias-cannabis-farms.371/

Thanks for that. I’ve been concerned about plant epidemics as I’ve come to learn how much crossing occurs in cannabis gardens.

Maybe we need a secure vault in the arctic to preserve old and landrace varieties, like what’s been done for food crops to preserve genetic diversity.

 

[Deadstill]

It is an issue of concern and it is spreading across many facilities in the nation as we speak.

I posted a little bit about this in a previous thread here - https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/is-this-the-hop-latent-virus.135533/post-2857023 and https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/cannabis-diseases-of-concern.148790/#post-2957147

I attended a seminar about this viroid at last year's CannaCon.

It is very expensive to treat and get rid of it. They say it's more cost effective to prevent it than it is to try to get rid of it, as the only real way to get rid of it from an infected plant is tissue culture, and the only way to clean a facility is to literally wash everything with a 10% bleach solution.

The biggest problem is the fact that it is so hard to detect or diagnose. A lot of facilities have this viroid and don't even know it.

 

[BB22]

Just two weeks to stop the curve…

 

[StonedAgain]

What are the symptoms?

 

[memnoch]

What are the symptoms?

Low THC was the one that caught my eye. Like really low. Without the culture you won't know until it's done and you try it i believe no real telling signs while it grows

 

[StonedAgain]

Low THC was the one that caught my eye. Like really low. Without the culture you won't know until it's done and you try it i believe no real telling signs while it grows

Weird.

 

[Mothman]

Fucking Nixon again! From the grave!!