Tobor the 8th Man
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My Chemdog D has a mottled variegated look to it's leaves, especially after cloning. I can get it corrected and get the new leaves green and the old leaves improved before I put it under 12/12. It seems to just be a nutrient hog. My The White cut also has this sometimes to a much lesser degree. They flower fine, yield good and produce very dank pot. It just takes a bit longer veg to get them looking good. However, the symptoms can show up again when you start the flush or back off the cal/mag too soon. But it is always in the back of my mind "Do I have TMV?". The are people who say the Chemdog D has the virus. Or at least some circles of the Chemdog D have TMV. They say this because it has the symptoms I mentioned.
Now I have to say when other people show their Chemdog D pictures with the bad leaves they don't even have it 1/4 of what mine looks like sometimes. The leaves seem healthy except for the washed out mottled color that has shades of like green, grey and sometimes almost white or silver splotches. So I figure if any Chemdog D cut ever had TMV mine should be the one.
I saw on IC where a guy with the Chemdog D was tired of people wondering if it had it and even though his had no signs he did a test and it tested negative for TMV.
So I decided I would send away for the test kit. This is from an agricultural lab. They sell test kits for people to save their crops and are not cannabis related. These guys are very well respected and there stuff is tested and works and has no hype involved just results.
I bought 5 Immunostrips for $27.50. They sell 5 or 24 for $105.
The test strips are foolproof. If no lines show up the test is invalid and the sample was no good. If the top control line is present the test is valid and negative. If there is another line (marker) under the control line then the test is positive.
No if you get a positive test there are 5 other viruses that will test positive but they have very different symptoms. But still to be sure you would have to buy a $400 assay tray kit to further find out what one it is.
If it is negative you don't have any of them. Well the results for my Chemdog D using several samples of leaves from 2 leaves with full blown syptoms were...drum roll......... NEGATIVE!
There is no more doubt for me. I just have a nut hog Chemdog D. It could also just be a genetic trait in the Chemdog D. I made a cross of Chemdog D and Original Haze. I have one haze leaning female and one Chemdog D leaning female. The Chemdog D pheno has 2 branches out of 8 that has the symptoms. This is when I got worried and thought my Chemdog D had TMV because TMV can be carried through a seed. I don't know if I would have tossed it but I would have had a big decision.
But the test was NEGATIVE! :banana:
Now I have to say when other people show their Chemdog D pictures with the bad leaves they don't even have it 1/4 of what mine looks like sometimes. The leaves seem healthy except for the washed out mottled color that has shades of like green, grey and sometimes almost white or silver splotches. So I figure if any Chemdog D cut ever had TMV mine should be the one.
I saw on IC where a guy with the Chemdog D was tired of people wondering if it had it and even though his had no signs he did a test and it tested negative for TMV.
So I decided I would send away for the test kit. This is from an agricultural lab. They sell test kits for people to save their crops and are not cannabis related. These guys are very well respected and there stuff is tested and works and has no hype involved just results.
I bought 5 Immunostrips for $27.50. They sell 5 or 24 for $105.
The test strips are foolproof. If no lines show up the test is invalid and the sample was no good. If the top control line is present the test is valid and negative. If there is another line (marker) under the control line then the test is positive.
No if you get a positive test there are 5 other viruses that will test positive but they have very different symptoms. But still to be sure you would have to buy a $400 assay tray kit to further find out what one it is.
If it is negative you don't have any of them. Well the results for my Chemdog D using several samples of leaves from 2 leaves with full blown syptoms were...drum roll......... NEGATIVE!
There is no more doubt for me. I just have a nut hog Chemdog D. It could also just be a genetic trait in the Chemdog D. I made a cross of Chemdog D and Original Haze. I have one haze leaning female and one Chemdog D leaning female. The Chemdog D pheno has 2 branches out of 8 that has the symptoms. This is when I got worried and thought my Chemdog D had TMV because TMV can be carried through a seed. I don't know if I would have tossed it but I would have had a big decision.
But the test was NEGATIVE! :banana: