Little light just went off. I used Giberillic Acids in the eighties, I too worked in a nursery, and remeber that the effect did produce male flowers (stress induced) and..... I remeber a varigated effect in the leaves....hmmm
I read about it in a Marijuana Cultivators Book published in the 70's.
BTW. i thought you cant patent natural compounds that occur in plants. Thats why pharma is pursuing synthetic analogs. ???????
The giberillic acid seem to induce plant auxins at the site of topical contact.
A bunch of cells would elongate and "bend" the plant in 90 deg angle away from the application site. I found it actually induced stretch but i was just a baby mad scientist then...
Also, the mosaic mutations appear to be reticulated blotches, not serpentine paterns, the squigly patterns are usually leafminers or thrip-a-pillars.
yeah bbing, if they infuse genetics from another plant spicies then it's no longer a natural occuring oganisim, and therefore can be coded and patented.... evil greedy fucks.
if its just a virus the heating may work if genetic it ain't going anywhere period.