Please help im not sure if this is a virus or what but almost all plants showing signs. got a little bit of mites, thrips and fungus gnats. edges of leaves curling up and leaves blistering somewhat. new growth coming out yellow very rough and hard not brittle. The pic are showing a plant that have been outside for past 2 weeks. some of the leaves just curl down like cupping. My buddys plants all showed same symptoms and surely all either died or grew slowly with crappy yields. please help . i been letting the plants dry out correctly so i cant see it being overwatering.
Is this Viral?
- Thread starter Love2herb
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just cant find anything on new growth yellowing and blistering . to me looks like mosaic but i cant be sure. gonna try and take most of the plants that look infested outdoor and see what the outcome may be. id hate to haul all my plants up the mountain just to find out it is the mosaic virus and my yeilds are shit. im sure someone can help.
Nirvana_Papaya
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I had that happen with one of my plants a few years ago, it looked sad and never recovered, it was always 3 steps behind the rest of the plants. So I chopped it. I too never found out what was wrong with it. It doesn't look like TMV tho. 
BagseedSamurai
Active member
Not mosaic.
I took some to an outdoor spot hoping they would fix. They lived for like three weeks then died. The ones not showng symptoms are thriving and far away from infected ones. The outdoors plants were getting some decent rain in just happy frog soil. Since I can't figure it out I'm gonna scrap this grow well just the indoor. Disinfect everything and take cuts from non infected plants. I know you guys don't think it's viral but I seen too many plants die to think otherwise. A month ago everything was optimal. Spread like wild fire especially when trhips showed up. I think also by not sterilizing scissors when taking cuts.
BagseedSamurai
Active member
Hey,if you know something we don't (after all, it's YOUR grow) then I yield the floor.
Hope things turn out well.
Hope things turn out well.
OMountainMix
Member
hubby always says it's not worth wasting the space to keep a sick plant. i usually try to nurse them along, and can usually manage to keep about 50% of sick plants and get them to kick ass and produce in flowering, but it's really annoying to put something in flower and it can't handle the stress b/c it's not a properly healthy plant, so i'd say ditch em and start over . . . . .
KMothsi
Member
Hey L2H,
First, if and when you get some cuts from yer buddy, make sure that you have completely cleaned your room, and solved your bug problem. It's not worth bringing new plants into an infested environment. It might be under control at the moment, but it can get pretty messy, pretty fast. I'd neem anything coming into my garden as well, just to be safe. Starting a grow with bugs, especially mites and thrips, is putting yourself behind the 8-ball before you've even started.
As for the plants above, I too experienced something like this once. The new growth yellowing looks identical to what i had to deal with. In my case, the problem was that my house pipes were old and seeping trace amts. of copper and lead into the h20. Are you using RO or municipal water? If your friend had the same problem, maybe chlorine/chloramine, copper, lead, or another contaminant is the problem.
If it's happening time and time again, across several strains, and your friend has the same problem, try to find the variables that are common to every grow. There can't be that many factors shared between your buddy, and your several attempts, so narrowing down the problem should be made easier this way.
As a cheap experiment, I might try picking up some tomato or hops seeds (both very cheap and readily available) and testing your grow strategy on these plants. Not only can you buy a bunch and run some experiments, it costs way less, and doesn't hurt as much to mess up.
tl;dr--- See if another plant will grow with your technique, I know it's circuitous, but it'd be interesting for sure.
First, if and when you get some cuts from yer buddy, make sure that you have completely cleaned your room, and solved your bug problem. It's not worth bringing new plants into an infested environment. It might be under control at the moment, but it can get pretty messy, pretty fast. I'd neem anything coming into my garden as well, just to be safe. Starting a grow with bugs, especially mites and thrips, is putting yourself behind the 8-ball before you've even started.
As for the plants above, I too experienced something like this once. The new growth yellowing looks identical to what i had to deal with. In my case, the problem was that my house pipes were old and seeping trace amts. of copper and lead into the h20. Are you using RO or municipal water? If your friend had the same problem, maybe chlorine/chloramine, copper, lead, or another contaminant is the problem.
If it's happening time and time again, across several strains, and your friend has the same problem, try to find the variables that are common to every grow. There can't be that many factors shared between your buddy, and your several attempts, so narrowing down the problem should be made easier this way.
As a cheap experiment, I might try picking up some tomato or hops seeds (both very cheap and readily available) and testing your grow strategy on these plants. Not only can you buy a bunch and run some experiments, it costs way less, and doesn't hurt as much to mess up.
tl;dr--- See if another plant will grow with your technique, I know it's circuitous, but it'd be interesting for sure.
