viral contamination in various plants on property

[thatonedude]

can homemade worm castings harbor a viral infection? i have been feeding my worm bin bits of squash and cucumbers from the garden. now pretty much all of those feeder plants are showing symptoms of a mosaic virus. ive been feeding my plants these castings and even mixed into the soil mix. every plant whose roots have come into contact with this mix has shown signs of what people here call tobacco mosaic virus.

it doest seem to to be hurting the plants other than the one startied directly in the mix which lont live long and don't grow past the first set of true leaves before they dry to a crisp and fall apart when touched. still deep green with some strange yellowing.

i have used this mix with great success with peppers, tomatoes, and paw paw trees with no problems at all. so it seems it has to be a virus because it doesn't affect other species with similar nutrient requirements.

i also used two year old compost with all the compost material coming from that same piece of ground the diseased veggie garden is in now.

so i am thinking that my property is pretty much ruined for ever collecting usable compost from for several years to come.

how long should i wait to let the virus subside before i can start using my wastes? i have a lot of it. or is this going to be a permanent thing?

 

[VerdantGreen]

Cucumber mosaic virus is not the same as TMV which cana plants can get. hard to say for sure, especially without pics, but if your mix is rich in nutrients it could have burnt the seedlings.

basically 9 out of 10 plant problems that people put down to mosiac virus are nurient deficiency or something else. people are keen to hang the problems on a virus when its most likely somehing else. tomato/pepper seedlings are more tolerant of a rich soil as seedlings than some canna strains

VG

 

[thatonedude]

ok so im popping a few beans again this mix only im diluting it down a lot with pertlite, so if it is just too hot for seedlings then they shouldn't have any symptoms upon germination. but if its a virus they will. at least that's what im thinking

 

[VerdantGreen]

i would add some peat moss to it as well.

 

[thatonedude]

im hoping that its just too hot. is it possible though for a plant virus to be transmitted through composting infected plant material either through worms or traditional compost piles?

 

[thatonedude]

after a lot of reading I think the source of my problems were mites. Cyclamens, to be exact. or some other tiny mite that my 17x loupe couldn't see. sprayed with neem and introduced some homegrown predatory mites that were hanging out in the catch pan of my worm bin and all new growth is healthy and some of the discoloration has reversed.

so has anyone actually ever had a positive result for any mosaic virus, from a indoor marijuana garden? everything ive read here and other places where tests were prformed to id viral infection came back neg.

 

[Mikell]

Can you post pics of the cyclamen damage?

 

[VerdantGreen]

are you sure they didnt just get over the shock of the hot soil and start growing better?

 

[thatonedude]

pretty sure. it worked on seedlings as well as more mature plants. I had https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?threadid=286021ad whatever it was