Hi,
Curious if anyone has experience with a plant or grow being affected by a virus?
I bought some clones that I somewhat neglected by waiting several days to transplant, planted some too deep thinking adventitious roots would grow. Wasn't checking pH or conductivity of tap water, irregular feeding. It has been a while since I've grown and they certainly could have used more attention.
One or more of the older plants started to get yellowing and dying leaves from the bottom up, until dead. In an unusual experiment (not necessarily intentional) I noticed that a root ball of an infected plant laid on top of a root ball of a healthy plant can cause the healthy plant to become sick and die.
A transplant to hydro did not save the dying plants, it almost looks like the older plants died from age although it could be too severe root removal, and the other younger plants in shared hydro do not appear sick at least at the moment.
Aside from these observations and an irregular watering/feeding/organic mite control schedule I'm not too sure what it could be. Bugs in the roots, an infection, maybe just old neglected plants?
A big concern is whether or not, and/or how to, quarantine all of this, or move all plants/mothers outside. The last thing I want is for my new seedlings to somehow become infected by these old plants.
Edit: Plants that did not survive may well have been my own doing entirely. Grower error could be the cause, not any kind of virus. I planted some with the rooting cube way beneath the soil line thinking adventitious roots would grow but I don't think that works well with cannabis.
Cannabis Clone Care
https://darkheartnursery.com/news/cannabis-clone-care/
Curious if anyone has experience with a plant or grow being affected by a virus?
I bought some clones that I somewhat neglected by waiting several days to transplant, planted some too deep thinking adventitious roots would grow. Wasn't checking pH or conductivity of tap water, irregular feeding. It has been a while since I've grown and they certainly could have used more attention.
One or more of the older plants started to get yellowing and dying leaves from the bottom up, until dead. In an unusual experiment (not necessarily intentional) I noticed that a root ball of an infected plant laid on top of a root ball of a healthy plant can cause the healthy plant to become sick and die.
A transplant to hydro did not save the dying plants, it almost looks like the older plants died from age although it could be too severe root removal, and the other younger plants in shared hydro do not appear sick at least at the moment.
Aside from these observations and an irregular watering/feeding/organic mite control schedule I'm not too sure what it could be. Bugs in the roots, an infection, maybe just old neglected plants?
A big concern is whether or not, and/or how to, quarantine all of this, or move all plants/mothers outside. The last thing I want is for my new seedlings to somehow become infected by these old plants.
Edit: Plants that did not survive may well have been my own doing entirely. Grower error could be the cause, not any kind of virus. I planted some with the rooting cube way beneath the soil line thinking adventitious roots would grow but I don't think that works well with cannabis.
Cannabis Clone Care
https://darkheartnursery.com/news/cannabis-clone-care/
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