IMPORTANT: HPLVD

[bushdoc]

@mikeydoughnutjust keep popping seeds, all the best cannabis ever found was in a seed, decades of work with breeding,cuts and selection means if you pick the right breeder you get all that work in a seed. Maybe it's 10% not as good as an elite clone but there's a lot of the emperor's New clothes about all that shit. Just keep popping seeds from good breeders and be happy.

 

ETA, nearly every time I've taken cuts from someone they've come with mites so that's another reason not to bother

Edited February 12, 2022 by bushdoc

[Guest]

To help put people at ease a bit, I've had hlvd in my grow for a good three months.  I have been bleaching my snips between plants and so far everything looks clear.  It'll be a few years before I'm 100% certain nothing has been transferred, but the early signs are keeping your tools bleached is enough. 

 

[CHAN]

13 minutes ago, fatboy77 said:

@mikeydoughnut I don't think you understand mate.  Whether you pay for cuttings or not, it's going to affect you.  These seeds that you like hunting through, the breeders doing the work for you regularly pass cuttings between each other.  This is going to massively affect you too. 

This can stay dormant for years, so it's not so simple to avoid.  And Where's the greed in passing cuts between pals?  

It's more about keeping a genetic alive, so that someone in the future can create more beans for you to hunt through from fantastic genetics as a base. 

 

I’ve lost some brilliant  strains through only me having them. More people that hold a strain the more likely it will stick around. That’s probably why these skunk number 1 cuts are still about till this day. Everyone passed them about all over the country years ago. So glad that it’s about still as I rate the older cuts so much more than these modern cookie crosses. Preserving genetics in the weed game is so important. More so now than ever.

 

[ukbudz]

Brand new disposable razor blade and new gloves when moving between various mom's has meant it's only cuts brought in that had it.

 

The most recent ones were from my bro who got the cuts from the alien, he was told about the hlvd but didn't care, I even waited to see if they showed symptoms in his grow but none did, I brought rhinestone og, lemon tree and vintage blueberry in from him and the lemon tree showed symptoms straight away so was binned the rhinestone og has just started showing symptoms the last couple of weeks in flower, the blueberry vintage is spot on though but she will be kept separate for a few months and runs to be stress tested to see if she's infected also. 

 

Just goes to show it's not so straight forward when it comes to this. 

 

Good news is it doesn't spread through no till beds as I've ran seed plants in them and they grew and flowered fine. 

[FarmerPalmersNT]

4 minutes ago, ukbudz said:

Good news is it doesn't spread through no till beds as I've ran seed plants in them and they grew and flowered fine. 

 

 

I'd not be so sure there dude. It can stay dormant for a very long time. I think it's very unlikely indeed that it does, as dead plant tissue is likely to get destroyed along with the viroid pretty quickly. They aren't long lived out of plant cells. Equally I wouldn't be certain of that. 

 

There's a lot not yet known. Most transmission appears to be sap to sap but not exclusively so. Viroids are strange things and in some plants can remain completely asymptomatic.

 

Probably scare mongering a bit (they sell testing and cleaning services) but dark heart nursery have allegedly seen transmission from dispensary bugs to live plants through contact.

 

I would bet they were smashing ground bud into wounds but still...

 

Edited February 12, 2022 by FarmerPalmersNT

[ukbudz]

@FarmerPalmersNT yeah man my bad I probably should of said I've not noticed it in my beds. 

 

I've got some blue dream, London lemon Mac and mimosa in there at the moment so I'll keep a eye out .

[Devon Cream]

 couple lads round here are insta sluts thought they where rockstars with all there cali mums whole lot are fucked glad didn’t touch any of that cali shit off anyone 

[BilgePump]

Just had a thought ..

 

Rooting gel , even though it's common practice to decant yer clonex, rootit or whatever into a container to use yer still banging any number of freshly cut clones through the measured amount and I imagine that's a massive vector for contagion , especially if yer in the clone shifting business.

 

[Guest anarchycamp]

@BilgePump That was always the way I was taught. Ditched the rooting gels now, rarely notice much difference with rooting stims apart from a few % more guranteed

[blackpoolbouncer]

Fwiw I gave up using rooting stimulant years ago even in my normal day to day horticultural cuttings. 

99% strike without it so why bother but a very good point as to the bottle of clonex or whatever being a vector for disease 

[Yosser Hughes]

my bottle of clonex gel has a best before date 2010.........      still works like new but its more of a clonex water now not a gel..  ive dipped a fuk full of mixed cuttings in th pot....... over more than a decade ive not suffered any rash.     fuk me wats next

[Yosser Hughes]

bleeding canker broke out in the uk  ? 

[blackpoolbouncer]

You'll be getting the rash back is what will be next if you don’t take care when boyo from across the valley next gives you a snip of vrg's cookie mum 

 

Look after your mum's if you value them bud

Edited February 12, 2022 by blackpoolbouncer

[Yosser Hughes]

@blackpoolbouncer  ofcourse i value my mums ive had them several yrs bach,no rash coming here as im not importing any more cutts,im cleansed to fuk here now not even a gnat bothering me,so the way i see it im cooked,but i do have a cheese plant under way + ive taken a cutting just incase franco`s lemon cheese it is.   

 

 

 

[Yosser Hughes]

fuk me this is worst than COVID 19 ..........