Hello everyone! I’m in the process of re-opening my garden after a couple years hiatus and was alarmed to find out one of the clone sellers I had purchased from was spreading HLVD infected cuts.
I left my garden area a bit of a mess, and I’m sweeping up old plant material and throwing away old used pots now.
I plan to wipe down the surfaces of my tents with a bleach solution afterwards, how much further do I need to go? It’s unclear to me how long the viroid can survive on surfaces, dead leaves, etc. Do I need to replace exhaust ducting, things like that? Will any scraps of dead leaves I miss jeopardize the health of my garden?
I’m sorry that happened to you, but the HLVD problem is a lot more widespread than people will have you believe. Sadly, it can even infect seeds as well. Cuts from an infected plant are pretty much 100% infected. Seeds from an infected mother are something like 58%-85%. Even lower percentage from HLVD positive male pollen, but still a possibility. Every new bit of genetics introduced to a garden should be isolated and tested prior to introduction. In 2023 a survey showed somewhere around 90% of all CA facilities were infected.
Definitely the way to go. Need a solution of at least 1:5 bleach. 20% bleach. So if you did a 1 gallon bucket of water, you’d use something like 3 cups of bleach to that 1 gallon of water.
Toss anything that touched the plants, especially roots, that you cannot get squeaky clean.
~6 months on dry flower seems to be the going rate last I checked.
I wouldn’t think so. If they’re exhausting through a carbon filter you should be fine I’d think Intake could be more of a thing though…
Yeah it’s possible. Touching cured flower that’s infected and then touching your plants can spread it.
, here you can find more info …
TUMI says bleach is effective, hard to say what the correct info is when it comes to cannabis.
I wouldn’t think so. If they’re exhausting through a carbon filter you should be fine I’d think