They gave it 8% chance of being spread by seed, but it didn’t say if that was if the male or female or both were infected. You are supposed to toss the plant, that’s the easiest way to deal with a suspected case.
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Agreed. I would’ve tossed it anyway, even if it was female. Don’t like to take chances of anything spreading. I think it was just to satisfy my own curiosity 
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That’s really interesting 
makes me wish I would’ve experimenting just to see for myself. Then again, if I did that every time I was curious to see the results, I’d never have any weed to smoke 
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Yep, that’s why I didn’t get a test.
That costs even more loot! I did buy a home tissue culture kit, but I don’t have the skills or environment to to meristem TC.
The problem is, if I can’t test for it how do I know it is gone? I think my best course of action is to eliminate my plant stock and start over from seed.
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Damn that is truly unfortunate I’m sorry to hear that
That sucks but it might be the best move.
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Just spitballing but I think a virus could easily ride along from mother plant to seed. As a seed starts as a whole cell, cytoplasm and all, from the mother plant. Probably less likely to come via pollen as usually during fertilization events only the DNA contents of the sperm/pollen nucleus gets transferred. Versus a full merging of the egg and sperm cells.
Now if it was a retrovirus then it could still be transferred in the DNA of the pollen.
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Well, technically, it is a viriod, not a virus… The difference is a viroid does not encode proteins and lacks a lipid layer. 
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Would you need to go as far as dumping your soil from the beds too? Or should starting from seed be sufficient?
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Good question. I don’t think I have to get rid of the soil.
From everything I read, I’m pretty sure it needs a host to reproduce because it is a viroid, and lacks that protective lipid layer.
It’s transmissable via plant sap and only survives on surfaces for about two hours.
I have already added sterilizing tools with 10% bleach and washing hands before handling plants to my SOPs. Its pretty hard to remember the hand washing part.
Dark Heart Nursery has a three part article describing the viriod and treatments. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
Some things I found shocking.
- Seeds transmit it at about a 5% rate.
- After pruning an infected plant, it was transmitted to up to 8 plants that were later pruned.
- It can transfer from infected dried bud to a plant via the hands!
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Anyone else have a little bit of a bad taste in their mouth from learning that Dark Heart likely contributed to the spread of HLV before they realized they were transporting infected clones…and now they’re one of the main places to get your plants tested and remidiated?
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Those notill beds are awesome but I’d screw that shit up big time.
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Oooooh really? Accepted!
So what’s this about a helmet collection? Star Wars? Medieval times? Skate? Crash test dummy? Pith?
I heard of a viroid in your midst…
Whoa! The pathoseek?
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I gotta toss in my two cents here, about 3 yrs ago I had a plant that displayed that TMV symptoms, all of it! I didn’t take any chances on waiting for tests or such…just isolated and killed it, and got rid of the soil, tossed the pot even!
On another note, the Green Crack, I had it growing for a couple of years with no problems in soil, same feeding as all the other strains. I’d be interested in that soil sample…
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Banana seats and ape hangers. Had a couple bikes similar to that one.
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My bike was almost the same except I had the T shift , 3 speed on the main frame
Cheers Johnny
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@ReikoX sorry I haven’t updated, been a busy summer so far, here are the ghost rose I got from you a while back! 100% germ, about 3.5 weeks into flower and already super sticky, smells like sweet citrus, almost like a lemon bubblegum. Will update as we near harvest 
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Looking good @Jinglepot
I hope my ghost rose come in the mail today 
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