Can someone identify this problem?
it’s only on one plant and just barely started this!
Plant strain is purple kush.
Grown in soil.
Mosaic Virus
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I sure hope it’s not! Would be my luck though!
Definitely mosaic virus. I had it once. And every time I see it I still say, wow that’s beautiful. Sucks that it’s a bad thing!
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Thank you for the info. I’m on it as far as getting it out of my greenhouse.!
I personally let my girl finish out, she had tobacco mosaic virus. And she still made really good nugs, she just didn’t look normal with her leaves all colored differently lol
But I had room to put her away from everyone else!
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Here ya HP. …I’m posting a pic looks just like your plants.
Here is some details about it for starters…
Tobacco Mosaic Virus
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) has been at the center of virus research since its discovery over a hundred years ago. TMV was the first virus to be discovered. Late in the 19th century, researchers found that a tiny infectious agent, too small to be a bacterium, was the cause of a disease of tobacco plants. It then took 30 years of work before the nature of this mysterious agent became apparent. In a Nobel-prize-winning study, Wendell Stanley coaxed the virus to form crystals, and discovered that it was composed primarily of protein. Others quickly discovered that there was also RNA in the virus. Then, many prominent structural researchers (including J. D. Bernal, Rosalind Franklin, Ken Holmes, Aaron Klug, Don Caspar, and Gerald Stubbs) used X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy to probe the structure of the virus.
A Helical Virus
Several structures of the whole tobacco mosaic virus are available in the PDB, including the ground-breaking one solved by X-ray fiber diffraction (shown here from PDB entry 2tmv), and a recent structure solved by analysis of many electron micrographs (PDB entry 2om3). The virus is composed of one strand of RNA (shown in red) wrapped inside a sheath of protein (shown in blue). The protein coat is composed of about 2130 copies of a small protein, which stack like bricks in a cylindrical chimney. The RNA strand encodes four proteins, which together orchestrate the life cycle of the virus. These include two proteins that replicate the viral RNA, a protein that transports the RNA from cell to cell, spreading the infection, and the capsid protein seen in the PDB structures.
TMV Infection
Tobacco mosaic virus is very stable, so stable that it can survive for years in cigars and cigarettes made from infected leaves. The viral RNA is infectious by itself, but the addition of a protein coat protects the RNA from enzymes that would destroy it. The protein coat poses a problem, however: it must be removed once the virus gets inside a cell. TMV uses two tricks to release its RNA. As with many viruses, TMV has a chemical switch that causes the protein to change when the environment changes. The capsid protein has several clusters of acidic amino acids that are stable outside of cells, where calcium levels are high, but repel one another in the low-calcium conditions inside cells. This is enough to loosen the first few capsid proteins, releasing the end of the RNA. TMV then uses ribosomes as the engines to finish the job. As the ribosomes move down the strand, creating the first set of virus proteins, they displace the remaining capsid proteins.
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Hope this helps
Will
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@ktreez420 do you have advice for cleaning? I really need someone experienced to help me. Thanks.
Cleaning what @Fever? I will try and help!
Advice on cleaning my 2 grow tent and a carpeted room they reside in. How did you fair after you finished your plants?
Yea I have some advice I can give you, no doubt!
I washed my walls with a water and mild soap mixture. Then wiped with a water/alcohol mixture. Finally, I finished by spraying with an organic pesticide/mold preventative product, just in case.
I grow with cement floors, so clean up went the same for that. For a carpeted floor I would vacuum multiple times, then even clean with some type of organic carpet cleaner.
You always want to keep this motto in your head when growing, “Better safe, than sorry.”
Thanks!
I have physan 20 that I can spray. What about the walls of the room outside the tent (mine is a studio for music and have a foam soundproof on the walls which would be difficult to clean)? Did you ever see the virus return?
I’m thinking of also spraying Lysol around the studio outside the tent and wiping down and cleaning all equipment (even soil bags etc)
Nope, for me it happened to one plant and never again.
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