After cutting down an outdoor plant in ground soil, will the virus survive in the roots until next season? Or does the virus die after cutting down the plant? Thank you
I would assume that if the virus was in the root zone, it would still be in the field the next year to some degree. I believe after that infection would be by chance, bugs in the soil could cut or break the roots opening a vector for disease, similar to fusarium or pythium MO I suppose.
My question is, how do your plants get it??? Is it from not cleaning tools? Not keeping a good clean grow space? Is it from hops getting near a cannabis plants an spread from their? I'm so curious I just don't understand it's very scary to think all of someone's plants can be infected an they think it's something their doing wrong. You order new seeds from a good supplier an the seeds are also a way to get the problem!!! How can we be sure if we don't have access to getting tests. Like people in states that it's illegal to grow. I guess more research needs to be done. If all this is known now, you would think seed banks are testing but what do we do. How do we fix it long term is what I'm thinking. Say you kill a whole room an start over an it's in the seeds. You wouldn't know!
It is spread through the sap of the plant. So thrips, aphids, mites, and scissors could all be vectors of disease, any mechanical damage is a potential vector of disease.
@@doveseye.4666 It has been found in seeds. Once you have it, you have to destroy the whole crop. You can clean it up using tissue culture and propagate from tissue culture.
