(First off: English is not my first language, so cut me some slack, please.)
I'm not an expert grower by any means, I still consider myself a novice trying to learn, but I've had surprisingly successful grows over the last two years - up to now.
Just a few infos to start with: I'm using a growbox in a well aired room. Room temp is usually around 20-24 °C, humidity inside my growbox is between 40 and 55% all of the time. First I used a 400W bulp for the grow I'm about to describe because my 600W bulp refused to work anymore. I later replaced it and switched to bloom right with it. I control my pH and EC and keep it on 5,5-5,8 all the time. I usually use Canna products to feed my plants, but tried out the entire product line of Innovating Plant Products this time around.
Until now I only raised my plants from seeds. I wanted to try out something new, wanted to learn - so I took 18 cuttings from a friend's plants. This wasn't about raking in a huge harvest, it was more like an experiment for me. As some sort of "control group" regarding the quality of my self-made cuttings I bought a Nebula cutting from one of our biggest, most renowned grow shops. And for the beginning, everything was fine.
A friend of mine who's growing on hydro used his system to get the cuttings to root first, so when I planted them straight into the earth (Plagron growmix) they already had nice, big roots. At first, their growth was slow and a bit disappointing. When they were finally big enough, I changed to a 400W bulp first. When they got big enough, I bought and added the Nebula cutting from the mentioned grow shop. Everything looked great.
But then I started noticing bright, light-green "stripes" and patches on some of the leaves.
At first, I didn't think anything of it. I also only noticed this on 1 or 2 of my plants, so it didn't bother me too much. A small pH mistake, maybe some malnutrition - let's keep an eye on it. Later, more and more plants - across different strains - started showing those symptoms. Then I noticed some of the leaves started to bend and point sideways - which was something I have never ever seen before. Not on my plants in the past, not on any plants of my friends or in any cannabis plant ever for that matter.
The more the plants grew, the more leaves were distorted that way. So last night, I took it to Google and looked around for hours and hours and hours every day - until I stumbled upon TMV. I'm a strong smoker (cigarettes) and - due to space issues - smoke in the room I'm keeping my growbox (but use a piece of thick whool over the air intake to my growbox so not too much nasty stuff - like dust - gets in there). I've never heared of the TMV and, to be honest, reading about it kinda spoiled smoking for me more then any threat of lung cancer ever could... :/ Anyway, some of my friends smoke in their grow rooms as well - the plants could have gotten infected with TMV through the smoke (which is possible, dozens of general gardening, tobacco- and cannabis-related sites claim). Then again, during all of my previous grows, I did the same thing - I had the growbox on exactly the same spot and sometimes even smoked when the box was open while watering the plants - nothing happened then. Maybe one of the cutling's mothers was infected? Maybe the Nebula I bought in the shop infected everything else?
But is this even TMV? Could it be a parasite like broad mites? I ordered a microscope this week so I can check my plants - until then, I won't know for sure. I found strange yellow-whitish "blobs" on three of my plants:
They're not moving or anything, they're just... there and I don't know what they are or where they came from. They don't fit any parasite's description I came across.
Like I said, I'm still not that experienced - I'd be happy if some of the local experts took a look at my pics.
I'm not an expert grower by any means, I still consider myself a novice trying to learn, but I've had surprisingly successful grows over the last two years - up to now.
Just a few infos to start with: I'm using a growbox in a well aired room. Room temp is usually around 20-24 °C, humidity inside my growbox is between 40 and 55% all of the time. First I used a 400W bulp for the grow I'm about to describe because my 600W bulp refused to work anymore. I later replaced it and switched to bloom right with it. I control my pH and EC and keep it on 5,5-5,8 all the time. I usually use Canna products to feed my plants, but tried out the entire product line of Innovating Plant Products this time around.
Until now I only raised my plants from seeds. I wanted to try out something new, wanted to learn - so I took 18 cuttings from a friend's plants. This wasn't about raking in a huge harvest, it was more like an experiment for me. As some sort of "control group" regarding the quality of my self-made cuttings I bought a Nebula cutting from one of our biggest, most renowned grow shops. And for the beginning, everything was fine.
A friend of mine who's growing on hydro used his system to get the cuttings to root first, so when I planted them straight into the earth (Plagron growmix) they already had nice, big roots. At first, their growth was slow and a bit disappointing. When they were finally big enough, I changed to a 400W bulp first. When they got big enough, I bought and added the Nebula cutting from the mentioned grow shop. Everything looked great.
But then I started noticing bright, light-green "stripes" and patches on some of the leaves.
At first, I didn't think anything of it. I also only noticed this on 1 or 2 of my plants, so it didn't bother me too much. A small pH mistake, maybe some malnutrition - let's keep an eye on it. Later, more and more plants - across different strains - started showing those symptoms. Then I noticed some of the leaves started to bend and point sideways - which was something I have never ever seen before. Not on my plants in the past, not on any plants of my friends or in any cannabis plant ever for that matter.
The more the plants grew, the more leaves were distorted that way. So last night, I took it to Google and looked around for hours and hours and hours every day - until I stumbled upon TMV. I'm a strong smoker (cigarettes) and - due to space issues - smoke in the room I'm keeping my growbox (but use a piece of thick whool over the air intake to my growbox so not too much nasty stuff - like dust - gets in there). I've never heared of the TMV and, to be honest, reading about it kinda spoiled smoking for me more then any threat of lung cancer ever could... :/ Anyway, some of my friends smoke in their grow rooms as well - the plants could have gotten infected with TMV through the smoke (which is possible, dozens of general gardening, tobacco- and cannabis-related sites claim). Then again, during all of my previous grows, I did the same thing - I had the growbox on exactly the same spot and sometimes even smoked when the box was open while watering the plants - nothing happened then. Maybe one of the cutling's mothers was infected? Maybe the Nebula I bought in the shop infected everything else?
But is this even TMV? Could it be a parasite like broad mites? I ordered a microscope this week so I can check my plants - until then, I won't know for sure. I found strange yellow-whitish "blobs" on three of my plants:
They're not moving or anything, they're just... there and I don't know what they are or where they came from. They don't fit any parasite's description I came across.
Like I said, I'm still not that experienced - I'd be happy if some of the local experts took a look at my pics.
