Plant growing awkwardly? Mites? Dudding? Help

[Mrkline006]

 

[Mrkline006]

 

[Mrkline006]

This pic was from last week. All of one strain growing like this. Didn’t happen till AFTER topping. Also throwing 3 finger leafs.

 

[Mrkline006]

 

[Mrkline006]

Above canopy view... any insights or comments would be awesome please help. It’s only one strain as of now which is the weird part

 

[TanzanianMagic]

The plant looks fine. I would prune the smaller stunted leaves and branches at the center of the plant, if only to improve airflow and reduce the diversion of energy towards growing branches that aren't going to grow a lot of bud or will be shaded by the canopy.

In photograph 1, I would just prune the tiny leaves near the stem. All those leaves touching the medium are basically pathways for any insects on the top of the medium. And they block airflow. A lot of insects have a life cycle that takes them from the leaf, to dropping to the ground, to crawling back up the plant.

 

[iTarzan]

Witch's Broom.

 

[Storm Shadow]

What strain is that... GG4?

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

If you think you have russet mites in veg, spray wettable sulfur on them, that and keeping temps down will both control the problem. You can stop spraying sulphur about 2-3 weeks after flip and the plant will take care of the rest, but if you want to be sure if you got russet mites before you decide to start treating for them you gotta look closer at the plant than you did.

 

[Mrkline006]

What strain is that... GG4?

No Orange Daiquiri..

 

[Mrkline006]

The plant looks fine. I would prune the smaller stunted leaves and branches at the center of the plant, if only to improve airflow and reduce the diversion of energy towards growing branches that aren't going to grow a lot of bud or will be shaded by the canopy.

In photograph 1, I would just prune the tiny leaves near the stem. All those leaves touching the medium are basically pathways for any insects on the top of the medium. And they block airflow. A lot of insects have a life cycle that takes them from the leaf, to dropping to the ground, to crawling back up the plant.

Yeah I’m going to recheck for bugs tonight. The branches can’t hold themselves up that’s why they are touching medium. They are too weak to hold themselves up and I’ll have to string them up in order to help. That’s what I’m trying to figure out.

 

[Mrkline006]

Witches Broom.

Can’t find much on it. Could you explain a little more? Why you think. EXACTY what it is. Can it be dealt with ect

 

[iTarzan]

It is spelled Witch's Broom. I had it spelled plural instead of possessive. It is caused by several things. Around here broad mites, fusarium and nematodes were suspects and other things. Have you grown these before. There all wimpy, weak stemmed phenos of some strains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch's_broom

 

[Mrkline006]

It is spelled Witch's Broom. I had it spelled plural instead of possessive. It is caused by several things. Around here broad mites, fusarium and nematodes were suspects and other things. Have you grown these before. There all wimpy, weak stemmed phenos of some strains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch's_broom

New strain in room. And the plant doesn’t look like it’s trying to shape into a witch’s broom tho. It’s actually just trying to grow horizontally. So I’m getting confused. Those pictures are maybe just the extreme cases which makes it harder to determine. What about the plant structure tells you it may be that? It’s only the bottom couple branches that are super weak. The others hold themselves up bottoms not so much.

 

[beta]

Looks like classic Hop Latent Viroid to me. Dwarved leaves, horizontal growth, floppy stems.

 

[prune]

Could just be hormonal disarray caused by an awkward topping on a weak and overly bushy plant.
Trim off the lower weak growth, especially the inner 2-4 nodes on every branch and elevate the highest branch tip into a vertical orientation above all the others.
If that is the problem the plant can recover in a weeks time, although it may require some additional pruning to maintain control.

 

[Mrkline006]

Getting stumped for sure on this

 

[Tardigrade]

Could just be hormonal disarray caused by an awkward topping on a weak and overly bushy plant.
Trim off the lower weak growth, especially the inner 2-4 nodes on every branch and elevate the highest branch tip into a vertical orientation above all the others.
If that is the problem the plant can recover in a weeks time, although it may require some additional pruning to maintain control.

This is excellent advice. I hadn't know the term Witch's Broom before but my Blue Dream (yes i still have her) and Wet Dream (her child) both exhibit the trait and when I cut clones off of my over grown mothers, and the clones often times exhibit it too. They all will out grow it with proper pruning and lollipopping.

 

[bassmaster420]

Hi saw your post on the hops latent viroid thread. This is 100 percent hplvd in my opinion. Send out samples to a lab to be sure. Do not flower unless you are ok with sub par results.

 

[Mrkline006]

Hi saw your post on the hops latent viroid thread. This is 100 percent hplvd in my opinion. Send out samples to a lab to be sure. Do not flower unless you are ok with sub par results.

I flowered it out and actually got a very good yield (for the plants I kept) and great smell ect. So who knows. That grow is over so I’m kind of putting it behind me at this point.