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From: froid@sane.org
Newman wrote in news:sn19lk$mnq$8@dont-email.me:
> Parents who smoke pot produce mentally ill transgender screwups.
About 90% of cannabis plants in the California industry are reportedly
infected with hop-latent viroid (HLVd), a pathogen that cripples growth
and can reduce THC levels in a plant by as much as half.
More than 90% of cannabis in California is infected with a pathogen that
effectively destroys the plant and could wreak havoc on the state’s
industry, according to an SF Gate report. Hop-latent viroid (HLVd)
shrivels cannabis plants, reducing how much weight they produce by as much
as 30%, and cutting THC in the plant by as much as half, the report says.
The pathogen was first documented in cannabis in 2019 and it is estimated
to have infected most of the state’s cannabis. In 2021, Dark Heart Nursery
announced the results of a formal survey that found, after 200,000 tissue
tests, 90% of California facilities included in the research had HLVd,
according to a Cannabis Business Times report.
The pathogen has also been found at cannabis grows in Massachusetts,
according to an NPR report from February.
Tests have been developed to determine whether a plant is infected with
the pathogen — one by Oakland’s Purple City Labs can be conducted on-site
and delivers results in just a few hours.
If a plant is infected by HLVd, it must be destroyed, Nick Masso of
Massachusetts-based Indo Labs told NPR.
“You cannot recover from hop latent viroid,” he said.
The pathogen spreads quickly because cultivators often use cuttings from a
mother plant to propagate more plants, but the new plants are already
infected, and the viroid spreads exponentially.
https://www.ganjapreneur.com/report-more-than-90-of-california-cannabis-
infected-with-hop-latent-viroid/
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