Tobacco Mosaic Virus Video

[Spanglish]

I know this can be a tricky one to diagnose, so hopefully will be of some help to someone.

The video description reads
"It could be any of a number of viruses that are commonly referred to as Tobacco Mosaic Virus or none at all. It's hard to tell without a test, but these plants show many of the typical symptoms of a mosaic virus."

@Waira could you verify the content and that the above statement is correct, as i noticed in the past you had knowledge of Tobacco Mosaic Virus.

 

[Waira]

good video Spanglish! I'd say he right on his diagnosis of the plants too,...I truly wish I could fine a definitive source of confirmed viral cases/symptoms, but I haven't so far,... just what I could pull up on the web from various sources, none of which are that good, so it's piecemeal info I've gathered,... And diagnosing it is bitch too, just by visual symptoms... some are pretty solid for certainty of infection (certain patterns of color break combined with forms of distortion), but there are many others that can look a lot like other things, and worse, there are multiple strains of TBM virus and others kinds of viruses too, and they often manifest different symptoms,... you have to look at all the collective symptoms together, and have details about the grow to go through process of elimination of other potential causes, if possible,... In the end, only a specific test kit will tell for sure, and those are not all inclusive of any given viruses, they have to be fairly specific to types of them,... It gets worse! Some say there's no "proof" cannabis is susceptible to TBM, but is to others,.. some of those others turn out to be variants of TBM and others, like Sunn-hemp... like I said, definitively, it's a clusterfuck out there! Fact: many types of virus can infect multiple plant species, they're not restricted to just one plant family or species,... I think there are two types that are specific to cannabis, Hemp Mosiac and Hemp Streak,... but again, some types named for other totally unrelated plants can infect cannabis, so it goes back to the problems with kit testing, and it's limited specificity, for confirming infection!


>>> combo of color break and distortion-->