Blackketch
Well-Known Member
As recounted a few posts ago, HLVd has also reached Europe very easily given now the widespread practice of buying clones from overseas. I don't think 90% are infected but I don't see why it can't be possible. If you go into a cultivation and touch HLVd you can bring it into your home, if you know someone who cultivates and has come into enough contact with the disease you risk bringing it into your cultivation anyway, many studies ( and not from companies bragging about curing it with a product or uv rays as, moreover, Dark Nursery has also done) point out that even a dry flower from a cultivation with the presence of the virus could (although it is extremely difficult) contain a viral load so great that risk even there to bring home the virus or there are those who even talk about transmission of the virus with infected seeds, I can assure you that they have found traces of the virus even in seeds (as rare as it is) and it happened just at Canapa Mundi in Rome this year where they analyzed several clones and seeds . Like EVERY virus there are the asymptomatic plants and plants that are minimally disturbed by the virus and in the meantime there are a whole host of plants that do not yield resin, have mutated internodes (they grow pointing all at 90°) and stems that look like they are made of rubber. There is some plant or crop that is more affected but I don't see how it can't be possible given the ease of transmission. The only way that exists at the moment to cure HLVd is by growing the tissue of infected plants since the virus goes to affect the plant's DNA and there is neither a light nor a miracle liquid that goes to work on the DNA