Plant Diseases - A Garden Sage Lesson

http://hydroselect.com One of the most difficult to diagnose of plant diseases is viruses. And there are many viruses around these days to infect your favorite plants. Some viruses come from unrelated species. Some develop within the species but the reality is there are viruses all over the place. You can literally touch a cigarette and then go pinch a plant and pass tobacco mosaic virus to that strain. Viruses are transmitted through contact like bodily fluids, so basically it’s scissors, it’s your fingers, and then are some pests that can pass viruses like thrips. Thrips have a rasping mouthpiece, which scrapes the chlorophyll from plant material while they exchange bodily fluids with your plant. Essentially the thrips are instrumental in passing viruses. If you have thrips, chances are you have a virus and it seems like over 50 percent of the plants that are available today have viruses. Now sometimes if the plant is weak, the virus symptoms are very severe. If the plant is strong, sometimes we don’t even see symptoms. We don’t even know we have them. So what are the symptoms? We can see things difficult to diagnose things like the curling of leaves. Some people call them rams horns. We can see twisting of leaves, straight up hooking to the right or the left very aggressively. We can see weird mottled yellowing. So if you’re looking at a plant and the yellowing is not consistent, it’s what we call “mottled,” then there’s a good chance you’re looking at a viral infection and you can beat your head against the wall, trying to deal with it as a nutrient deficiency but reality is, it will not go away. There isn’t really a way to get rid of it. So what we can do is we can make life perfect for the plants, so we can still get a decent yield. This is entirely possible with viruses. It doesn’t mean you won’t get a good yield. So don’t get too worried. Really it’s about making the environment perfect and then you can still get good results. Having said that, we’re definitely better off to put time into breeding and giving back to the plants that give so much to us, so we can get beyond the prison of viral infections. Working in the garden creating a healthy harvest provides you with a sense of achievement and feelings of success. When working with plants and hydroponic systems there is wide variety of products each designed with a specific purpose. Hydro Select creates videos on all the products in the industry to create a resourced based website that allows you to see products tested and opened so you can learn and expand your gardening knowledge prior to making a purchase. Gardening is a passion for many of our customers. We believe the escape into a garden can be a great stress reliever. If you have video or a product you would like to have reviewed by one of our experts please Contact Us Today. Monday - Friday: 9am - 5 pm PST http://hydroselect.com/ [email protected] 1 (844) 493-7677 Select the best products in the industry by understanding how to use them with Hydro Select.