What Is HPLVD And How Can Your Cannabis Crop Be Protected?
We have all grown rather accustomed to talking about viruses, symptoms, and the most recent infection hotspots during the previous 1.5 years. While they grow area or outdoor cannabis plot served as a sort of refuge from the Covid craziness, the rising presence of a cannabis plant viroid known as HpLVd poses a threat of bringing all that virus chatter inside the grow room. Therefore, should cannabis growers be concerned about HpLVd and HPLVD Testing ? The question of how to prevent HpLVd infection in their cannabis plants in the grow room is also one that growers are questioning. What is the Hop Latent Viroid, or HpLVd? Hop Latent Viroid (more popularly known as HpLVd or HLV for short) is frequently described as a cannabis virus, although its precise definition is a "viroid" because it is a pathogenic RNA that is particular to plants. Hop plants, which belong to the same family as cannabis plants, are where they got their start, as the name suggests. This virus was initially d...