Here's a couple of shots of what I believe to be the purple phytoplasmic blight that I dubbed Purple Plague. In my grow, it presented the heaviest in the Slymer x Mendobreath, which hermed and had to be chopped. I did find a couple spots of it in the Chosen Juan, in the same bed. Those spots were cut out and it's been several days since I last saw any. One spot of it appeared in the Cheese several feet away from that bed, cut out and that was the only time I've seen it in that one.
A couple of years ago, I found this in a big ass ring in the yard. This time is some distance from that, there's just enough you can get a sense that it's an arc, a partial ring. It is also late stage apparently, I never let it go in a plant long enough to see the stuff below that sort of resembles trichomes.
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I was very surprised this shit didn't spread any worse than it did, and plain shocked that the Slymer actually cleared some of it, and I think I know why. I'm sure that my plants are all heavily colonized with BT, as I gave them that as seedlings when the rapid rooters went into soil, and then more when the plants were installed into the ground and beds. I understand that the BT itself does not fight this infection, but I think that the plants are so thoroughly colonized with it that this particular infection at least, the Purple Plague, vectored by leafhoppers, was simply not able to get a foothold. No beach head, invasion fails. I'm also convinced that the huge diminishment of septoria in this grow is for the same cause. You can bet I'll be doing the same as I launch every future grow, I also want to add myco.
