Over and over again, I meet cannabis growers who are not yet aware of a widespread disease that has been appearing more and more across the United States – hop latent viroid (HpLVd).
Viroids are not viruses but, rather, a plant-specific pathogenic RNA.
But there is reason to believe that the California cannabis industry has been struggling with it since 2014 with many reports of “dudding” – stunted growth, lack of trichomes and a lack of secondary metabolites such as cannabinoids and terpenes.https://57cff40d375e3ae4ccb801012ecea1bd.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
Testing for HpLVd is still not common practice in the marijuana or hemp industries.