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Today, we are diving back into the topic of viruses, viroids, pathogens, all the nasty stuff that can get after your plants.

And we have a great guest who hasn't been on in a minute.

From Rimrock Analytical. We have

Taylor on the program. What's up, Taylor? How you doing? Hey, Jordan. Doing well. Appreciate you having me back on. Yeah, man. Thanks for coming back on the show. Thank you for all the great work you do at Rim Rock Analytical. People using the sex testing for the grand pheno hunt, you know, our big pheno hunt contest. You guys came in handy

sexing all those plants. So appreciate you doing good work and getting those sex tests out fast,

man. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Likewise, always happy to support the community. We just got the

price kit out, so that should be out. But yeah, that's a good thing.

Oh yeah. Shout out Charlie Brown won a bunch of

free tests. So we love Rimrock here. And we needed to have you back on because we're talking about

really all the nasty stuff that can infect our plants, you know, HLVD, these viruses, these

viroids and pathogens even. Taylor, it's a big deal, man. It can mean total crop loss. And

anytime you're dealing with losing everything, it's a big problem. So for the listeners,

Rimrock analytical does testing. Not only do they do sex testing, they test for, like I said,

HLVD, cannabis cryptic virus, lettuce, chlorosis, all sorts of nasty stuff.

Why don't we start there?

I want to talk today about a couple of really nasty killers, but let's start with the testing.

Obviously, you guys do sex testing, but how does that differ from, say, testing for a viroid in a plant or testing even for a pathogen inside a plant?

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