Got Mold, now what?

My started to mold and I cut my down but it was also Cold 61F and we and raining every other day or soo.. (Northeast). If it starts to mold.. other will too.

if there mold there bad buds.. I mean you can smoke them.. kinda taste different..


picture would help too

 

The moldy parts are garbage. However you can cut the mold out really carefully and then some, and the rest is good to smoke. Be careful not to smoke any of the mold though as it is bad for your health.

 

I have, unfortunately, smoked bud with mold on it when I was younger on two occasions, where I was aware after the fact that mold definitely was present.

On both occasions I achieved a low-grade lung infection, nothing that required a doctor. But for about 2 weeks after each time, everything I ate and smoked tasted like hell, completely ruined everything I wanted to enjoy for those weeks.

Remembering that now, it's NOT at all how I would want to spend my harvest celebration

Those were just the two times I was positive, and knew for a fact I had smoked mold, with a 100% sick rate... nothing terribly definitive. But on maybe a handful of times after that, when smoking from other peoples bags whether they were bought or grown, I've had similar infections, probably from smoking undetected moldy weed.

Could be coincidence, although I never get lung infections otherwise even when spending time near or around mold, and I have never had a lung infection, or been ill in any way, from smoking weed I grew myself and knew for a fact it was as clean as possible.

So it seems to me, from my thankfully limited experience with moldy weed, that intentionally inhaling large doses will probably not be good for you

Now this is just my body, and I know a few people personally who claim (probably foolishly, but it's not for me to prove them wrong) that they don't 'feel' anything bad when they smoke mold, so they don't turn down moldy bud like I do when it's offered. It's up to you really, but you know what your gut is telling you if you had to ask: that it's probably not a great idea.

If more than 30%-40% of the bud on any given plant has visible, detectable mold, odds are the 'clean' looking areas unfortunately aren't safe either Usually once you have visible mold to that degree, the rest of the plant is covered in spores getting ready to become the above.

I say specifically on 'any given plant', rather than 30-40% of your total harvest, because obviously if 30-40% of the whole crop itself is moldy, but it's just a few plants making up that entire percentage, and you have another few plants that are visibly mold free, those plants were probably somehow healthier than the rest, and due to their vigor, they were spared the infection if that makes sense. Plants have natural defenses against mold, even when it's present (say on a wall, or other nearby structure), but a sick plant will have weaker defenses, and easily succumb to illness.

That being said, the best thing you can do for your moldy bud, would be to make some ISO or hot/fast cannabutter. Other extraction methods will likely not neutralize the mold or spores, so avoid other extraction options unless they similarly include heat and alcohol exposure.

Smoking a bowl sounds like it should work safely... but only if you don't actually think about it.

People assume; "oh, with smoking a bowl, you're lighting it on fire, that should kill it"... but remember, you are drawing the smoke through all the un-burned bud and spores in the base of that bowl pack, and molds that form under light exposure (ie. most of the kinds of molds that effect us) are unusually heat-resistant, particularly if you do what people call 'cornering' a bowl which draws only cool air though the un-charred bud.
So those first few hits absolutely allow living spores to enter your system.. and yes, even through a bong =-P

 

Wow im so fucking scared of this happening to my crop

 

Hey. Sorry bout the loss man.

No. Its not OK to smoke.

I have covered mold ie - smoking and storing it. Its in my pest sticky, I think somewhere in the last 6 pages. Hope it helps.

Freak

 

Trust me, you don't want that mold in your lungs!! Or your throat for that matter. I myself am alergic to molds. People have the wrong idea about mold, they think of the stuff on bread or in the shower,but the fact is that mold spores are micro. If you can see mold, there is alrealdy billion of spores you can't see. I'm cryin' for ya, Next Year, or indoor?

 

Nope, Im not sayin that.

Im not gonna butt in here cuz you have gotten some really excellent info from
BadKittySmiles - she knows her shit real good too man.

Youre in good hands. All the best.

Freak

 

Please post pictures of your molded buds

 

Alrighteeeee then.

Good luck with thoze lungsa yourz .

Freak

 

It looks like you have the same problem I had with a few buds, caterpillars. They get inside the bud and munch away and their excrements start the mold process.

 

you don't need to throw anything away. qwiso

 

I have not experienced any adverse health problems smoking pot, but then maybe I'm just lucky.

This article on moldy dope made me rethink the notion that fire will purify moldy pot.

http://dope.org/drugs/marijuana/misc/moldy.weed

 

Yah Moldy bud = Seperate drying area then butter. You kill 2 birds with one STONE (lol).
First using moldy bud to make cannabutter will:

1. Get you high

2. Keep you healthy (Penicillin)
Bah it's the wake n bake, I think I thought that people would think my thought was funny,, Peace