Some questions from a newcomer

Hey,

Do you mean smoking weed or growing? Pesticides tend to be a problem for growers as is mould. You can only really tell good weed when you are smoking it- the bud may look great but if it was harvested at the wrong time it sometimes has negative effects. People associate weed with a happy giggly high but this is not always true, I have certainly smoked bad weed and ended up feeling quite low and paranoid. Generally if you are buying weed the grower should recognise bad weed e.g if it had mould problems so it may be cheaper than usual. With smoking weed it is literally a case of trying it, in my experience the good stuff always has a nice sort of frosting and a few amber trichomes but not bone dry

 

If it's flushed and cured right, you shouldn't have to worry about mold or pesticides, but if you get the occasional damp, spongey weed that smells earthy or not skunky, you might have gotten bad weed.

Here's a good thread on mold: MOLD on pot - photos

 

Well, there's no way to really look at weed and tell if it was flushed or if pesticides were used. You can just aim for buying top-shelf product and you should get good stuff. When smoking it people usually look for white coloured ash, saying black coloured ash is a sign for chemicals and other fert's that were not flushed out.

Don't be too worried, as I doubt you will run into something like this. Mold is usually an issue after leaving it in the rain or getting bad weed directly from a dealer. It's usually white a fuzzy, but don't confuse Trich's for mold .