Alright guys, so after months of hard work and anticipation.. I harvested my three white rhino plants. After drying and curing for a month now, I look in one of the jars too see 2 single nugs with slight cobweb like mold on it. the other nugs in the jar look fine, and id hate to throw away 16 gs of this gorgeous crop. are the rest of the seemingly untouched nugs fine to smoke? or would it still be ill advised? I just got done carefully inspecting all the nugs for 2 hours and plucked off anything white or shady looking. and if i am convinced not to smoke the beautiful little guys, would it be safe to make brownies with? it would really be a shame to see my first grow go to waste where i cant even smoke it
If it's cob webs, there might have been some mites in your jar. If it is indeed mold, you need to carefully inspect each bud for infection and discard any that show signs. Then dry them completely, and do it fast. If you are lucky you may save some of your jar. Get a magnifying glass. Mold spores in your lungs is very bad. Also, don't smoke it with anybody allergic to penicillin just as a precaution
yeah ive thrown away the ones with the web-like mold and chopped off anything that looks even minutely unsafe. if more of them looked bad i wouldnt risk it and throw them all out and save my health but the weird thing is very few of them looked like that. the rest of the nugs are fiery red and look healthy, i threw them back in a new mason jar with some rice to absorb the rest of the moisture and i was gonna check back on it throughout the week and if anything else is growing i'll definitely toss them. any other advice is much appreciated!
nah man my jars smelled like poop and the nugs were wet enough to the point where they wouldnt grind in my grinder they just shred and get in a big sticky mess. same thing happened to my stems from the plant trimmings that i was holding on to, so im gonna say im positive that its mold. but those firey nugs are looking mightyyyyy tempting right now...
That means your bud isn't dry enough when you jar it. let the stem make the snap noise and let that shit get dry as fuck and smelling like hay. It will regain its smell and a bit of moisture when you jar it. That happened to me once with some k2 that i didn't let get dry enough.