is this MOLD on me WEED could do with some help!!

[dudewheresmysocks]

hey, check the link below, the stuff seemed dry then was put away in a draw, took it out today, about a week after and its a bit furry.... tell me what u think


http://aa.1asphost.com/john111/DSC00442.JPG


all help appriciated!!


also if it is could i put it in the microwave or oven to get rid of it?

[Nochowderforyou]

I see the start of some mold. I see some small weblike webs zooming up on the weed. The mold hasn't hit full yet, so smoking it should be okay.

Just to cautious though, carefull snip off and remove the effected areas and throw it away. Like I said, the mold hasn't grown full on yet, and there isn't a whole lot on there, so you won't lose much if you remove it.

Good luck!

[dudewheresmysocks]

which parts are the mould the little green ball'y things?

[dudewheresmysocks]

should i microwave it to be safe, im just not sure which partsd are mould theres like white fuzzyness a little then those wierd gr4een balls on the end of sticks....

[Nochowderforyou]

Open your picture, zoom in as close as you can, and carefully look at the big bud front and center. You can see, barely see, little webs, like spider webs. It's there, but just barely.

Microwaving it will not make the mold go away. The only way to get rid of the little web effected parts, is to cut it off and throw it away. Microwaving your buds will just vape away the THC and make your smoke even worse. Cut it off, throw the effected pieces away, then smoke.

Smoking mold can give you severe lung infections and is even deadly.

[dudewheresmysocks]

sorry mate im a complete noob with all this, is the area ive circled on this pic the area you mean? its jsut theres like white fluff and the wierd like green balls so i want to be sure i take off all the right stuff


thanks though

http://img46.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc004422ql2.jpg

[dudewheresmysocks]

2 more pics

http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/7457/2002909025184404836_rs.jpg


http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/6112/2002911915459138838_rs.jpg


soz im just a noob wanting to be safe/not throw it away though

[Nochowderforyou]

sorry mate im a complete noob with all this, is the area ive circled on this pic the area you mean? its jsut theres like white fluff and the wierd like green balls so i want to be sure i take off all the right stuff


thanks though

http://img46.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc004422ql2.jpg

Nope, not that part. Those are the trichomes, the THC goodness. I circles the areas in black (picture below). You can just see something that looks like a spider web. That, is the start of mold, remove it. There isn't much of it, but the stuff spreads like wildfire and can ravish your whole crop in about 24hrs.

You see it now? It's barely visable, but I can just see it.

[Nochowderforyou]

Wait, just hold on a second. Let me look at the 2 other pictures you posted. I may have been wrong......

[dudewheresmysocks]

awesome thank you! so should i just pull that area off and throw or scrape it off or burn it off? not sure how to go about it

[Nochowderforyou]

After looking closely at the other pics you attached, I believe that that bud is ravaged in white mold. At first, I thought it was heavy trich production, but it does look like a white fuzz. :(

You can try cutting off the bud part where the mold is and see how it looks after you cut it off. If the mold has infested itself inside of the bud, then I'm sorry to say, it is useless and not smokeable. Like I said, you can get seriously ill or is even fatal if smoked.

Don't cut it off quite yet though. I want to see what other members here think of all of this, but I am 90% sure that is moldy fuzz on there.

ANY INPUT FROM OTHER MEMBERS WOULD REALLY HELP THIS PERSON OUT. :)

[Nochowderforyou]

hi all,

I was just in the recreational forum trying to help a person out figuring out if his buds are moldy or not. I'm having a hard time figuring it out, but look below at the posters 2 attached pictures for a better idea. I just don't want to steer them in the wrong direction. Just a quick look and reply would help both of us out.

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=91481

Thanks people! :thumbsup:

[dudewheresmysocks]

yeah please help me out, im still confused as to which is mould and what isnt, the things you thought were trich's, theres a very smal patch of those further down which look white instead of green.... thats what worries me about them

please help!!

[Nochowderforyou]

Now I've gone and confused you. :p Sorry about that bro.

I posted in the lounge a link to here to get other members to come in and have a look. I don't want to steer you in the wrong direction here, so hopefully someone will give some more insight.

The webs are the start of mold, and all that white stuff, I'm pretty sure, is the full on mold. Someone will come by soon and answer your question.

Sorry to confuse you and all. :o

[Nochowderforyou]

Bump!

[JR77]

My first reaction to those pictures is YES...def looks like something funky there...i've seen mold on weed and it does look like that...Yucky!! I wonder if you trip or something if you smoke it...

[thcbongman]

That area where you circled is pretty moldy, where it's blueish.

Man that sucks, considering it's a nice looking bud.

[NightProwler]

yea dude it looks like youve got a bad mould problem. i wouldnt smoke it

[dudewheresmysocks]

2 new imgs

http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/4428/2003730116968782398_rs.jpg

http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/7068/2003768226962697943_rs.jpg

[Nochowderforyou]

Good to see some others came by and replied. JR77 replied in the thread I posted, he said mold as well. Here's the link if you're interested in reading (threadstarter)

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=91487

[dudewheresmysocks]

so theres no way i could salvage it/cook with it or anything like that??

[thcbongman]

Break it up and see if the mold spread inside the bud. Perhaps you can salvage a few pieces.

[NightProwler]

okay heres what i would do. carefully snip off allll the areas with mold.. and save only the bits that you are CERTAIN dont have any mold growing. do your best to not shake the buds too much or spread the spores with your hand either. once you've got all the mold free bud, i would let it sit a day just to be sure no mold starts so appear on that.

[dudewheresmysocks]

thing is im so confused as to which parts actually are the mould and which parts are jsut crystals, which parts are which?

i had a smaller piece which ive puled apart and the indide of that looks ok but im just not certain what im looking for



hmm when i broke the main bud up ot was almnost like a whisp of smoke coming off it so im guessing those are spores?

[afghooey]

Yeah, those are almost definitely mold spores that you saw. I know it seems like a horrible waste but I'd just throw it away, it's not worth risking your health for a few tokes. Sorry man.

[dudewheresmysocks]

ivw now pulled it all apart and moved the parts i thought were worst away, ie the green/blue spore looking things and the white spore looking things and now it justl ooks like normnal weed id get from the dealer .... it jsut seems like a massive waste, so any more help would be appriciated

[budsmoker only]

ive never dealt with mold so im not sure what to do, or how it looks but that weed does look weird.. if you really need to smoke and cant get any other bud, then id say if your really sure that its mold free smoke it.. but make sure your really sure..

[YahtzeeG]

wow at first glance I was like dude that is called BUD! but wow this lung mold stuff is trippin me out.

[JaggedEdge]

I don't remember who suggested it, but I would follow the advice of leaving it alone now that you cut what you think was mold off. Leave it sit for a few day's and see if you notice more mold growing on it. It is better to be out a little money than have to make a trip to the emergency room. I would take the better safe than sorry route on this one. Watch it for a few day's and if it doesn't look like any more mold has grown and you feel comfortable smoking it go ahead and try. I haven't had any experience with mold either, but that is the way I would handle it.

[jesusthehippy]

nah man thats just crystalisation its good

[HeyItsMe]

It looks like mold, does it smell funky like mold?. IDk dont feel to bad if you have to toss it. I had to toss a ounce one time because of mold.

[JamesTurncoat]

Deffinately mold. You can try and salvage it... but personally I'd just throw it out.

Mold + Lung
= infection
=Hostpital/shitty anti-biotics

Cut your losses. It happens, alot. Shit, will always happen. Just can't let it phaze you.

[yzstoned]

yea unforutnately mold is pretty nasty just chuck it in the trash

[Greenhit]

health is priceless.

[dudewheresmysocks]

hey guys i broke it apart before i went to bed and left it on some toiletroll, this mornig theres no new mould and it just looks like normal weed.... wouldit be smokable? its just alot of money i dont have to throw down the drain..literally

[Cassiopiea]

Mold.

[bzbuzzard]

dude check it out, i doubt youve got mold on it, ive studied the pictures and to me personally it looks like 100% thc,i grow master kush in my home and when you start getting up towards the kola, you see really thick thc which could really resemble mold. my profession (botanist, hah imagine that) has taught me a few things that i can pass onto you so youll know for sure. mold is usually not green, the only green mold pretty much is the mold that grow on bread from the ageing yeast. now the kindve mold your talking about would have come from moisture and it takes ALOT of moisture to grow mold and moisture mold is usually black-ish, also mold grows ten times its size in 24 hours so look at a spot on the bud take a picture and after 24 hours take another picture from the same angle if the spot are the same size ...than its not mold. but the best way is the smell. smell the bud and if it smells like clothes that you left in the washer for too long than your fucked, but if not smoke away. i hope ive helped...peace

[dudewheresmysocks]

when i first got the bud it was really really sticky, like it actually stuck to the cling film it was in, the thing that worrys me the most are the green like balls i circled red in the pics and the fact there were white/cream ones too ... why wud hteybe diff colours if it wasnt mould, and they werent there when i first got it

[bzbuzzard]

give me a second i will look harder and post my results :)

[dudewheresmysocks]

thanks, so basically i got the weed, took some off to smoke put the rest in a jiffy/sandwich bag and then my girlfriend put that in a draw, we took it out last ight whiuc hwas a week since it was in there as my friend is coming through to visit today and it lookedl ike the pics ive posted, i dont have any pics of it when i originally got it as i deleted thenm off my pc after showing a mate, but he may have a copy on his pc...but isnt online :(


like i say i pulled it apart and threw about half away, then i put it in the microwave for about 30 seconds but still havent smoked any...

the thing im worried about is even when i get a cold i get uber fleghmmy so if it actually gave me an infection id be fucked!


oh and could you describe the smell a bit more, when i got it out last night and smelt it it just smelt like normal weed, but perhaps not as strong -a - smell as before it was put in the bag

[dudewheresmysocks]

http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/7457/2002909025184404836_rs.jpg

http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/6112/2002911915459138838_rs.jpg

http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/7457/2002909025184404836_rs.jpg

http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/7068/2003768226962697943_rs.jpg

http://aa.1asphost.com/john111/DSC00442.JPG



all the pics - the last one is mega high res but hasnt much bandwith

[bzbuzzard]

ahhh ok i c, well mold smells like mold to me cause ive studied it lol but lets see here, ok i got it if you take dog shit, and put it in melted cheese and take a wiff i think that would do it , because the first time i smelt a colony growing in a house i said to myself man they mustve had some dogs taht shit everywhere, but infact it was the mold, i mean if you cannot smell anything besides the weed your good, trust me if the mold was bad.....youd know it just take a big ass wiff and if you dnt smell anything bad then your cool and if you smell something outtve the ordinary then describe itto me and i will try to help:)

[bzbuzzard]

here are 3 really good pictures of mold taken by me at that dogshit house lol. compare them to your bud

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/bzbuzzard/mold04-vi.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/bzbuzzard/mold03-vi.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/bzbuzzard/mold02-vi.jpg

[dudewheresmysocks]

well it smells like weed but almost a bit different too

(i think its been oinfused from the microwave though as a while back the gf burnt popcorn in it and it still smells kind of like that today)


but it certainly doesnt have a bad smell too it,

http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/7068/2003768226962697943_rs.jpg it was the things the arrows pointing to that woried me, they dont really look like mould but iver never seen them before//

[bzbuzzard]

alright check it out im glad you showed me that pic. that is simply known as "rust" in the botany world. it occurs in plants that are grown inside. see plants outside have wind the wind shakes the plants knocking theese spores off, but this plant was grown inside and the grower did not use fans to simulate wind. thats all it is.

rust
cause: growing plants inside with no fans
Diagnosis: yellow spots on buds or leaves
Treatment: just knock them bitches off

heres a pic of another plant with rust
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/bzbuzzard/beebalmrust2-jlb.jpg

so yea your fine dude everything else that looks like mold its just the thc crystals you got some fresh high potency weed.
if for some reason by the stroke of god you feel any problems or have trouble breathing just go to the doctor and get some anti biotics youll be fine. but i doubt that will happen

p.s. i dont know why they look orange in that picture lol


thats really good weed by the way even teh stem has crystals on it so technically you could smoke the stem and youd get high

[dudewheresmysocks]

ok cool, so is that what the green like ball things are too?

centre of this picture

http://aa.1asphost.com/john111/DSC00442.JPG


think me and my mate will test it out .... if i dont reply, i died


oh and i just want to add, when i pulled the bud apart last night there was like a whisp of white smoke like stuff that would come off it at certain parts? either crystally as f*ck or mould???

[bzbuzzard]

nah your fine dude, try it out, if the organism isnt strong enough to smell , than its not strong enough to kill you. and if i was there id smoke it with you. lemme know how it goes take some pics of the session lol.. post em

the "dust" is just the crystals mold is not visible when it goes into the air

[PaRaNoIa]

Well...

I would tell if I could.. Link to picure doesn't work for me..

[Greenport]

my advice is buy new bud man.

[johnnyAKABob]

it looks a bit dodgy, not sure tho

[TurnyBright]

i suggest you dont think about it and smoke that shit and get really high.

[napolitana869]

I've never seen moldy weed but I don't think that picture looked normal. What happens if you smoke weed with mold on it, and if you can see mold on one bud does it mean that the rest of the buds in the bag are bad too?

[chris40]

That looks like it has freezer burn.

[dudewheresmysocks]

smoked some and lived to tell the tale, although maybe its too early too tell

[JaggedEdge]

If you smoke weed with mold, you may be spending some nights in the hospital due to a lung infection. It could cause some serious long term damage.

As for the rest of them, if there isn't any on them at the time, I would just leave them alone for a couple of days and see if any mold starts to grow on them.

[crf250smoker]

dude, thats just some DANK ass bud, live and learn is all i gotta say about that shit

[Kid Dynamite]

for fucks sake, ive read this whole thread, and all i can say is smoke some of that stuff and if you dont get sick or die then smoke the rest.


And report back what happens...

[bzbuzzard]

yea hell be fine

[afghooey]

the "dust" is just the crystals mold is not visible when it goes into the air

whispy smoke shit= crystals? wtf are you smoking man? I've smoked shitloads of weed and that doesn't happen. trichomes are sticky and dense, they're not whispy enough to float into the air when you're breaking apart your bud.

what he saw was MOLD SPORES. maybe harmless, maybe not. but yeah, that shit can sit latent in your lungs and spring up years later in a nice infection. And unless you're a really fucking skilled microbiologist there's no way you're gonna tell whether it's deadly or not by the smell.

hell, your weed, your body, your decision, but do yourself a favor and at least be educated about it.

[bzbuzzard]

hey man people live in houses where deadly mold spores float through the air for YEARS from flooding and thats high concentrations of it, over time it will cause lung cancer and other breathing problems. but if theres any mold in that weed its so0o0o small that one inhalation would be knocked out so fast by his immune system, if its even harmful to humans. unless your imuno supressed (aids or organ transplant) youll be fine thats why are bodys have an immune system. if its even mold.

[afghooey]

yeah, but people living in houses with mold don't stick the mold in a pipe and inhale it directly. :P if he's seeing little clouds of spores when he breaks the shit up imagine how many of those are going into his lungs when he takes a hit.

i'm no microbiologist, but that just doesn't sound all that healthy to me.

[dudewheresmysocks]

well thankfully im still ok, not feeling ill or anything so fingers crossed!

anyhow to end the tale i decided to post a pic of the new stuff i just got, which is really nice, and looks alot healthier, enjoy! and thanks for all your help!!

[TheBudBuster]

would it not be incinerated from the heat..very intense..

peace

[poiuyt]

Mold for sure.

[poiuyt]

I wouldn't have smoked it.

[Its a Plant]

Not only mold, but over a few months old mold....

Why bump this lol? :wtf:

[Skink]

Cool,,, the original post date is mu birthday...

[thebeancounter41]

Cool,,, the original post date is mu birthday...

That cinches it!You put the mold in moldy....LOL :D Whats up Skink?I dont see you at LM anymore.

[Murphchas]

I dont know about you guys but that whole bud looks like its covered in mold because the crystals arnt "sticking out" they are lick faltened and a weird milky white. Not like a white strain unless that is a white strain and its dense ass fuck

[666300]

Thats bogus, mold sucks!

[4gan2ja0]

Not only mold, but over a few months old mold....

Why bump this lol? :wtf:

i was wondering the exact same thing

[Tree_Burner]

that's a sick bud. i wouldn't blaze that :wtf: !

[originalblu]

fuck mold

[TOOL9]

man this shit trips me out. im so paranoid about smoking paranoid weed

[Skink]

That cinches it!You put the mold in moldy....LOL :D Whats up Skink?I dont see you at LM anymore.

tried to login one day and i was an invalid user,,,figured I was banished...

[Platinum Plus]

Looks like a spider got a hold of yo shit muthafucka! hahaha...
yea... i'm no expert but it looks like you can handle this... roger out...

[Jimbob1310]

it looks a bit TOO cristaly...unfortunately to be safe you would want to salvage as much as the inside as you can because the outside of your bud is contaminated

[DeepFriedBrain]

Did you say little GREEN balls?
Glass weed!!! Tap that bud over some paper to remove some of the 'trichomes', and try to press or rub them together. They should form small snotty balls of hash, but I suspect those green balls wont do diddley, 'cos it's glass.
Green resin? nahh.
And your weed is mouldy.
I was going to suggest drying the lot out and crumbling it down and doing a water separation in a jar, 'cos resin sinks, green floats and the mould stays floating in the water, but if there's green glass balls on your weed it would be hard to separate them from the resin.
Unless you vaporise.
You could rinse the mould off the weed and then vape the weed, as it doesn't have to burn, and it may get round the green glass issue.

[DeepFriedBrain]

Although on a second look, it may be mould that has evolved.

[game_bluntz]

IM not tryin to be a dick or anything but ur a dumbass...why would u smoke something that has been in the microwave, moldy, and months old...when u put it in the microwave it vapes the thc so y would u still smoke it...like someone said ur healths priceless...so its not about the money going down the drain...u sound like a crackhead over some crack...and im not really bashin you im just lettin u kno tho...its all good....did u get high...peace

[YouAintKnow]

My first reaction to those pictures is YES...def looks like something funky there...i've seen mold on weed and it does look like that...Yucky!! I wonder if you trip or something if you smoke it...

If by tripping you actually mean dying, then yes...you trip out if you smoke mold.

[sam44]

throw it away

[orangeman]

Wow this thread is so old, the link to the molded pic doesn't even work anymore. That molded bud is long gone :p.