I guess what I'm really asking about is the dark sections of leaf. While the color is like a caramel... it isn't dirty brown town. It has also been seedless so far. After seeing pics of mold/bud rot... I'm just trying to make sure that dark grey/black leaves aren't a definitive sign of that. Those "thread like hairs" were just that... almost like a couple strands of a spiders web when viewed under a 60x. No way visible to the naked eye. I'd imagine that there are contaminates in most all the bud we get. It just seems odd that the first set of bud I get to look at under micro would have questionable characteristics.

So... if it smells like the chronic... tastes like the chronic... works like the chronic... looks like some frosty gold sensi... but has a few microscopic webby threads and some dark/black leaves... is it normal? Especially since that online photo looks similar to what I have... I'm guessing that dark leaves aren't a definite sign of mold/rot.

It's hard to think that after all this time and probably smoking over 15 lbs. of bud from some of the shadiest sources imaginable... that this would be the batch that makes me nervous. Haha. Honestly, if I didn't have a magnifier I would smoke this shit until I'm red in the face. It's since I've looked at it on a microscopic level that I ask myself "WTF am I smoking?"

Edit: Took a minute to write that... Thanks for the input Dutch and Killerweed :hippy:
TheMetal1 Reviewed by TheMetal1 on . Advice on new bud.... Not sure where this thread should go... but anyway... I have never had the chance to look at buds under a magnifier until recently. It's really like a whole other world when you can view the plant at that level. The only bad part... now I am completely OCD when it comes to analyzing them. Through reading some threads and looking at pictures, I know what moldy bud should look like. I have never had the pleasure (?) of learning first hand. Basically, I am writing this because I have worked Rating: 5