major odour issue

[sirruler]

appart from the bud rot yup it really is ive been reading a LOT of other posts in this section and ive learned a lot from all the replys.
i started with 4 seeds in the beginning of the year, took clones from each one by one over a period of months. 1st load turned out male, 2nd load turned out male and 3rd load turned out male, last seed turned out female (thank jah :thumbsup: ) but she had mites all over but i thought what the hell lets keep cloning her and hope for the best. took 16 clones from her, gave away 8 and kept 8, used cheap tacky growbag soil but fed her when needed. i finally got my xmas smoke thanks to this forum :thumbsup:
i dont normally flower them i just grow a mother and clone the hell out of her for friends. i have cloning to perfection but the actual growing in flowering stage is where i get stuck. thanks

sirruler Reviewed by sirruler on 10-24-2008. major odour issue Hi peeps im wondering if someone would offer some good advice. ive cut some of my crop down today and trimmed them right back to the bud removing all fan leaves and smaller leaves on the bud infact as many leaves as i could see but its stinking my home out badly and it can be smelt from outside :D is it best to just chop and take off the fan leaves then hang? also if it is best to do that is it a good idea to remove all smaller leaves after its dried? the reason i ask is because when i trim Rating: 5

[sirruler]

stinky was deffinatly right, today i went back into my attic and checked the ones that i have already hung up and some tiny bits of mould which were left had grown a little more i have now checked all of them and removed anything that looks remotley like mould, one of the buds i had to remove half of it.
i dont know how big the buds actually grow but i chopped my biggest then trimmed it and weighed it while it was still fresh, it weighed 9.8 ounces but after i removed all the mouldy bits i weighed it again and then it weighed 8.9 ounces. i have no idea how much it will weigh when its dry but im looking forward to finding out i even found mould on the walls where i'd not moved the plant.
mould Grrrrr

[Wobster]

Dude, I feel for ya. Bud rot is an nasty thing and tends to go much deeper than you can physically see on the surface. It's a hard lesson to learn but very valuable aswell. The humidity of your grow room whilst flowering was probly the cause.

Make sure to trim past the rot... at least an inch imo and get it gone. Dont handle any un-infected parts after you've touched any of the rot or u will unwittingly transfer the mold spores. Id also dry it as quick as you can.

I'd throw any mouldy weed away. I had some mouldy weed and I thought what harm can it do. I smoked it and half way down the joint I felt my lungs going really tight. I could only take very shallow breaths and if I tried to breathe deeper I would cough, which made me breath deeper, which made me keep coughing in a viscious circle. It was quite a scary experience and Id never smoke mouldy weed again.

[sirruler]

there's a pretty big pile of mouldy bud that ive trimmed off, ive put it in the freezer as i was gonna make some hash oil but i think i will take your word for it and bin it. its a shame cos i think there would have been at least an ounce after it dried maybe even more. it was definatly humidity that was the cause because the ceiling was dripping wet and was always dropping on to the buds. i had no way to get rid of the moisture fast enough.

i also think i grew too much in a small space where 8 large pots in a small cuppboard and the pots took up most of the room. couldnt fit anymore in there. next time im only going to do 3 or 4. its been so long since ive flowered one that i actually forgot how big they grow so i guess all that soil which was filled with water was the cause of the super high humidity. on the bright side i didnt lose the lot and xmas is now covered

[Wobster]

Hmm, I think Ive read about salvaging mouldy weed by making it into hash oil or using the ice and water extraction. It would be worth looking into it a bit more seeing as u have a fair amount. I smoked it directly and it had a horrendous effect but if you can extract the THC cleanly then you should be ok.

[stinkyattic]

REad the washed cannabutter sticky in edibles. The washing process is effective at removing contaminants, and the sustained heat kills pathogens.