Quote Originally Posted by MMJinColorado
This strain recently won 2nd place at the Aspen Cannabis Crown. I feel sorry for anyone who was up there judging, based on these pics. It's either some really severe and weirdly web-like powdery mildew or an equally bad mites problem... what do you experienced grower types think?

I want to make clear that I'm not in the business of disparaging any dispensaries or anyone in general for that matter... I am, however, in the business of spreading information to MMJ patients, especially where safety might be involved. Judge for yourselves if this is something you wouldn't mind smoking (it's a bit hard to capture it well, as retaining focus on something so small and with depth is near-impossible with my microscope)..

Perhaps the bigger worry to MMJ consumers beyond the fact that tainted meds were supposedly good enough to win the Crown (I didn't smoke any of the sample I have for obvious reasons, but it smells great and I could certainly see it placing in a competition) is that from my understanding, the samples competing were supposedly all tested by Full Spectrum for mold and pesticides. If that is true and this strain got through their testing regimen, I don't even know what to say, and I will be uber-paranoid about everything I smoke, tested or not...

Just had to put this out there somewhere... I hesitate to publish the pictures and the info on my blog without giving the dispensary a chance to respond, but at the same time, I worry about anyone who is going there to purchase "prize-winning" Grape Ape and end up with a collapsed lung after the vaporize their purchase and don't kill the spores...
Looks like fungus mycorrhizae to me. May or may not be harmful but should dq the sample.