Hi Jango -
I've been there brother. I lost between 2-3z on a harvest a while back because of a brainfart where a few jars didn't get burped like the others. Mold. Yuck!
Then I learned a couple of things.
- Water curing can be done even with moldy buds, (budrot) and if done right it will eliminate the nasties, and leave you with the good parts. You can salvage what you thought was lost this way. A grower (now known as George Parker here) did that, and so have others. It works, and you can salvage stuff you thought was toast.
- I've also heard you can use moldy bud for making canna-oil to cook with, and not have to worry about the mold
Here's a link to the water curing thread that I think could be of help:
Water Cure, The Members' Thread
I realize it may be too late for what you threw away, but in case any more of this bites you, this might be of some use. It's saved a few peoples bacon around here. Good luck, and sorry to hear about the bud-rot.
I threw away almost 3z, and then someone said, "Oh, you should have water cured!". Damn! Hope you don't need it, but if you do hope it helps.
Lastly, you had a great grow -- don't forget it. Glad you are moving forward positively. It's all about the learnin' brotha!
Can't wait to see the new NFT system.
About two weeks left, switching the nutes from bloom to ripen today for a week and then a week for flush. Might possibly go two weeks on ripen depending on how they look! Clones are looking fantastic, 5 are in dirt for a friend and the rest got put in net cups and given 1/4 nutes for my upcoming sog grow. More clones taken yesterday, mostly NL and a few SW as last time it was the opposite so i thought id give me SW mom a little more time to recover, took about 20 total. Did it slightly different this time. Last time i lightly scraped the skin on them but noticed that pretty much all of the roots started above where i had scraped them before. Also i plan on doing a much better job of changing the water for them cause for the last batch i left the same water in there for a few weeks so i plan on giving them fresh water weekly which is what i should have done anyways!
Wow Jango, you really are doing a great job my friend! You're gunna have your hands full soo buddy!!
Good call on changing the water more often, I did'nt change mine for around 17 days either, and a little scum was starting to form on the sides and bottom. 'Course I didn't know that until I had finished with the cloner and they all had roots. Should be better for them though. What nutes are you using in the cloner again?
and as soon as betty is done they're going in to flower 
I had to let my friend know that if they dont come get the 5 clones i put in dirt really soon that they are about to stay mine cause they are looking way too beautiful and i might just get too attached to let them go! Here's a couple pics of all the clones, also the last batch i took are 7 days in and 1 has teeny little roots and the rest have the callouses they get right before the roots pop soo thats great too!
I was doing some last minute maintenance for my girls and the lights in the flower room went off, upon so i noticed what i consider to be WAY to much light shining through down the whole side seam of the room against the concrete wall. Now when i say way to much i dont mean like it was really bright in there but if im going for 100% dark and im only at 98% dark then i consider that to be waay to much light. How much this affected my plants in the last month im not sure but i just wish i would have noticed it a lot sooner! 
sir! Well said lol. I guess i shouldnt worry about it much at all especially with how horrendously stressed my brothers plants were that i took over and they still did just fine! Not to mention how rough the guys were handling the big bang in the video X posted the other day! Jeepers! I guess at the end of the day these wonderful plants are waaaay tougher than you would ever think. Im putting a video at the bottom of this post that shows just that! 
Increased ventilation with another fan and no signs of it anywhere else. Had to butcher what i had hoped was going to be a bud of the month and instead had to throw 11g of it away. Humidity was at 70%, way to stinkin high but ive been completely at the mercy of summer these last few weeks and the basement humidity has been a big problem as well as res temps cause of the heat, air is the only one ive really been able to control and even that has been at about 80 the whole time. The heat wave coming this week is sure to make things even worse. 
with the water cure. Wish I would have figured it out before it was too late!
