Hi guys,
I recently harvested two plants, one on March 25th and the other on April 1st, and after having the buds dry for approximately 4 days each, they went into glass jars, getting burped at least once a day for like 20 minutes, sometimes more. This went on for about 4 weeks for the first buds and 3 weeks for the second plant. At that point everything seemed to be go along well (smells, flavors getting better), and the buds seemed like they were dry enough, so I left the jar closed for about 4 days so that I would stop opening it every time I looked at the beautiful jar of buds. Today I decided to take them out of the closet and take a look at them, and when I opened the jars to smell them, the smell was different...a somewhat sour smell...
I looked at all the buds from both jars, and unfortunately in one jar, there was 1 small bud (on the top of the jar) with a bit of cobweb/moth-nest white stuff. I immediately pulled out all the buds to inspect, and that was the only bit of white material that I found. However, like I said, the buds do seem to have taken a different smell, something less heady smelling and a bit more pungent odor. I also am currently sick and was dealing with a lot of congestion last night, so that might be effecting it, however like I said I did find the tiniest bit of mold on one of the buds of one jar.
From what I've read, mold and thrichomes can be pretty easily confused, but I was wondering if someone could take a look at these two pictures and let me know what they think. I have taken a sample bud from each jar.
I really hope that maybe my nose is just playing tricks on me and I'm sick, but there definitely was a tiny bit of mold on one bud in one jar. Does that mean that all the buds in that jar are starting a process of decay? Is there anything that I can do? Is smoking moldy bud really that bad fro you?
For now I am just leaving them in the jars with the lid off
Thanks for all your advice...
I recently harvested two plants, one on March 25th and the other on April 1st, and after having the buds dry for approximately 4 days each, they went into glass jars, getting burped at least once a day for like 20 minutes, sometimes more. This went on for about 4 weeks for the first buds and 3 weeks for the second plant. At that point everything seemed to be go along well (smells, flavors getting better), and the buds seemed like they were dry enough, so I left the jar closed for about 4 days so that I would stop opening it every time I looked at the beautiful jar of buds. Today I decided to take them out of the closet and take a look at them, and when I opened the jars to smell them, the smell was different...a somewhat sour smell...
I looked at all the buds from both jars, and unfortunately in one jar, there was 1 small bud (on the top of the jar) with a bit of cobweb/moth-nest white stuff. I immediately pulled out all the buds to inspect, and that was the only bit of white material that I found. However, like I said, the buds do seem to have taken a different smell, something less heady smelling and a bit more pungent odor. I also am currently sick and was dealing with a lot of congestion last night, so that might be effecting it, however like I said I did find the tiniest bit of mold on one of the buds of one jar.
From what I've read, mold and thrichomes can be pretty easily confused, but I was wondering if someone could take a look at these two pictures and let me know what they think. I have taken a sample bud from each jar.
I really hope that maybe my nose is just playing tricks on me and I'm sick, but there definitely was a tiny bit of mold on one bud in one jar. Does that mean that all the buds in that jar are starting a process of decay? Is there anything that I can do? Is smoking moldy bud really that bad fro you?
For now I am just leaving them in the jars with the lid off
Thanks for all your advice...
