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The plant I found the mold on was drying with all my other plants. I need to check all of them or just the one with the mold?break it all open as you trim and check everything. anything with mold is garbage. you don't want it mixing with the stuff you can save for curing, it will take the good bud out.
The plant I found the mold on was drying with all my other plants. I need to check all of them or just the one with the mold?
I don't now what stage of the drying & curing process you are at but yes keep trimming and tossing infected buds. As @bluter says, you will have to go through all of them and check and include any that you might have already trimmed before noticing the bad one. The mold can jump from plant to plant and it can jump from one bud to the next if they are touching.Trimming and found some mold inside of a pretty big nug is my whole harvest trashed or should I throw that big nug away and keep trimming and curing the rest sorry about the bad picture but it’s very brown and fuzzy on the inside of the nug
Spot on - just done exactly that with my last Blue Dream after Mel spotted something and messaged meI don't now what stage of the drying & curing process you are at but yes keep trimming and tossing infected buds. As @bluter says, you will have to go through all of them and check and include any that you might have already trimmed before noticing the bad one. The mold can jump from plant to plant and it can jump from one bud to the next if they are touching.
I just went though the same sort of thing when pulling a couple of smaller plants that I had outside until Thursday. While cutting the plants I tossed any buds that had very obvious signs of Bud Rot and then while trimming the rest of it I kept checking and doing any fine-tuned timming or removal of bad buds that had signs.
Then did a wash of all the buds and stems that were left over in a Hydrogen Peroxide and water solution. I followed that with a wash in Lemon Juice and Baking Soda and two aggressive fresh water rinses. The harvest is on screens right now so any water can be dried off with a gently air movement from a fan. Later today I will put the dry buds into a bag or two and then into the kitchen fridge for a low and slow drying the green material to pull out any moisture in the stems and buds. So in two or three weeks it will be dry and mostly cured. Then it can go into the jars for storage.
My opinion is that you are better off keeping your buds out of the jars until all signs of mold have been removed, the buds washed at least with the Hydrogen Peroxide and then dried. Even one bud with still living mold in a jar will ruin the rest of them in the same jar. To be on the safe side do not pack the jars until the dry and cure is finished. Even if everything is done to the best of our ability there is the chance that a jar can go bad so no point in loosing to much of the harvest by cramming the jars full. Spread the harvest over a couple of jars if at all possible.
What’s the ratio you use for those washes? I only found a few nugs with mold and got rid of them right away I already finished trimming the plant and threw it in a jar last night but I don’t think it would hurt to wash the other ones finishing up in a same dry tent thank you guys for the helpI don't now what stage of the drying & curing process you are at but yes keep trimming and tossing infected buds. As @bluter says, you will have to go through all of them and check and include any that you might have already trimmed before noticing the bad one. The mold can jump from plant to plant and it can jump from one bud to the next if they are touching.
I just went though the same sort of thing when pulling a couple of smaller plants that I had outside until Thursday. While cutting the plants I tossed any buds that had very obvious signs of Bud Rot and then while trimming the rest of it I kept checking and doing any fine-tuned timming or removal of bad buds that had signs.
Then did a wash of all the buds and stems that were left over in a Hydrogen Peroxide and water solution. I followed that with a wash in Lemon Juice and Baking Soda and two aggressive fresh water rinses. The harvest is on screens right now so any water can be dried off with a gently air movement from a fan. Later today I will put the dry buds into a bag or two and then into the kitchen fridge for a low and slow drying the green material to pull out any moisture in the stems and buds. So in two or three weeks it will be dry and mostly cured. Then it can go into the jars for storage.
My opinion is that you are better off keeping your buds out of the jars until all signs of mold have been removed, the buds washed at least with the Hydrogen Peroxide and then dried. Even one bud with still living mold in a jar will ruin the rest of them in the same jar. To be on the safe side do not pack the jars until the dry and cure is finished. Even if everything is done to the best of our ability there is the chance that a jar can go bad so no point in loosing to much of the harvest by cramming the jars full. Spread the harvest over a couple of jars if at all possible.
My current basic method is for my average 'perpetual' harvest of 2 plants at a time with 3 1/2 to 4 ounces of trimmed bud after drying. No idea what the fresh weight is since I do not get out the scale just to know that. The method involves trimming the buds which might take me two or more days 'cause I hate trimming. Some of the stems still have the trimmed buds on them as a way to control moisture for a low and slow "dry & cure". What I do and some of what I see happening in each step is going to be mentioned along with the ratios.What’s the ratio you use for those washes?
There is the chance that there are the very beginnings of mold starting to grow on the remaining buds. So close to just starting that any problem will not be visible. And being in a jar the molds can still grow for awhile as long as there is plant sap or plant juice of whatever we want to call it still in the buds. In all seriousness, if it will not hurt to wash the buds still waiting to be processed then it will not hurt to take care of the ones already in the jar while you are at it.I only found a few nugs with mold and got rid of them right away I already finished trimming the plant and threw it in a jar last night but I don’t think it would hurt to wash the other ones finishing up in a same dry tent
The resin will not be knocked off at all, so no effect on potencyThis is all new to me. I have to ask, what would that do to the overall potency of the weed after all the baths? I understand its not going 'dissolve' the trichomes, but wouldn't the sheer physicality knock a ton of them off anyway?
Not a ton, maybe one out of a thousand might break off from the sugar leaf or whatever it formed on. And if I have to sacrifice that one out a thousand to keep mold or mildew away then it sounds like a good deal to me.I understand its not going 'dissolve' the trichomes, but wouldn't the sheer physicality knock a ton of them off anyway?