Harvest & Curing White mold on dry bud 3 month old

You can salvage the buds by doing a water cure on them. Put them in a jar and cover them with water. Change the water everyday for a week. Then either dry it again or just use it wet to make oil or butter. Water curing will also remove most of the taste and smell, not the best for smoking, but it does make cleaner oil or butter.
 
Muddy said:
You can salvage the buds by doing a water cure on them. Put them in a jar and cover them with water. Change the water everyday for a week. Then either dry it again or just use it wet to make oil or butter. Water curing will also remove most of the taste and smell, not the best for smoking, but it does make cleaner oil or butter.
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This works i have done it.... Thing i would say is Dont have the water too cold(you will knock off the trich) and you will have to make sure the buds stay under water and keep flushing everyday until the water is clean(7-10days)....Also they dry Very Quickly when clean....

I have also used bud in Bubble Hash... No need to rinse it off just use as is.....
 
I will tell you what I did sucessfully with my 90g of Think Different before having excellent small hygrometer.

It was too wet when I started with curing but I was opening it daily. Then I wanted to collect some smell and let it closed for two days. When I opened the jar, I smelled that something was wrong. It was wrong. Buds were too wet and pushed together and boiled a little. And I was not airing enough.

Since the stuff looked weird and partially molded, especially in the middle, I put everything out to dry a little bit more than usual and I threw away all molded buds, I checked it bud by bud with magnifier. Since the processes were short (not like NL that I describe above) I had some hope but not much.

When the stuff was dry and a little bit cured after a month, it was like stuff that was not washed at the end (remember that all molded parts were removed, there were not many, I have checked buds through and through, do not leave any mold unremoved). Smoke was a little bit unpleasant, but I was guessing that it might correct with time passing. And it did.

Good luck but I do not know if your damage is comparable to mine. It is hard to tell without seeing it and knowing exactly what has been going on with buds and for how long.
 
mjdregba said:
thanks for looking m8, these buds are now out drying again - they took over three weeks before I jarred them (for a grand total of 3 days), then off the back of the other find I emptied them out into the grow box (with no lights on) to dry some more with a fan blowing over them - its the only bud I have left and I would rather smoke it too dry than moldy. My grow box is outside and is 7c ambient and 75% humidity at the minute.

Not all of it has this pale white through the centre, but a fair portion does.
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Forgot to tell you, 75 is far to high especially for buds that have already been attacked by mold. It lives between 90-100% RH but can start at as low as 80% in pockets of moisture. Your stuff is not drying, it is just sitting there because it already is on75% RH probably.
 
Gonzo said:
Forgot to tell you, 75 is far to high especially for buds that have already been attacked by mold. It lives between 90-100% RH but can start at as low as 80% in pockets of moisture. Your stuff is not drying, it is just sitting there because it already is on75% RH probably.
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Thanks Gonzo, I suspected as much when it they took 3 weeks to dry. The issue is with the location of the box, it is as good as sucking in outside moist air and hence also not worth putting a heat source inside since it gets sucked straight out.

What I will try next time is a tip from Seraphim about drying in paper bags in the grow room with the lights on. The idea is the paper bags protect from the light and the lights provide the proper heat - I can easy keep it at about 20c.

But my plan right now is to do what you say and pick out all the ones which look dodgy and any ones which develop... at the same time I will try and think of a way to put the light on and hide them from it. I would rather the smoke be harsh than have none - was even thinking of quick drying it low in the oven.
 
Quick update guys.

I went and checked this morning and I had to right off half the bud.... fortunatly the way I had harvested and dried I had split the bud into two due to two different Pheno types (a tall one and a short fat one). All the buds in the short fat ones smelled slightly wrong and all had a white(ish) centre, all of the tall ones were fine and smelled rather nice. I had more bud off the fat one, and the fat ones buds seemed to be taking much longer to dry, the tall ones buds are now almost over dry. So my guess is that because the fat one had more buds in the jar the hummidity was greater and mold started.

Fingers crossed that what is left does not develop, I will keep drying it another day or two.

Due to stealth, I have to dry in the grow box, this means when I use the hanging method that I cant grow at the same time, nor keep temps up. Next time I will try this bit of advice from Seraphim;

"I do 3 things to combat light damage and overdrying. 1. I use plant netting to make a pouch that I attach to the side of the grow space at the top. 2. I place buds in brown paper bags then into the pouch to dry 3. I cover the outside of the netting with a mylar sheet/black bag to block direct light."

Sorry Seraphim for quoting you without asking, but can I also ask you to post a pic illustrating as I cant envision point 3?

Thanks all for your help, this has been a good thread, I have seen a few posts asking about moldy dry bud, so I hope some of my pics and experience will be of benefit to others.
 
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It is not so big problem if it is dry.

If you dry buds in a very dry environment, if it is not overheated at the same time and yours is not, dry them in a paper bag until little hard on surface and small ones seem to be lets say dry (at least at first sight).

Then put them in a glass jar only half filled and do not close it. You will just make them dry slower because they will be together and protect each other from quick overdrying.

Then you dry the jar this way so that you rotate it frequently and buds do not stick together. If they do, shake a little bit, get them apart.

Very important things for you:

- buds must move, do not let them stick together and do not let them sit in peace for two long. Just go to your box frequently and rotate jar or jars. Mold occurs where there is no air movement for some time. And at least 80%RH in an small air pocket.
- you have to dry quicker as you would do it normally and be sure that buds get dry. No burping in closed jars. Buds must get lighter and dryer every day without breaks until you close them finally.
- when you think the stuff is dry and close it, it needs two days to make moisture evenly spread around so maybe it is not so dry at the end as seemed before so check regularly

After you get everything to 65%RH in the jar, that is humidity where bud can be smoked but you would wish it would be a little dryer. That is 60%, where buds taste the best. If you go lower you will not like them any more and is very hard or impossible to recover humidity back when overdried.
 
Final update; So yesterday evening I found a large(ish) brown paper bag and filled it with the remaining good bud.

I put the light on (300w CFL) and hung the bag above the reflector so it wasnt in direct light, the bag was also pretty thick. Had a fan blowing on the bag and exhaust fan was on keeping the room at about 19c - it was down to 7c without the light on.

After 2 hours the hummidity had dropped from 75% to 40% and after 24 hours the buds were absolutely bone dry.

I am definitly sold 100% on the paper bag method for my situation, and I just need the final part of the puzzle in how to block the light completely - was thinking bags inside a cardboard box. This way I can have a constant grow going with different strains maturing at different times - which would make me very happy :) - the silver lining
 
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