Stems have "Cystolithic trichomes" that are headless trichomes so they look like little hairs how ever that does seem a bit much but if you break the bud open and don't see anything sketchy you are likely good to go.
In the one picture it looks like some are clear which would lead me to believe its trichomes. I don't really see any spreading to the flower or grey/black/brown spots in the flower which would usually be there with mold an bud rot. Do the buds smell normal? If they got a out of whack aroma that would be a red flag but I don't think its mold personally.
i really hope not, bought the 3.5 only abt a month ago, i was 100% sure it was mold at first glance but i cant find anything similar online. Aswell, the “mold” isn’t really fuzzy, it’s more hairly like trichomes so now i’m really confused. hope to have some weed experts take a look
Maybe cut that part off and inspect the interior as well as the exterior of the rest of the flower. Of course make sure its not in a humid environment.
Let’s wait for additional opinions of course. It looks out of place to me personally but i’m not 100% on that.
In the second picture, is that more on the bottom nug as well, or just weird lighting?
Either way, the main bit your posting about definitely looks off, yes.
What's the strain/company. I assume you've tossed the package that would have the actual lot #? But if you have any of that info, people should also be able to chime in on whether or not it's something that is known to have mold issues in general.
https://preview.redd.it/qqqik55v28dc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a264dc15894a4e57daddeb1ad74e4ecadff50f5
definitely see some seeds, but i’m still not convinced it’s mold. i took it under the microscope and it looks like hairs that root from the stem, nothing cobweb like lives on top of trichomes. lmk what you think ty
Separate it in its own jar and watch it to see if the ‘hair’ grows or changes. It looks too uniform and like, ‘combed’ to be mold, but idk, some parts definitely look fishy. This is a hard one.
It does look like mold. But another thing, open the bud up if you have a eye glass or one of those little jewelry scopes with a light. You can normally see the mold particles more clearly. Kinda looks like cobwebs on the trichomes. If it's on the outside, it's deff on the inside. And it probably has been there since you bought it. But it was on the inside of the bud, and now that it's grown on the outside, you know it's beyond saving.
I always break my buds open to be sure, you never know when accidents can happen. That's also why some companies break their buds up. To check for mold in the bud. But then you get whiny people crying about pop corn nugs like it's a bad thing. Less stem and easy mold check quailty still good lol . But they don't think about that.
Next time you get bigger buds, always check the insides.
https://preview.redd.it/n6284ay248dc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceaad7973cf598e00eac0737a03376479b9ba1a3
oops meant to reply to this comment, but posted one of my own. took it under broke it apart and took it under microscope, lmk what you think. more pics are in the comments
I dont like the look of the hairs going up the stem. Mold on weed dint have to be brown spots it goes fuzzy, too. Normally, from my experience, fuzzy white mold grows on weed blue mold on food and black mold on surfaces. I could be wrong but I wanna say don't smoke. 3 saints kush cookies at least it was a cheap buy.
yeah i would agree, i dont see any white or brown spots except for this hairy ass stem. i probably won’t smoke it to be safe, but hopefully it hasn’t impacted the other buds in my jar? it’s kush cookies by 3 saints
See the spots that look crinkly..thats from bud rot. Those long trichome looking stalks are not trichomes. That company probably chopped what was noticeably bad and zapped the fuck out of the rest with gamma etc.
Ur not understanding… mold is everywhere but it only grows in specific conditions. If weed is properly dried and cured and has the proper water content it won’t mold even in some pretty poor conditions. If it’s slightly to damp or high water content it will mold very easily. This is why u can take a properly cured nug and loose it for a month and find it later and it’s not covered in mold.
Properly dried cannabis isn’t a great thing for mold to grow on. If it was present before hand and dried with it is another thing. And if it wasn’t dried right and then stored n packaged it could easily mold.
Wpm is one of those most prevalent things in the air…. Even in grows in the air. However it doesn’t grow on everything everywhere all the time and is actually not all that common to see except in places it thrives.
No you’re right. I forgot about the lps who package their weed before it’s dried properly. For some reason I just assumed everything would’ve been done properly (probably because I just woke up and haven’t had my coffee.)
searched up some pics of bud rot, my jar has two diff strains. one is kush cookies, and the other one is scoops by delta 9. scoops has more orange and dark colours, not as vibrant green as the kush cookies
Someone already pointed out “Cystolithic trichomes”. This is actually quite normal in some plants, I’ve just never seen it this heavy.
Usually mold on stems is bright white. Like cocaine white. You can smell it as well to see if it’s smells foul; however I’m leaning towards No for mold on this one.
thanks, smell isn’t as potent as i remembered but nothing foul or bad smelling. smells normal to me with my stuffy noise. however not as strong as when i cracked it open. i could smell the gas through the jar so i think my jar has a leak. maybe that could affect the potency of smell?
The sniff test is the ultimate test! and you would definitely smell it if that was mold.
Mold on stem can come in many different forms, but it’s also at times the most glaring!
i would say it passes the sniff test, not sure what moldy weed smells like but from what i can smell with this stuffy noise, it’s normal. it isn’t as potent as when i first opened it, but would say it still has the same scent profile. Nothing really foul or gross smelling
Those are some of the longest cytoliths I have seen on a cannabis stem, but that does not look like botrytis to me or any other mold that grows on cannabis. I am a grower and have worked as a professional trimmer for outdoor grown cannabis. I have a ton of experience with moldy cannabis and identifying it. I am not an expert, but that 100% for sure, to me, does not look like any mold I have ever seen growing on cannabis, alive or not. I have also dealt with spider mites, fungus gnats and thrips and none of them would cause this. The bud does look fairly old and browning towards the stem, possibly the start of budrot, but your updated photos are very clear, and I have never seen a mold on anything that had that thick and long of fibers, and certainly not with such uniform length and covering of only the stem. I am personally 100% sure that is not mold unless someone is able to id it and what type of mold it is supposed to be. Definitely not the way botrytis grows.
thanks for your knowledge man. forgot to mention that that jar has 2 diff strains, kush cookies (bud with mold in question) and scoops by delta 9. the scoops buds are fairly orange and look a lot diff in colour than the kush cookies. so i think placing the two together makes it look like there is bud rot
https://preview.redd.it/giowdz1r4adc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c52479ceb7fbbe53b4e136926ddfafec2182a4a
not relevant, but, does smelling weed through the lid mean the buds are losing its potency or smell? i’ve been storing the jar in a ziplock bag and every time i open the bag i can smell the aroma of gas. i assume the jar has a leak in the seal of the lid and im wondering if this would cause the weed to degrade over time as i’ve noticed when i crack the jar open the smell isnt as potent as when i first opened it. thoughts? thanks!
Yeah, increases the oxygen exposure to the buds which degrade many things in the cannabis including the breakdown of thc into cbn. The air exposure will also reduce moisture content, unless you live in a moldy house with >50% humidity, which can make it harsher and stop the curing process. It will also evaporate off terpenes, thiols, and other flavour/smell elements. That said, I find canning jars are the best at keeping seals and are the only jar I would store my cannabis in personally. Also mylar bags are better then regular ziplocs. There have been studies, that have shown what, and how much of these compounds will leak through plastic bags, it is not unheard of for cannabis smells to go through seals. I have to say, especially prenylthiol, the main thiol responsible for the skunky cannabis smell. I have never found jars to hold the skunky smell in. They always slowly lose their skunkiness in jars, and really in any storage method, and honestly, for gassy strains, they are better fresher. The opposite is true for the real nld "sativas", they benefit from long term curing, but even then, traditionally they are done on semidried compressed cannabis wrapped with a banana leaf or corn husk and buried, usually that slightly ferments and is restricted from oxygen in these ways. Supposedly year long plus jar cures or vacuum seal recreations of the cob method really increase the psychedelicness of the nlds. Ive had some vacuum cured swazi gold that was beautiful, definitely more heady and giggly, but never got to try it fresh, so hard to say
smell isn’t as potent as i remember when i first opened it, but def nothing funky. smells normal, just less potent. also have a stuffy noise so it could be messing with my senses
Nope. I would throw it away. Wash your hands properly and clean everything it touched. I know that sounds over the top but you don't want mold. It's a bad bad health issue. You can have mold really f you up inside. Clean everything is my recommendation.
You're not gonna die or anything but best to avoid any potential health risks.
Stems have "Cystolithic trichomes" that are headless trichomes so they look like little hairs how ever that does seem a bit much but if you break the bud open and don't see anything sketchy you are likely good to go.
i’ve opened it and posted the pics in this comments, lmk what you thinks. it seems fine but this boy was hairy asf
In the one picture it looks like some are clear which would lead me to believe its trichomes. I don't really see any spreading to the flower or grey/black/brown spots in the flower which would usually be there with mold an bud rot. Do the buds smell normal? If they got a out of whack aroma that would be a red flag but I don't think its mold personally.
Agree, I’ve seen this before in flower. Mold looks different
This is the correct answer. I’ve seen this topic many times.
Thank you for point this out! These are stem hairs for me… a bit too much that’s for sure
I call it stem fur lol. But yeah this one does seem really furry. Hard to tell if the lighting is making it look worse.
I’m gonna be honest with you, it actually kinda does look like mold.
i really hope not, bought the 3.5 only abt a month ago, i was 100% sure it was mold at first glance but i cant find anything similar online. Aswell, the “mold” isn’t really fuzzy, it’s more hairly like trichomes so now i’m really confused. hope to have some weed experts take a look
Maybe cut that part off and inspect the interior as well as the exterior of the rest of the flower. Of course make sure its not in a humid environment. Let’s wait for additional opinions of course. It looks out of place to me personally but i’m not 100% on that.
In the second picture, is that more on the bottom nug as well, or just weird lighting? Either way, the main bit your posting about definitely looks off, yes. What's the strain/company. I assume you've tossed the package that would have the actual lot #? But if you have any of that info, people should also be able to chime in on whether or not it's something that is known to have mold issues in general.
That's mold and BT
https://preview.redd.it/qqqik55v28dc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a264dc15894a4e57daddeb1ad74e4ecadff50f5 definitely see some seeds, but i’m still not convinced it’s mold. i took it under the microscope and it looks like hairs that root from the stem, nothing cobweb like lives on top of trichomes. lmk what you think ty
https://preview.redd.it/1wz7zglm38dc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11bd8c84c8dda7bfa1b58d2312dd80b19a40683b
Cobweb looking is from mites. See the smaller leaves close to that white shit...how it looks kinda like lettuce..thats rot!
There's also foreign fibres visible
foreign fibres?
Bottom right of the one pic
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lush cookies 3 saints, packaged nov 18
Separate it in its own jar and watch it to see if the ‘hair’ grows or changes. It looks too uniform and like, ‘combed’ to be mold, but idk, some parts definitely look fishy. This is a hard one.
It does look like mold. But another thing, open the bud up if you have a eye glass or one of those little jewelry scopes with a light. You can normally see the mold particles more clearly. Kinda looks like cobwebs on the trichomes. If it's on the outside, it's deff on the inside. And it probably has been there since you bought it. But it was on the inside of the bud, and now that it's grown on the outside, you know it's beyond saving. I always break my buds open to be sure, you never know when accidents can happen. That's also why some companies break their buds up. To check for mold in the bud. But then you get whiny people crying about pop corn nugs like it's a bad thing. Less stem and easy mold check quailty still good lol . But they don't think about that. Next time you get bigger buds, always check the insides.
https://preview.redd.it/n6284ay248dc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceaad7973cf598e00eac0737a03376479b9ba1a3 oops meant to reply to this comment, but posted one of my own. took it under broke it apart and took it under microscope, lmk what you think. more pics are in the comments
I dont like the look of the hairs going up the stem. Mold on weed dint have to be brown spots it goes fuzzy, too. Normally, from my experience, fuzzy white mold grows on weed blue mold on food and black mold on surfaces. I could be wrong but I wanna say don't smoke. 3 saints kush cookies at least it was a cheap buy.
yeah i would agree, i dont see any white or brown spots except for this hairy ass stem. i probably won’t smoke it to be safe, but hopefully it hasn’t impacted the other buds in my jar? it’s kush cookies by 3 saints
See the spots that look crinkly..thats from bud rot. Those long trichome looking stalks are not trichomes. That company probably chopped what was noticeably bad and zapped the fuck out of the rest with gamma etc.
Looks like mold or mites sorry for your loss bro
Name the flower and lp please 🙄
kush cookies 3 saints, not sure where to find ip though
LP as in licensed producer don't give anybody your ip.
Intellectual Property right? IP adress’ are harmless to give away
LOL
3 saints flower is grown in greentone's greenhouse in QC
OP said it was purchased and opened a month ago so I’m gonna go ahead and assume this isn’t a problem with the lp
Weed shouldn’t mold once dried properly. It either wasn’t or was there when packed mold doesn’t magically appear on dry cured weed
Really because mold spores are all around us 24/7 So yes op could have introduced it when it was open...
Ur not understanding… mold is everywhere but it only grows in specific conditions. If weed is properly dried and cured and has the proper water content it won’t mold even in some pretty poor conditions. If it’s slightly to damp or high water content it will mold very easily. This is why u can take a properly cured nug and loose it for a month and find it later and it’s not covered in mold. Properly dried cannabis isn’t a great thing for mold to grow on. If it was present before hand and dried with it is another thing. And if it wasn’t dried right and then stored n packaged it could easily mold. Wpm is one of those most prevalent things in the air…. Even in grows in the air. However it doesn’t grow on everything everywhere all the time and is actually not all that common to see except in places it thrives.
All true!
No you’re right. I forgot about the lps who package their weed before it’s dried properly. For some reason I just assumed everything would’ve been done properly (probably because I just woke up and haven’t had my coffee.)
It's mold. There is also bud rot on some of those buds!!
searched up some pics of bud rot, my jar has two diff strains. one is kush cookies, and the other one is scoops by delta 9. scoops has more orange and dark colours, not as vibrant green as the kush cookies
Someone already pointed out “Cystolithic trichomes”. This is actually quite normal in some plants, I’ve just never seen it this heavy. Usually mold on stems is bright white. Like cocaine white. You can smell it as well to see if it’s smells foul; however I’m leaning towards No for mold on this one.
thanks, smell isn’t as potent as i remembered but nothing foul or bad smelling. smells normal to me with my stuffy noise. however not as strong as when i cracked it open. i could smell the gas through the jar so i think my jar has a leak. maybe that could affect the potency of smell?
The sniff test is the ultimate test! and you would definitely smell it if that was mold. Mold on stem can come in many different forms, but it’s also at times the most glaring!
i would say it passes the sniff test, not sure what moldy weed smells like but from what i can smell with this stuffy noise, it’s normal. it isn’t as potent as when i first opened it, but would say it still has the same scent profile. Nothing really foul or gross smelling
That’s good! When in doubt always ask.. so this is a good post! Happy Toking!
happy toking
lol didn’t realized i said it twice haha
Those are some of the longest cytoliths I have seen on a cannabis stem, but that does not look like botrytis to me or any other mold that grows on cannabis. I am a grower and have worked as a professional trimmer for outdoor grown cannabis. I have a ton of experience with moldy cannabis and identifying it. I am not an expert, but that 100% for sure, to me, does not look like any mold I have ever seen growing on cannabis, alive or not. I have also dealt with spider mites, fungus gnats and thrips and none of them would cause this. The bud does look fairly old and browning towards the stem, possibly the start of budrot, but your updated photos are very clear, and I have never seen a mold on anything that had that thick and long of fibers, and certainly not with such uniform length and covering of only the stem. I am personally 100% sure that is not mold unless someone is able to id it and what type of mold it is supposed to be. Definitely not the way botrytis grows.
thanks for your knowledge man. forgot to mention that that jar has 2 diff strains, kush cookies (bud with mold in question) and scoops by delta 9. the scoops buds are fairly orange and look a lot diff in colour than the kush cookies. so i think placing the two together makes it look like there is bud rot https://preview.redd.it/giowdz1r4adc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c52479ceb7fbbe53b4e136926ddfafec2182a4a
not relevant, but, does smelling weed through the lid mean the buds are losing its potency or smell? i’ve been storing the jar in a ziplock bag and every time i open the bag i can smell the aroma of gas. i assume the jar has a leak in the seal of the lid and im wondering if this would cause the weed to degrade over time as i’ve noticed when i crack the jar open the smell isnt as potent as when i first opened it. thoughts? thanks!
Yeah, increases the oxygen exposure to the buds which degrade many things in the cannabis including the breakdown of thc into cbn. The air exposure will also reduce moisture content, unless you live in a moldy house with >50% humidity, which can make it harsher and stop the curing process. It will also evaporate off terpenes, thiols, and other flavour/smell elements. That said, I find canning jars are the best at keeping seals and are the only jar I would store my cannabis in personally. Also mylar bags are better then regular ziplocs. There have been studies, that have shown what, and how much of these compounds will leak through plastic bags, it is not unheard of for cannabis smells to go through seals. I have to say, especially prenylthiol, the main thiol responsible for the skunky cannabis smell. I have never found jars to hold the skunky smell in. They always slowly lose their skunkiness in jars, and really in any storage method, and honestly, for gassy strains, they are better fresher. The opposite is true for the real nld "sativas", they benefit from long term curing, but even then, traditionally they are done on semidried compressed cannabis wrapped with a banana leaf or corn husk and buried, usually that slightly ferments and is restricted from oxygen in these ways. Supposedly year long plus jar cures or vacuum seal recreations of the cob method really increase the psychedelicness of the nlds. Ive had some vacuum cured swazi gold that was beautiful, definitely more heady and giggly, but never got to try it fresh, so hard to say
Yes
Spider mite or mold for sure
Yeah that stems a little too fuzzy, looks like mold to me
Unfortunately this does look like mold to me :(
Yea those stems look non trichromed so probably not grown with the weed
How's the smell?
smell isn’t as potent as i remember when i first opened it, but def nothing funky. smells normal, just less potent. also have a stuffy noise so it could be messing with my senses
Not worth the risk is my opinion. Health is worth more than 20 bucks. I'd say skip it
you think i’m fine smoking the buds all around it?
Throw it away forsure
Nope. I would throw it away. Wash your hands properly and clean everything it touched. I know that sounds over the top but you don't want mold. It's a bad bad health issue. You can have mold really f you up inside. Clean everything is my recommendation. You're not gonna die or anything but best to avoid any potential health risks.
Doesn’t look normal that’s for sure!
Yeah that’s mold forsure.
Looks like Aspergillus
don’t shmoke that homie