Tragedy Strikes! An early harvest ensues.

[Ace Yonder]

It was with sorrowful eyes I gazed upon my discovery. Mold. A week straight of shitty overcast weather and 80%+ humidity have joined forces with a sudden invasion of bud worms to wreak havoc upon my crop. Several main colas were beyond saving, as were numerous large branches. I quickly went to work, removing the infected sections with extreme prejudice. After that, I decided an early harvest would be better than no harvest, so over the past week I have been selectively harvesting branches and colas that seem to me to be most at risk. Sucks that I couldn't let them go as long as I think they could, but whatever it's better than nothing. Considering how much I am losing to mold, I am actually pretty happy with the amount that I have been able to salvage completely mold free. Here are some of the harvested buds drying (Can see the color difference between the ones harvested days ago and the ones harvested more recently). One plus is that this grow was entirely bagseed, so next year I can get some real genetics that have a resistance to pests and mold, there are some perfect clone cuts and promising seeds floating around the local dispensaries.

 

[DutchHaze]

just be careful. U don't want to smoke mold.

 

[tomascat]

looks like u managed to have a fairly good harvest, how many did u have?

 

[DeeTee]

I'd be a little leery, there could be mold unseen on the outside, but inside the buds, hope it all works out for you, it is a nice amount of harvest considering, as you said, fortunately it was bag seed.

 

[Ace Yonder]

@tomascat So far I've harvested about 1/4th of the plants, the rest are still filling in.
@DeeTee I have been pretty thorough inspecting the insides of the buds down to the stems with my jewelers loupe for any signs of mold, and throwing away any that have it, I am pretty certain that none of the hung buds have it, and any they may have that escapes the eye is nothing that's gonna hurt me, I know I've smoked a lot of much sketchier weed in my lifetime hahaha. Just sad because I have lost about 1/3rd of what I have harvested to mold.

Anyone got good suggestions of strains that are exceptionally mold resistant? I live right next to the beach in Nor Cal, so I routinely have to deal with 80%+ humidity. I've heard good things about Super Lemon Haze (Original Haze was created in my area), but the closest I can get to SLH around here is Lemon Chunk (SLH x Deep Chunk), and I don't know how the DC genetics affect the mold resistance. Right now my front runner is Cascadian Blue by Swami Seeds as they say it was bred specifically for resistance, but $160 for a 10 pack of beans seems steep when I can get most other genetics (Bodhi, TGA, MTG, etc.) for around $50-80 for 10+ beans.

 

[Ace Yonder]

Realized that I forgot the obligatory vessel of liquid for scale comparison.

 

[Ace Yonder]

Annnnnnd now it's raining. Guess the rest is gonna get the axe ASAP

 

[amgprb]

If you have any doubts that you removed ALL of the mold - then blast all of that shit with tane or make some iso

 

[Ace Yonder]

If you have any doubts that you removed ALL of the mold - then blast all of that shit with tane or make some iso

I'm not too worried. Everything has been inspected very carefully, and if a bud was moldy I tossed the whole bud instead of cutting out the mold, so I am sure that what I have hung is mold free. Plus, you would have to smoke SO much mold to cause any issues, you really would have to pack the bowl with nothing but mold. It's most dangerous when you are breathing the spores (Which we are always breathing because it is everywhere), and unless it's a very specific type of black mold there's really nothing toxic enough to hurt you, let alone toxic enough to hurt you AFTER being combusted. But the stuff I have hung up, if there is a tiny bit of microscopic mold that I can't see with a 30X jewelers loupe, I'm really not that concerned about it. If a little mold like that could take us down, we'd all have been dead ages ago.

 

[amgprb]

I'm not too worried. Everything has been inspected very carefully, and if a bud was moldy I tossed the whole bud instead of cutting out the mold, so I am sure that what I have hung is mold free. Plus, you would have to smoke SO much mold to cause any issues, you really would have to pack the bowl with nothing but mold. It's most dangerous when you are breathing the spores (Which we are always breathing because it is everywhere), and unless it's a very specific type of black mold there's really nothing toxic enough to hurt you, let alone toxic enough to hurt you AFTER being combusted. But the stuff I have hung up, if there is a tiny bit of microscopic mold that I can't see with a 30X jewelers loupe, I'm really not that concerned about it. If a little mold like that could take us down, we'd all have been dead ages ago.

Besides all of the health stuff, i am sure it would taste like shit too!

..... Ever smoke mexi brown brick shit weed before? Haha

 

[Ace Yonder]

Besides all of the health stuff, i am sure it would taste like shit too!

..... Ever smoke mexi brown brick shit weed before? Haha

Again, if it's not visible at 30x magnification, I doubt it will affect taste too badly. We'll see though I suppose

 

[tannersmokin247]

BOrb, post: 10899828, member: 582283"]Besides all of the health stuff, i am sure it would taste like shit too!

..... Ever smoke mexi brown brick shit weed before? Haha[/QUOTE]
Yeah I smoked some brick weed in mexico...it had seeds and spots of white mold..But whenvit

 

[Krspies]

You can get valley fever from mold and that shit can kill you in about 2 days if it disseminates and if doesn't kill you it leaves you with joint and lung issues.

 

[Ace Yonder]

You can get valley fever from mold and that shit can kill you in about 2 days if it disseminates and if doesn't kill you it leaves you with joint and lung issues.

While techincally the words you said are true, the context in which they are used and being applied are pretty solidly false. The type of mold that causes valley fever (Coccidiodes) is soil borne, not plant borne, and is in no way related to bud mold (Botrytis). Also, valley fever is caused by inhalation the intact mold spores, and as such you could not contract valley fever from the combusted product, so even if you managed to, against all odds, have a bud infected with Coccidioides immitis, you couldn't contract valley fever from it unless you were crumbling it up and snorting it. You know how you CAN get valley fever though? Walking through a dusty field when it is a little windy. You can get Hantavirus the same way. But you know how you can't get either? From the combusted product of substances contaminated with them, because neither of them can survive said combustion.

 

[DutchHaze]

Dang son, droppin a little knowledge on us.

So u get everything cut down or u lettin some ride out the storm?

 

[Krspies]

Yea I had valley fever in 2010. I know it is soil born. I was just pointing out that there is things more toxic. Proba ly should have mentioned that lol

 

[Ace Yonder]

Dang son, droppin a little knowledge on us.

So u get everything cut down or u lettin some ride out the storm?

I've got a little bit still riding, after the night of rain we had a very sunny and windy day so a lot of it dried out, and I've already taken the densest colas. But I took 4 more branches off the big girl to help with circulation. Her main cola is just about dry, gonna get a final weight off it today and see what kinda ballpark we're playing in hahaha. I smoked some of the stuff from the smaller plants that i harvested last week and even though it's barely started curing it really knocks me off my rocker, and is smoothe in the throat to boot. So much nicer than last year when my agent orange hermied on me, the smoke was strong but the microseeds made it harsh like you wouldn't believe.

 

[Ace Yonder]

Yea I had valley fever in 2010. I know it is soil born. I was just pointing out that there is things more toxic. Proba ly should have mentioned that lol

Oh man, no fun! I hope that everythin's goin' good now, and the lungs ain't givin' you too much gruff! On the plus side I've read that once you're exposed you develop an immunity, so that should stop it from happening again at least!

 

[Krspies]

Oh man, no fun! I hope that everythin's goin' good now, and the lungs ain't givin' you too much gruff! On the plus side I've read that once you're exposed you develop an immunity, so that should stop it from happening again at least!

Aww I'm all good now. I lost some lung function but working out at the gym 5 days a week hascreally helped with strengthening them. Cycling is brutal lol

Once you get valley fevervyou actually aren't immune. If your immune system goes down it can reactivate. Sugar can cause it to flare back up too. I'm super paranoid about the smoke I inhale now

 

[Dr.Pecker]

I think it was monsters inside me or some show like that had valley fever in it. It don't sound fun. Does it feed on the sugar like other molds? Is that why it flares up like that?