marijuana tastesbad/moldy

[69rezzed]

Hello,I have finished my wges first and second grow,the first was dried on a line for about 5 days then cured in glass sealed jars opening and airing them out as well as flipping the buds daily for about 1.5 to 2 weeks then left sealed and opened once and awhile to check them,they have a great smell at first but the taste was awful almost like mold or chemicals possibly,i dont see any mold on them as i have looked carefully.Now after a few more weeks curing the smell is gone and the taste is still awful.

So the second grow I thought I would dry out 1 small bud for a few days in the open in the dark and then we tried it and it tastes the same,dried the second grow and been curing for a few weeks now,smell is still good but going away a little,taste the same as the first grow including the first small bud we tried right away a few days after we cut it.

I am scared as it tastes kind of like mold,we arent getting sick from it at all,it does give a little high to it but i dont know what this taste is and why the smell is going away.We flush each plant around 2 to 2.5 weeks before being cut.We have had fan leaf issues with them being over fertilized on both plants,I think it was the compost soil we used as it must have been full of nutrients and when we added feed to it the leaves started to turn yellow on the tips then to the edges.I dont know if this has anything to do with it or not.Used super bloom for flowering 12-55-6.

Just trying to get some ideas of what i should do here. I dont see any m,old visibly or with magnifying glass,stems snap easily but i dont know what this taste is,its almost hard to smoke and sometimes can be harsh on the throat.

Any ideas or suggestions would be great!

 

[canefan]

Well the flushing and such won't make a difference if you have mold or not. You have a couple of possibilities as to why you keep having mold. First you might just have had some in the buds when you put them into jars. Second and most likely is that they weren't dry enough when you jarred them and then didn't burp the jars often enough or maybe just stopped too soon and left them sit. Curing is the part which will take time for you to get the hang of if you aren't familiar with drying other things such as herbs.
Next time dry them out a little bit more, just remember how the last ones felt and give it another day or two then jar.
Good Luck

 

[69rezzed]

But if it was mold why did the test bud taste like this when it was leftr out to air dry for a few days?

Is there any other possibility of what this moldy taste could be,I dont see any mold on them.

Is it safe to smoke it or should i trash it.

 

[Wolverine97]

But if it was mold why did the test bud taste like this when it was leftr out to air dry for a few days?

Is there any other possibility of what this moldy taste could be,I dont see any mold on them.

Is it safe to smoke it or should i trash it.

Welp, that's pretty tough to say considering none of us have seen your grow, the plants at harvest, the fresh buds or anything else for that matter...

 

[69rezzed]

The trimmings that were left out to dry and have for weeks now even taste slightly the same,if i smell closely i can smell what i taste as well.Here are some of the pics i have on this,it wasnt a huge crop grown indoors under cfls.Poor air flow on some days but always had fans exiting the grow room and air incoming,temps around 78 to 81 on some days.

 

[Wolverine97]

What strain?

 

[69rezzed]

i was told purple kush.

 

[69rezzed]

the first grow i dont know for sure but it wasnt bag seed just forgot the name of it and it tastes the same and has now lost all smell to it.

 

[StoneToTheBone]

I dont have experience with bud rot and that might be what it is, your weed isn't moldy, i could see the white fungus growing on my weed without a magnifying glass, its possible to be nutrients (taste like chemical, throat burn, harshness)
if you aren't going to smoke it, i would definitely try to make some kind of extraction with it, that will get rid of most of your plant matter (which is probably where the harshness/nasty taste is)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0X-C2C_3g (1 poor mans hash method)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcYW55GoaE&feature=channel_video_title (serious mans concentrate)

hope it helps

 

[69rezzed]

what causes bud rot,these plants were only in about 1.5 to 2 gallon containers but i did lst them and kept them small as you can see from the harvest.I didnt think it was mold because they tasted this way from the start right when they were cut as well as the really dry trimmings.

 

[StoneToTheBone]

The strain has a big part in resisting molds of different sorts but high humidity in later stages of flowering can cause bud rot, but i think its problem with nutrients in the plant, you cant cure nutrients out of the buds. You said you flushed for 2-2.5 weeks which should take care of the nutrients, but depending on medium grown in and what nutrients you used probably has a big part

 

[69rezzed]

I was leaning towards nutrients as well as i didnt see any mold,they werent wet at all in the jars and they tasted funky like this from the start.Is it still safe to smoke like this or is it trash or should it be made into something else like hash?Next time i will use a different meduim/soil for sure as well as different nutes.

 

[olylifter420]

go all organic next grow... use subcool's super soil recipe or go with fox farms ocean forest or with roots... YOu will be very pleased... mine are in a mix of super soil and FFOF, i have had no problem with nute burn or anything... they smell killer

 

[69rezzed]

is this bud still safe to smoke?

 

[StoneToTheBone]

ya im sure your bud is safe to smoke

 

[olylifter420]

does it get you where you want to be when you smoke it?

i dont know man. but i smoked some bud that was similar to what you describe and i got sick with a cold and a bad fucking cough and a lot of phlegm, im barely getting better right now, but i threw that junk away...

one more thing, im not an expert like some other guys who have shared their thoughts here

 

[69rezzed]

Thank you,that was my biggest concern,i think i can live with the taste and smell i just didnt want to throw it out if i didnt have to.Thanks to everyone for their help on this.

 

[69rezzed]

It does get me hi but i feel sleepy on both strians and weak,maybe its just the strain or me,today and yesterday are the first two days i havent smoked any of it and i feel pretty good,thats why i thought i would ask this question basically to see if it was just me or if it was this bud doing this to me.

 

[olylifter420]

what i would do is share some with a friend, dont tell em about what happened to it and see what they tell you?

base your decision on what they say.

thats what i would do

 

[69rezzed]

i have done that,my wife has tried it several times and no complaints, I dont think a friend of mine would take more then one hit due to the taste of it but i have asked my wife and she seems o.k. althogh she has her mdeical problems like fybromyalgia and other things so she doesnt feel the greatest anyways.