I'm about to flip an ef'n gasket MOLD

My first grow went beautifully; no major issues at all, beautiful, dense, sticky, just remarkably delicious buds. Now for the love of fleece covered infant baby Jesus I cant get a cycle without having to trash at least a third of it because it looks like a group of mold fairies had a "fuck my grow over party" deep inside all of my fat buds. I admittedly haven't been able to spend as much time tending to my girls as usual but fuck, one day great; literally 72 hours later and POOF cotton candy everywhere!?!?! Last harvest consisted of me having an "emergency cut down" about a week or two ahead of schedule because I noticed some cotton candy mold on a few plants. I didn't want to chance it so I cut damn near everything down. After ditching the shit covered buds I ended up with around 14oz. I was stoked and depressed at the same time. (The entire harvest is shit quality 3.5 on a 1-10 scale) Now I go out and check on my girls and apparently the fuck me over fairies have returned. One of my late bloomers was about ready so I cut her down and low and behold the top cola is chock filled with cotton candy . Mother fucking buttmunching god damn fuck!?!?!?! There I sorta feel better. Not really, but sorta. Now; is there anything I can do with this fuzzy bud? BHO, ISO, Bubble hash, etc? I personally can't consume anything at the moment, but have a few people with legitimate medical issues that need their meds (I don't charge so don't start talking shit about being greedy and wanting to save my income). I just want to know if I have any options for salvaging the product.

Oh yeah one more thing. I'm going to add the word "mould" in case someone tries to use the search feature and can't spell the word MOLD.


I'm pretty sure I know what is causing this; excess humidity and lack of proper ventilation. I get it and I can accept that I've fucked up my entire grow. I plan on completely redesigning my grow room to make accommodations for an active dehumidifier and multiple fans. In the mean time, I need to salvage my remaining girls. I have a few girls still growing that are healthy minus the start of signs of visitation from the fuck me over fairies. Can I kill the cotton candy mold or what? Or do I need to just empty the entire flood table and start over (after making the aforementioned modifications?)

This is the top cola "split" down the middle to show the inner nastyness
Completely different girl that is still standing
Hard to tell but there are signs of mold
Again, hard to see but about the middle of the pic has signs of the cotton candy bullshit that I keep finding

Got to get a mold resistant strain.

Move alot of air and cut if close. Gett the humidity way down. Remove the moldy stuff as its hazardous. Make cake
with alcohol. Remove moldy crap. Dry, grind and put in a jar. Add rubbing alcohol. Stronger is better. Shake 20 seconds and run thru coffee filter. Put liquid in a glass pan and evaporate with fan. Run until a dry scum is left ..scrape with a razor blade. Repeat for lower quality stuff. Vap it if you like.

Corso312 said:

Got to get a mold resistant strain.

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Alqumista

And

Fruit Spirit

Either of these count as mold resistant?

Coho said:

Move alot of air and cut if close. Gett the humidity way down. Remove the oldy stuff as its hazardous. Make cake
pwith alcohol.

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What?

For research purposes, the correct name for your "cotton candy" is botrytis. It spreads like wildfire once it starts. Extreme amounts of airflow can drastically cut back on the growth and development. I try to always have as many oscillating fans in the room as possible. The bigger and denser the bud/strain, the more chance that you'll run into botrytis. Granddaddy Purple for example is so dense that even with max amounts of airflow and good humidity levels I almost always have a few buds that mold. One trick that my friend has for this is he takes a toothpick and pries open the biggest buds slightly to allow for maximum airflow. The problem with that method is that it takes forever. One method that has worked for me is spraying the plants with Eagle 20 as far into flowering as possible before buds have gotten to large too foliar feed. Eagle 20 is a systemic fungicide so it stays within the plant long enough to where it will protect your plants from any fungus (botrytis, rust, powdery mildey, etc) long enough to keep your plants resistant until close to harvest but stays in the plant a short enough time to where it's worked it's way out of the plants system by the time you're done flushing and ready for harvest. Eagle 20 is the only fungicide I've ever used that works on all fungus' with just a single application.

http://www.dowagro.com/turf/products/fungicides/eagle_20ew.htm

Its kinda hash. The trichs desolve in the alcohol. You end up with a blob to smoke,
. Alcohol kills the mold spores.

Not familiar with either of those strains...but I have some monsters growing right on top of each other in my garden..hawaiian skunk x romulan and they look amazing no mold no mildew...6 feet away I have some mental floss with powdery mildew ..same grow location..same sun//temp//humidity and nutes..they have had PM since veg stage..some strains are strong others are weak..

You want to have your humidity level at around 40% during flowering stage since, from what you are explaining, having it higher you are risking getting mold a lot easier. Have your out take high and your in take low. As well as putting a hepa filter on your intake would help collect those nasty mold spores from coming into your room.

And as noman says a good fungicide can help restrain spores from forming into mold. I use Serenade once a week so far.

if u dont smoke it and u dont charge for ur product then why are u soo up set? u didnt loose anything relly your friends that need there medicen did though. still sucks i would make some hash with it though so not all is lost.
better luck next time man

I'm going to hit up my local shop tomorrow and get some fungicide and try the toothpick method. Half the table is about 2 weeks from harvest and I'm planning on foliar feed treat them just before the lights come on. What do I do with the already effected and harvested stuff? I've been flushing it (down the shitter) and then cleaning my hands / tools with alcohol afterwards. It saddens me to no end to do this. I've tried searching "pwith" and cant find shit.

Never mind I see you've edited your post.

stickyicky0420 said:

if u dont smoke it and u dont charge for ur product then why are u soo up set? u didnt loose anything relly your friends that need there medicen did though. still sucks i would make some hash with it though so not all is lost.
better luck next time man

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I'm upset because I don't like seeing my friends in pain or suffering. Regarding mold infected buds; what type of hash is safest?

Pwith..lol Best of luck buddy.

im shure bubble hash would be fine im not 100% thoguh thats what i do with my messed up or moleded stuff never noticed anything wrong with my hash either but the lower micron should be relly safe i would think the higher micron filters would filter out all the mold plant matter just my 2c good luck man i hate ur frinds dont have a med sorce now all isnt lost though

Are spores smaller than 20 micron? If so then I'll just bubble the whole ef'n harvest and start from scratch.

im not shure but they probably might be smaller so they would just fall right through and all of the mold plant matter should collect on the work bag

I'm just so pissed right now I can't see straight. Ef'n humidity....

how high was the humidity just curious?

I don't know. I've got a kinda cramps setup for what I'm doing and neglected the system to an extent. Since I'm not consuming I'm no spending as much time in the room. Wild temp humidity changes are suspected cause I've got all kinds of shit going wrong. It's my fault, I just want to know if I can salvage any of it while I get my shit together.

Shit part is I was just recently given one of those outside weather meters equipt with wind speed (going to point the fan at it just for shits and giggles), temp, humidity, etc. with a remote monitor screen. It's not in the room yet. I've just been so busy lately I've had no choice but to concentrate on things other than my setup. Life is a bitch sometimes; I'm just trying to make lemon-aide at this point.

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I'm going to hit up my local shop tomorrow and get some fungicide and try the toothpick method. Half the table is about 2 weeks from harvest and I'm planning on foliar feed treat them just before the lights come on. What do I do with the already effected and harvested stuff? I've been flushing it (down the shitter) and then cleaning my hands / tools with alcohol afterwards. It saddens me to no end to do this. I've tried searching "pwith" and cant find shit.

Never mind I see you've edited your post.

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Foliar feeding this late into your bloom cycle will only act as a catalyst to create more mold. The mold is created from and over abundance of humidity and spraying them with a foliar feed/liquid will only make the problem worse. My best advice to you is go cut out the moldy parts of your colas and keep an extra close eye on them daily to make sure it's not getting worse. Turn off all your fans and try to be gentle when removing the moldy parts to cut down on the amount of spores that you will release in your environment. Keep the fans off for 10-15 minutes'ish and give any spores that were release via removing mold settle before you turn your fans back on.

As 3lusive mentioned you can use Serenade. I've used that and it works okay, is cheap, and can be bought almost anywhere. It stinks like shit though and will make your whole growing environment smell like vinegar for a day. If you can get Eagle 20 I would definitely choose that over Serenade. The downside to Eagle 20 is that it's hard to find and pretty pricey for somebody on a tight budget. With that said though, it is hands down the best fungicide on the market and works for about every strain of fungus and mold out there.

Good luck