How to salvage moldy bud and get a great tasting smoke

broadleaf said:

As PotPimp stated, being underwater kills the mold.

Adding fresh water every day washes away the mold and other yuckies

If you never added fresh water, it would kill the mold, and then proceed to rot/decay in another way.

changing the water every day, and keeping it completely submerged, keeps the weed fresh and only harms the mold.

It works beautifully. Years ago i screwed up and let about 6 oz of bud get very moldy. It got stashed away in a jar when it was not quite dry. At that time overgrow dotcom was where I went for pot info and they did not let me down. I learned what I needed to do.
I water cured it and could not have been happier with the results.
Since then I have used it a few other times, mostly to smooth out nasty tasting weed. And its really amazing how at the end of the process when day after day the water remains crystal clear, you KNOW its clean!

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Professor_Squinty said:

Ty. Would have putting the plants in the sun a few days fixed that? Either way im going to make some oil.

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Professor_Squinty said:

Ty. Would have putting the plants in the sun a few days fixed that? Either way im going to make some oil.

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ColoradoHighGrower said:

Nope, zucchini gets it all the time if you spray their leaves instead of just watering the soil. Your grow space got too moist (rh above 65%??) and air too stagnant, so mold spores from some source in your furnace room (or your ex wife's snatch) found a new happy place to settle into.. Next time control your humidity to be around 50% or less during flower, keep your space clean, and get an oscillating fan on your plants.

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Professor_Squinty said:

What should i spray with some blue dawn in water or peroxide water?

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broadleaf said:

You can save moldy bud and make it perfectly safe to smoke/consume/vaporize.

It doesnt matter if the bud is fresh or dried, water curing washes away every trace of mold.

Ive done this a number of times and it works perfectly. Next time I do it, I will take pictures.

Place the moldy bud in a jar and fill with regular tap water until the bud is submerged. You will have to rig some kind of method to keep the bud completely submerged because some of it will want to rise above the surface. SImply putting a lid on it will not work. I usually use a weighted plate to hold it down.

Keep in a cool dark place for 24 hours then take it out and you will see dirty murky water. Pour it all off, then refill with fresh water and stash again for another 24 hours.
I was told to do this every day for 2 weeks, but in my experience the bud is completely clean in less time.

Every day, when you change the water, notice how dirty it is, when you have had several days of pouring off crystal clear water, you are done. Every trace of mold will be gone.

Drain the bud and dry as usual.

The upside is you will have the smoothest, cleanest smoke you have ever had, with all the original potency intact. In fact, some people say it increases that potency, because it takes out plant material but leaves the THC, thus making the thc more concentrated.

The downside is your lovely bud will now look like schwag, but who cares if your using it yourself, you know its not crap!

Water curing will improve any bud, even perfectly good bud, as it takes out a lot of the bad tasting plant material.

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guitarguy10 said:

Such hateful pricks on this forum, why do you need to all gang up and bully him, wtf?

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PJ Diaz said:

Anyone who thinks that you can successfully get rid of mold from buds is drinking the kool aide. It's garbage folks.

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broadleaf said:

You can save moldy bud and make it perfectly safe to smoke/consume/vaporize.

It doesnt matter if the bud is fresh or dried, water curing washes away every trace of mold.

Ive done this a number of times and it works perfectly. Next time I do it, I will take pictures.

Place the moldy bud in a jar and fill with regular tap water until the bud is submerged. You will have to rig some kind of method to keep the bud completely submerged because some of it will want to rise above the surface. SImply putting a lid on it will not work. I usually use a weighted plate to hold it down.

Keep in a cool dark place for 24 hours then take it out and you will see dirty murky water. Pour it all off, then refill with fresh water and stash again for another 24 hours.
I was told to do this every day for 2 weeks, but in my experience the bud is completely clean in less time.

Every day, when you change the water, notice how dirty it is, when you have had several days of pouring off crystal clear water, you are done. Every trace of mold will be gone.

Drain the bud and dry as usual.

The upside is you will have the smoothest, cleanest smoke you have ever had, with all the original potency intact. In fact, some people say it increases that potency, because it takes out plant material but leaves the THC, thus making the thc more concentrated.

The downside is your lovely bud will now look like schwag, but who cares if your using it yourself, you know its not crap!

Water curing will improve any bud, even perfectly good bud, as it takes out a lot of the bad tasting plant material.

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Beastcoast420 said:

And yet it's still not very clear to me. You say 7 years of input as if this is a highly responded to thread but there's only 3 pages of replies. Some ppl say yay and some say nay. I just want to make sure I'm not putting myself in danger. If you don't wish to actually give any input then you don't need to respond at all.

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