What Are The Best Ways To Check For Moldy Weed?

 

1) Look

The easiest way to check for moldy weed is to examine the bud with your naked eye. Common signs of mold include:

• Cobweb-like material
• Powdery appearance
• Dark spots on green buds
• Yellow fuzz
• Grey fuzz
• Slime

If you see any of these on your pot plant, consider it moldy.

2) Smell

Your weed will exhibit a wide variety of aromas — from berry to diesel fuel to skunk. But if you smell sweat or urine, your bud is probably going moldy.

That said, some people have more sensitive sniffers and will smell more of the weed fragrance even if mold is present. Additionally, some molds don’t produce any aroma until they’re further along in their development.

3) Feel

Healthy marijuana that is properly cured should feel dry and crispy. If your weed feels damp or spongy, it may be moldy.

Detecting mold on your marijuana takes practice and often involves all three of the tests above — look, smell, and feel.

But if you really want to be sure you don’t have moldy weed, you can take your tests to the next level by looking deeper and checking for recalls.

4) Look Deeper

If you own a microscope or can get your hands on one (they’re fairly cheap now), you can detect the first traces of mold before it becomes visible to the naked eye.

Even a jeweler’s loop or a strong magnifying glass can help you look deeper at the surface of your ganja flowers.

Mold produces structures (i.e., hyphae) that look nothing like any other part of the pot plant. If you see something out of the ordinary, it could be mold.

5) Check For Recalls

As a last resort, you can check media outlets and even the grower’s website (if they have one) to check for recalls due to moldy weed.

This may not be the most reliable way to check for moldy weed — because many issues like this go unreported — but it can be effective if the crop was large enough and shipped to multiple locations.

You can rest assured that there’s no trace of mold on your marijuana — and won’t be for a long time — when you buy it from a dispensary in Frisco Colorado.