I inadvertently smoked some moldy bud from my last year's grow (turned moldy in mason jar) - extremely irritating of upper/mid airways, shortness of breath. This made me inspect it closer and noticed they looked a bit brownish, not the original deep forest green. This is what prompted my google search that brought me here, hoping I could rescue a nice jar of GG#12.
I don't see how any of the solutions in this thread would work cleaning these buds from the mold I think they have - they all sound quite disingenuous to me.
It's also important to note that just because spores are everywhere doesn't mean you can smoke them, and eating mold (via edibles) is definitely not the same as smoking it - even then it is still
not advisable. Your lungs don't have the acidity levels in your gut that takes care of such nasties. These are not the fungus that make your cheese taste delicious! Your lungs don't do well dealing with mold and fungus. There is plenty of literature explaining how bad this can be, just one
here.
Bottom line - cry a bit and compost the flowers that have gone bad, enjoy a new grow.
The colors don't come thru very well in the photo - but you can see a slight brownish tint.
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