The mouse that dropped dead from my weed

I grew some really nice blueberry and crystal recently, Almost the best buds I've ever grown. So anyway I gave my best friend some of the choicest buds, it was about 90% dry. His wife never goes into the backyard pool shed he has, so he hung the buds in there, I told him that was stupid as the humidity here is way over 70%, but he put them there anyway to keep his nosey wife from finding them.

(keep in mind these buds are very potent, at least 25% amber trichs, the crystal (crystal is WW x NL) was so resin coated, they looked like they were dipped in honey, some that were dried and touched the wall, flattening a few of them, but the flat side was entirely white from the very juicy trichs, you couldn't see any green)

Today he comes over with the craziest tale. He found a small field mouse that dropped dead right below the hanging buds after ingesting some of it. He tells me there are parts of the bud and stem stalk that clearly have been chompted on by this mouse. I asked him if he had any mouse or rat baits in his shed, he said nope.

This is the first time I've ever heard of a casualty from pot, albeit a rodent. My buddy is a piece of work, he and his twin 6 year old daughters had a funeral for the mouse yesterday, they then burried it.

It would be intersting to go dig it up, take some tissue cultures then send it to lab to see if THC killed this critter. Its also possible that it died from natural causes, but one thing's for sure, he might have been a little baked on his way to mouse heaven

edit: PS, I'm going to ask my buddy to take a couple pictures of the chomped on buds and stalks, If he does, I'll post a picture. While I never post pics of my plants, this is so crazy and unusual I'll break my policy.

I don't usually gratuitously post on this site, but:

Wow. That's crazy.

S-Town

Oh, and also:

I want some of that chronic!

S-Town

he was just napping! dig him up!

So, you never mentioned how dank the chronic was bro, blue berry chronic, dead mice, tissue samples, did this dude ever stop and just chill?

Considering how little a mouse is, I'd imagine just a few nibbles of really dank bud like that would push the concentrations above the lethal limit. Impressive.

Mr.McFloppy said:

So, you never mentioned how dank the chronic was bro, blue berry chronic, dead mice, tissue samples, did this dude ever stop and just chill?

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the weed wasnt dry yet.

Mr.McFloppy said:

So, you never mentioned how dank the chronic was bro, blue berry chronic, dead mice, tissue samples, did this dude ever stop and just chill?

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He wasn't all that upset, he was just annoyed and dismayed that the mouse was eating his buds, not to mention dropping dead, I think it's pretty funny. My buddy didn't even know I had a crop going, I don't ever tell anyone, best friend for more than 40 years or not, I only told him after I disposed of the roots and it had been drying for a little more than a week.

As far as dankness, It was almost dried when I gave it to him, it still needed a bit more drying, in the 1st post I said it was about 90% dried when I showed him the buds and told him to pick any two of the nine plants he wants to take home to finish drying them. ( I also gave him a spare 1.3 liter Tightvac to keep some of the buds in to store and cure. He isn't going to be able to fit them all in that one vacuum Tightvac.

Tomorrow when I turn on my main PC in my office, Ill post a couple pictures of it before the mouse ate it. Those pics aren't on my htpc.

PS, It was Bueberry and Crystal, I did however cross pollenate the crystal with blueberry pollen and BB x BB. Family coming to town, so I needed to re-supply myself with decent seeds for my next grow. I need to replicate my last grow, because I tried a few new techniques in a prelude to my planned growall, but I had such good results, I need to duplicate my last grow, which was simply amazing. Been growing since 1984 and never have I had such an amazing grow.

If I can replicate it, then I can say it was a fluke.

but then again, THC isnt supposed to be activated by ingestion alone, heat is required so i doubt he was high.

whoreable said:

but then again, THC isnt supposed to be activated by ingestion alone, heat is required so i doubt he was high.

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I ate a quarter of an ounce in a cop shop over a 15 min period waiting to be processed for a holding cell...i was definitely high afterwards.

Took you 15 minutes to eat a salad.I have money saying theresc many a vegetarian here who'd whoop your ass.Albiet no ranch,but still....

jc83 said:

I ate a quarter of an ounce in a cop shop over a 15 min period waiting to be processed for a holding cell...i was definitely high afterwards.

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i ate a blunts worth of weed once it was hard w/ no water or anything..
A qp in 15 minutes while being processed? I'm callin Bull Shit hahah

Quarter ounce, read the post.

Also, you mention it was very dank and sticky, perhaps the mouse choked? Even for a mouse, it should have had to consume a lot more than a few nibbles of weed to kill it. It seems far more likely that the mouse bit off more than he could chew and couldn't handle your super sticky icky.

Pizzzh said:

i ate a blunts worth of weed once it was hard w/ no water or anything..
A qp in 15 minutes while being processed? I'm callin Bull Shit hahah

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qp? If you mean quarter pound thats not what i said. I was living in a country with 5yr mandatory for even the smallest roach. The thought of what would happen to me with a quater ounce was inspiration enough.

I have a friend who also ate around 8 grams because the 5-0 were raiding their apartment building. She sat in her bathroom and ate it in like 5-10 minutes. She was DEFINITELY high. But back to that whole mouse story, choking seems like a viable option for how it died. I doubt eating bud killed it, but who knows, crazier shit has happened.

I could think of worse ways to go lol

If you find me dead under a half eaten nug of fresh grown bud know that I died happy.

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but then again, THC isnt supposed to be activated by ingestion alone, heat is required so i doubt he was high.

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I completely understand that heat or a solvent of some sort is necessary for the mouse to have been baked. But whatever the mouse died from, whether he choked, overdosed, died of old age or whatever is pretty funny, for the sole fact that he took bites of bud and stalk, then dropped dead less than a foot from where he decided to have lunch. Still waiting on the pictures, my buddie gets off work at 5:30pm est.

Below is one of the shots from my amazing grow, these are the lowest branches which usually are terrible quality, which are usually trimmed or made into low quality hash. What I did with all the lowest branches is use floral wire and manipulated every single lower branch, I simply pulled every lower branch forward to the lights, since I had massive light from top to bottom, even on the usually neglected bottom portion of the plant, this produced very juicy lower buds, as good as the top colas, just smaller, I did however have unusually thicker stems on the lower branches, which was a bit unexpected. The airflow if anything was hindered by the front vertical 8 tube t5 fixture, that was a bit strange, maybe I'm just used to seeing spindly neglected branches on the lowest part of the plant.

How did I get some really juicy lower foliage? Very simple. My last grow was 9 plants purposely grown in a 2 x 2 Megagarden in a SOG of sorts. I wanted to try massive light in a small area, to put the theory of to much light and diminished returns to the test. I needed to do this to best plan my Growall I had planned next to best coordinate the lighting I was going to use. Instead I got results that simply have me stumped, don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining.

How much light did I use? A lot more than normal, concentrated in a 2 sqr foot area. During the entire 12/12 flowering cycle, the top was lit by a few hours of a 2' eight tube T5 fixture, I used tracks to make the light swaps easier for me in this expiremental grow as it was manually intensive, since I work at home in my home office, I had the time to try this insane method. The whole key isn't how many watts I used, but how I delivered each watt to the plants. Growalls are exceptional because they deliver the light from top to bottom, this is what I wanted to try to accomplish in a traditional grow, in a tight space.

Then after a few hours the remainder of the top canopy was lit by a 400w HPS CMH, then the 2' 8 bulb t5 fixture was put in a vertical configuration in front. (The megagarden was rotated 90* every two or three days)

I also used two homemade LED fixtures with dozens of CREE XLAMP LED emitters in red and blue emitters on one side wall as static side lower to mid foliage illumination. These produces copius light to that side illumination, and I'll now be using these emitters in conjunction with MH and HPS lighting from now on.

The other side had two 55watt PL-L flouro fixtures with PURPLE and 6500k and purple split PL-L tubes as side illumination.
I also had two of those 225 led bulb red/blue 15w panels (These are a joke, and a waste of money) but I used them on the rear wall as lower canopy illumination, the only reason I used them is the rear plants were hard to keep off the wall, and these idiotic 225 led bulbs are unable to burn the foliage, even if the leds touch the plant. But they are a joke. I did replace all my mylar with 1/4" closed cell ZT 98% efficient Mylar bubble on the walls. Much better than mylar for many reasons.

I also threw in a couple CFL bulbs for good measure in a dual bulb fixture, one bulb was a Purelite neg ion 27w 5000k right in front of a oscilating fan, I had to remove this bulb from the grow room as all the foliage in near proximity to this bulb caused leaf necrosis, this is the first time I've ever seen neg ions cause necrosis, I've seen ozone damage and c02 cause necrosis before, but never seen neg ion necrosis in any grow I've ever done, this was a first,
most likley because this bulb produces copius amounts of neg ions. (its now in my bathroom)

Some people might say BS to this, but I grew this crop from known seeds that have been grown many times by me, 62 days from seed to harvest, no cheating, no less than 12 hour days in flowering, and 25% amber trichs confirmed using a Zeiss optical viewer that I borrowed. Over the years I've tried all sorts of unorthodox methods from grafting, using weird spectrums to stress inducing to see if I could get better results, but this last grow produced the best results to date, knocking off 20+ days, larger yield and lower buds as good as the top. I really must duplicate these conditions, including the ridiculous homemade c02 I used, normally I use my c02 tank, this time I bought 2 kilos of live yeast, mixed it with water and sugar and used two liter bottles and fan delivery of the c02. I made a new solution every two or three days for max c02. Lots of wasted c02, as there was no real way to stop c02 production from this goofy method.

I really don't want to do that again with the c02, as it was a pain in the ass, but I will, just to prove to myself that the last grow was not a fluke. Personally I still don't believe excessive light and the method I used can shorten a grow, genetically you would think that's impossible, but we will see. If it can be duplicated, then it wasn't a fluke. I'll use the same seed from the same batch and we'll see what happens.

I do have a grow journal, but on pen and paper, I'm glad I took notes as this was an interesting grow.

Here's a pic of 4 or 5 buds from the absolute lowest portion of the plant, I'm pretty sure these are some of the buds the mouse chomped on that were in my buddies pool shed. I'll know once he sends me a pic or two as I know what plants he took. Pretty juicy lower foliage, these were taken a few days before they were given to my buddy.

the mouse could have easily eaten rat or mouse poisin in a near by house and wanted to go out in style!! thats the definition of going out in style!!

maybe it choked