What Would You Do? -- The Moldy Margate

Hmmm... you are absolutely certain it's mold? Can ya post some pictures? The reason I ask is, when I lived in Portland I used to store my tobacco in my cellar, yes, I was actually cellaring my tobacco! Weird. Anyway, I just came back from a trip to the House Of Calabash where I had a long conversation with Steven Books about mold growth on tobacco. It got me paranoid so I went straight to my cellar and looked at my collection. I saw all this weird shit growing all over my jars of Penzance and my heart sunk, I felt sick. I was so close to dumping a pound of that stuff when I decided to do a little search and to my amazement, this "growth" was actually a GOOD thing! I never heard of "bloom" before and I had come way too close to thinking it was mold and discarding it.

That being said, I'm sure you know the difference but sometimes bloom can look a lot like mold. Does it stink? I guess I would try just discarding the moldy parts and salvaging the rest.

Eww... Too much moisture I suppose.

I haven't had a mold problem yet. I do worry about this because I am a bibliophile and have problems with mold on my cloth bound books. So, the first thing to do is smell the tobacco and if it stinks(Molded bread smells like shit) pick off the mold and start smoking it.

Margate? Smoke the mold and throw out the rest.
Heh just kidding.

LMAO @ Itstone :rofl:

Toss it all, you do inhale bits of the smoke and the smoke is in you mouth, the risk is too high, toss it out and start over.

Like Hawky said, if it stinks, it's mold. It grows fast too. If it is mold, I don't think you'll have much luck with the tobacco that doesn't seem to be affected. Mold spores jump like little jack rabbits. I would try if it was me to salvage what I could but I wouldn't expect great results.
Mike S.