MOLD! My first.

[jpmcwjr]

I've been lucky, but it just ran out. Re-opened my pound bag of Planta Full English to replenish a jar, and found this:




So I threw out the infected part, and will be careful with the rest.

I opened the bag about six months ago, and carefully resealed it after replenishing the jar. But I must have introduced spores from my hand or the air in the few moments the mylar bag was open.

The tobacco is fairly damp, but I won't have a reading until tomorrow morning.

 

[tokerpipes]

Eewww

 

[weezell]

That is a Bummer...?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Well, I've lost only a fraction of an ounce-----so far. And I'm not enamored with the blend. OK, but not a repeat purchase, even if they haven't stopped producing it.

 

[BROBS]

Dang. What’s the temp/humidity where you store it?

 

[tobefrank]

That’s not mold, it’s plume... ? Seriously though, that sucks donkey balls.

 

[cshubhra]

Very unfortunate! Good that you salvaged most

 

[scloyd]

That sucks. Great picture of mold though for everyone who starts a thread "Is this mold"?

 

[alaskanpiper]

I wouldn’t smoke any of that business. I’m probably overparanoid but them spores me migratin’

 

[seanv]

That's unfortunate. Mold sucks

 

[tokerpipes]

I bet it smokes. Grassy with a touch of a mossy flavor.?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Damn that sucks. Looks like my Bijou from a couple of years ago.

 

[tobefrank]

Damn that sucks. Looks like my Bijou from a couple of years ago.

I have a tin of Bijou waiting to be opened at some point in the future.

For now, like Schroedingers cat, it is both moulded and not moulded until I open the tin and have a look.

 

[jpmcwjr]

That’s not mold, it’s plume... ? Seriously though, that sucks donkey balls.

HAH! You pulling my chain over a "discussion" I got into when I insisted "plume" was a cigar term, and "bloom" was the right term for those lovely crystals (or whatever) that isn't mold?

 

[Chasing Embers]

I have a tin of Bijou waiting to be opened at some point in the future.

For now, like Schroedingers cat, it is both moulded and not moulded until I open the tin and have a look.

If it's from 2016 I would be worried. All 10 of mine were bad.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Look at the bright side. You can't question that is plume instead of mold. No second guessing. Given that's your first mold experience, you've been very fortunate.

 

[tobefrank]

If it's from 2016 I would be worried. All 10 of mine were bad.

It probably is unfortunately, but I guess I’ll find out how bad it is when I crack the tin.

 

[perdurabo]

Mold. Tobacco Hoarder’s Worst Nightmare.

 

[craig61a]

It happens...

 

[BROBS]

I've been lucky, but it just ran out. Re-opened my pound bag of Planta Full English to replenish a jar, and found this:


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So I threw out the infected part, and will be careful with the rest.

I opened the bag about six months ago, and carefully resealed it after replenishing the jar. But I must have introduced spores from my hand or the air in the few moments the mylar bag was open.

The tobacco is fairly damp, but I won't have a reading until tomorrow morning.

Just so you know when mold starts it spreads through the host like capillaries so the whole bag is affected whether it looks that way or not. Just like a loaf of bread you can’t just throw out the moldy end.