Is this Plume, Mold, or Something Else?

[fishmansf]

Title edited for caps and brevity. Truncated part:

'All my English blends get this stuff on them for some reason.'

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I don't see any mold at all

 

[fishmansf]

I don't see any mold at all

Do you see the white specks im talking about though?

 

[Peterson314]

I see the white flecks. That just looks like sugar to me. I would load that in my pipe and wouldn’t give that a second thought.

 

[verporchting]

Looks good to me, I’d smoke it.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Do you see the white specks im talking about though?

I do, it's not mold. Pretty much every SG tin I've ever opened, that's two years old or older, looks worse than that. White specks do not automatically mean mold.

 

[bullet08]

I would smoke it. Mold looks like mold.

 

[reloader]

I'd smoke it as well.

 

[Piping Abe]

Tobacco is a plant. Its not always gonna look the same. Looks good from here.

 

[rmbittner]

Sorry, that honestly just looks like tobacco to me.

 

[gervais]

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Nothing wrong there my brother. Smoke away

 

[Scottishgaucho]

Must admit I would never have noticed it it's that small. Start puffing.

 

[Searock Fan]

Smoke some. Your taste buds will tell you if there is something wrong. By the way, what is it and where did it come from?

 

[kcghost]

Light her up!!

 

[monty55]

Do you see the white specks im talking about though?

That's not mold
Smoke it

 

[Bushido]

Looks fine

 

[Val]

That doesn’t look like mold to me

 

[Steddy]

I really like this small microscope for such an occasion.

 

[elvishrunes]

It’s so small, I wouldn’t have noticed, maybe sugar crystals. Also , if it’s high levels of toxic mold it would smell bad, smell is a huge indicator with mold. If it was tiny amounts, they’d get burnt by the flame and you likely don’t inhale pipe tobacco anyhow.

Fermentation (like with tobacco) uses bacteria and some fungi/mould. Lastly, there are always little bits of mold in the air anyhow, especially in humid climates, only large amounts are deadly, or something to worry over…

 

[Singularis]

Looks good from her: smoke away!

My 4 year old tin of SG Squadron Leader had those little white specks (plus some sparkling crystallization when held in a bright light), and so did my tin 4 year old tin of C&D Bijou (a broken flake with just aged Virginia and Oriental).