Feel your pain with the mold. Hurts doesn’t it. I still haven’t actually thrown mine out just hung it up to dry. There has to be some use for it, right? I have to really look them over because I have been seeing a lot of caterpillars
You just have to be extra careful, cut your losses and discard all moldy pieces. Once it starts it just keeps going. Every day for over a week I was tossing at least 1 bud a day. Luckily I was already at week 7 and managed to salvage some