Okay, here's what happened.
I have pretty much always wicked with cotton. And I'm a slave to trends, so when the "japanese cotton wicking movement of 2014" hit the U.S., I immediately jumped on board. I placed an order for some, but one of the problems is you have to order enough to last a lifetime. When it arrived (it looked very authentic with international postmarks and all...), I took a small stack and threw it in my vape box, sealed up the rest in the resealable bag it arrived in and threw it under the bathroom cabinet.
As I was using it, I noticed that there were extremely small little black spots scattered throughout the squares. Not many by any means. Very few. Maybe 4 or 5 on entire little square. And they didn't look "wet" or "grow-ey" or anything. And it tasted great to vape with, so I didn't give it any serious thought. So, after a couple of weeks (I re-wick a lot...), I went into the "giant cotton stash" and got another short-stack. Well, this time there were MANY MORE black spots.
My bathroom is a moist environment, yes. But I'm extremely clean, and they were sealed in a bag. And nothing else in my bathroom has black spots. Whatever those are, they arrived with. They're "fancy, semi-expensive, imported" black spots of some kind. I don't have a microscope laying around or anything, so I don't know. I mean, yeah, they may be organic, but they didn't look like shrubbery or anything. I threw them out and I'm afraid to buy some more.
Any ideas?
I have pretty much always wicked with cotton. And I'm a slave to trends, so when the "japanese cotton wicking movement of 2014" hit the U.S., I immediately jumped on board. I placed an order for some, but one of the problems is you have to order enough to last a lifetime. When it arrived (it looked very authentic with international postmarks and all...), I took a small stack and threw it in my vape box, sealed up the rest in the resealable bag it arrived in and threw it under the bathroom cabinet.
As I was using it, I noticed that there were extremely small little black spots scattered throughout the squares. Not many by any means. Very few. Maybe 4 or 5 on entire little square. And they didn't look "wet" or "grow-ey" or anything. And it tasted great to vape with, so I didn't give it any serious thought. So, after a couple of weeks (I re-wick a lot...), I went into the "giant cotton stash" and got another short-stack. Well, this time there were MANY MORE black spots.
My bathroom is a moist environment, yes. But I'm extremely clean, and they were sealed in a bag. And nothing else in my bathroom has black spots. Whatever those are, they arrived with. They're "fancy, semi-expensive, imported" black spots of some kind. I don't have a microscope laying around or anything, so I don't know. I mean, yeah, they may be organic, but they didn't look like shrubbery or anything. I threw them out and I'm afraid to buy some more.
Any ideas?
and more of them sounds like mold, be careful.
