mold?

Thonk its bleaching. Look up on google "weed bleach ". With too strong light you get it on top buds.

looks more like bleached weed to me. happens from lighting issues. Not seeing mold though.

Oh, also you'd have colonies on leaves long before it infected buds. This would be impossible to miss.

Is that the very top of the cola? You may have just bleached the tips. The close-up is a bit blurry but you can see some full trichomes that aren't a gelatenous mess (melted, i assume) - clear capitulated stalks - and they don't look to have "hyphea" coating them -- the stringy anatomy of fungus. It would have a coating of fibrous-looking growth over the trichomes. you wouldn't see a perfectly isolate trichome. Should see a fibrous 'netting' over it... and it would be all over the fucking place, because mold grows like crazy, lol, it wouldn't be spotty. This is just a bleached portion of a bud. Probably won't taste that great but will still get you high. I'm 95% certain. Extreme light and heat melted trichomes into a gelatonous blob. No hyphae clearly seen in your pictures.... Some images i found that might help... these are the links to the images not the website that hosts them. "view file" from duckduckgosearch. https://percysgrowroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/powdery-mildew-vs-trichomes--1024x576.jpg This one is too far away but you can see how the individual triches are enveloped by the fungal growth and you don't see clear indidivual trichomes like the 'clean' half of the slide. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Js__i5RCa0Q/TTjcv0dQ18I/AAAAAAAAAKU/nkAshSvGMHA/s1600/mold+growing+on+weed%252C+the+420+shack.jpg https://percysgrowroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/powdery-midlew-vs-bud-rot-1024x576.jpg This last one shows the 'netting' i mention.. it's hard to miss and would obscure the trichomes.

Yup. Toss it.