Grassy smell during drying stage!!
Everything is coming along well! After 5-6 days of burp and cure the buds are now stable between 60-65% rh in the jars. Going to let them sit and plan to only open every 5 days or so. Going to do that for two weeks and than give a legit taste test. I snuck a taste test after one strain was in the jar for 3 days, still really wet but I could taste the potential. One thing I will say is this....thus far I vouch for DNA genetics.
Grow anything from their GYO line? I'm curing white walker as we speak
Woyaboy
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Once at 60-65 do you stop burping altogether?
Yes, maybe open them up once a week, just for a couple minutes, to remove gasses. I also like to reposition the buds as well.
Americanadian420
Member
Don’t you love how everyone has an answer... but not one to your question? I’m in the same boat as you... on my first harvest of some fiiire I put so much time effort and research into growing this properly and even more into drying and curing. I cut whole plant hung with fans on 3 days ago... in my bathroom temps between 61-68 F with 52-60% at a pretty steady 56% I had a mini fan blowing under the buds on high and I made sure not to have any direct air flow and have had my bathroom exhaust running here and there and today at the end of day 3 i can smell that harsh fresh grass smell. Stems not snapping, nugs still wet but the chlorophyll smell is getting stronger. When I squeeze a nug tho and smell my fingers ohhh my god does it smell good but when I just lean up and smell the buds it doesn’t smell? I’m assuming this is the process of chlorophyll breaking down and just being released into the air... and that at the end of this slow dry in about a week the bathroom will smell like OG! How did yours turn out? How many days did you end up hanging them?!
LinguaPeel
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You cannot smell chlorophyll in plant level concentrations. Youre signaling jasmonate hormones, which are produced instead of fatty acid derivatives that actually provide good Cannabis flavors. The soccer field smell is normal only if you chop wet, growing plants. It's the same signal being sent. The only time I smell the soccer field is from male flowers that fall off while collecting pollen, because I'm harvesting fresh pollen from a growing plant.
If you leave them rooted and cut off supplies slowly you can soon pluck buds right off and theyre already delicious, and ready to be cured into something even better. Drastic changes are weeds enemy. I don't even want my crop to know when it's been harvested. All the people who talk shit about skewering, flushing,boiling, etc, the soccer field smell is normal only to them. I'm about to go pick a skunky sugary,cotton mouth inducing bud off a rooted plant right now.
If you leave them rooted and cut off supplies slowly you can soon pluck buds right off and theyre already delicious, and ready to be cured into something even better. Drastic changes are weeds enemy. I don't even want my crop to know when it's been harvested. All the people who talk shit about skewering, flushing,boiling, etc, the soccer field smell is normal only to them. I'm about to go pick a skunky sugary,cotton mouth inducing bud off a rooted plant right now.
Americanadian420
Member
Hey man what happened??! I’m on day 4 of my first harvest and I did the exact same thing as you but my temps are 65F/55% and today it started smelling like straight lawnmower clippings!! When I squeeze the bud and smell my fingers it still smells super stanky like OG but all I’m guessing is it’s the chlorophyll breaking down and being released into the air and after I’m done curing it will go away
Grow So High
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Did you chop early? What did your results end up being now after I assume they are dried?
years later I respond....lol! Gotta love RIU. 4 out of 6 of the strains ended up coming out great! The other two I came to realize were Sativa dominant and could of easily went another 2 weeks or so before being chopped. They were aired and bland in taste. I will also add that those were the 2 strains I was most weary about from the start. All and all a good grow and I learned from it. Other 4 strains came out DANK with great flavors profile.
I do have questions surrounding peoples theory of curing with bovida packs. Do you think those take away from the smell and taste of your buds given the pack is “salt” based??
Boatguy
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Imo, it's another pointless product that i wont waste my money on again.
I bought some boveda's with the intention of using them once i got the jar humidity down to where i wanted it. A month later, the jars are still at 60, and i havent bothered adding them.
martiannbeanz
Member
so you recommend letting plant die on the vine ?
Rurumo
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We were just talking about this the other day. I like hanging the whole plant, though I do chop off at the base, but I'm going to try leaving one plant in the tent and just stop watering it, until it's "dry", or rather, ready to cure. Leaving the roots on would only slow down the drying process, which is the reason some of us whole plant dry, and dry trim. I have no idea if it will improve the final product, but a nice slow dry is more important than the cure, imo.
martiannbeanz
Member
You are right, curing is overrated i think. No magical taste or smell will appear if it was never even there to begin with. I think im going to try the same on my next harvest. I did have the issue of a chlorophyl smell when drying before and the bud ended up being just okay. Nothing amazing, but also not bad. Did not taste like chlorophyl, just didn't smell and taste nearly as good as the smells i got when it was in end of flowering. Probably dried a bit to quick because of my exhaust fan being to powerfull? But you learn by making mistakes, right? Next time i will not hang my plant in my tent but just in the growroom with slight air movement in the room at right rh and temp and hope for the best
Budzbuddha
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I believe his grassy smelling “ grass “ killed him back in 2016.