weed smell like fresh cut grass

[rabbit229]

why dose my weed smell like fresh cut grass every time? i must be doing some thing wrong

 

[SatansGift]

Are you drying it long enough after your harvest? It should take anywhere from 3 days to a week. Plus when you manicure your buds make sure you're getting off all the leaves. and jar it for at least a week burping it twice a day for about 30 min.

 

[Frankie Tousteppe]

Are you harvesting too early?

 

[Butthead08]

someone needs to make a sticky answering this question weed that smells like grass/hay means you cut the plant down too early it has nothing to do with how you cured it the smell wont get any better no matter how long you leave it in jars

 

[Frankie Tousteppe]

I agree with Butthead, I've seen this question posed a few times and I haven't even been here that long.

Mods?

 

[RickWhite]

someone needs to make a sticky answering this question weed that smells like grass/hay means you cut the plant down too early it has nothing to do with how you cured it the smell wont get any better no matter how long you leave it in jars

Not true - the curing process gets rid of the lawn mulch smell which is always there when you first dry your buds. Also see my post on "skipping curring."

But I do agree we need a sticky for a lot of things. I think the main problem is that the search feature is for shit so people ask the same questions ad-infinitum.

 

[Brick Top]

why dose my weed smell like fresh cut grass every time? i must be doing some thing wrong

If I had a dollar for ever time I answered this very same question I believe I could take a first class trip around the world and take the highest priced hooker in the world with me and have change left over.
　
This is just like déjà vu all over again!

I really, REALLY wish people would use the RIU search function and look for answers to their questions before starting the BILLIONTH thread asking the exact same question as all those before them did.
　
The odor is normal at first but it will go away with proper drying and curing but normally, at least not completely, it won't without proper drying and curing.
　
Learn it, live it, love it.


Marijuana

Manicuring, Drying, And Curing Marijuana



Right after all the plants have been harvested, it is time to manicure them. Manicuring is simply cutting off the leaves that were growing from the buds.

Cut off all the leaves surrounding the bud, so that just the bud remains.
Work over a glass table or some kind of smooth flat surface.

This will make it easy to collect all the material that has been cut away from the buds. It is lower in THC than the buds, but rather than throw it away, you can use it to make hash oil.

When manicuring the buds, use a pair of scissors with small blades (to reach hard to get leaves) that is comfortable on your hands.

If you have a small crop, you can handle the plants with you bare hands. With a large crop, wear powder free latex gloves.

The latex gloves will collect trichome resin in a similar manner to the way live marijuana plants are rubbed to make hashish.

The latex gloves have to be powder free or the powder will get mixed into the resin.

Do not touch anything other than the plants once you have put the gloves on. If you have to do something, remove the gloves you are wearing and put them in a plastic bag, prior to doing whatever it is that has to be done.

When finished, put on a pair of new gloves. Material on the first pair can be collected later. When you are finished manicuring all the plants, remove the gloves and place them in a plastic bag (to catch resin that drops off).

Put the plastic bag with the gloves in a freezer for 2-3 hours. The trichome resin can easily be peeled from the frozen latex gloves and consumed the same way you would use hashish.

If absolutely necessary, you can wait to manicure the buds. However, the job will take more time if you wait.

Manicuring right after the plants are harvested will also speed the drying process.

Instead smoking marijuana directly after it is harvested and manicured, it is best to dry and cure it.

Some new growers might be in such a rush to try the marijuana that they don't want to dry the crop, or they might be tempted to put buds in a microwave oven to dry them out.


Drying Marijuana After Harvest

You probably don't want to smoke marijuana that is harsh and bad tasting.

If you do not take time to dry the bud, you will not get the best possible smell and taste your crop is capable of producing.

Proper drying and curing will also ensure maximum potency of the marijuana you have grown.

Marijuana is not potent just after harvest. Some of the THC is in a non-psychoactive acidic form.

Drying marijuana the right way will convert the non-psychoactive acidic compounds into psychoactive THC.

The area where the drying is done should be dark. Light and high temperatures (higher than about 80 degrees) will cause THC to break down into less desirable chemicals, this will lower the potency of the finished product.

A good way to dry the crop is to hang the buds upside-down by the stem, from some string or wire. The drying marijuana must have some circulation blowing over it at all times. A gentle breeze that circulates over all the plants is necessary.

A fan or two will circulate air within the drying room. Fans will aid in drying the plants evenly, and reducing the chances of mold. If mold starts and is allowed to grow, it might ruin all of your crop. Mold looks like white fuzz and has an odor that is unpleasant.

You will have to keep the temperature and humidity within a certain range for optimal results.

Conditions should remain constantly somewhere within the following ranges, temperature should be between 65-75 degrees F, relative humidity should be between 45%-55%.

At temperatures lower than 65 degrees, drying time will be lengthened.

At temperatures higher than 75 degrees, the heat will cause the outer portion of the bud to dry quicker than the inner part, and the taste will suffer.

At humidity levels lower than 45%, the marijuana will dry too fast and the taste will suffer.

At humidity levels higher than 55%, the marijuana will take a long time to dry, and it will be prone to mold.

Keep a hygrometer and a thermometer in the drying area, close to the plants. A hygrometer will allow you to keep an eye on the relative humidity level in the room and a thermometer will display the temperature.

Some hygrometers

have built in thermometers so you can measure the temperature and humidity together.

Depending on the time of year and your location, a heater or an air conditioner may be necessary to adjust the temperature.

To control humidity, a dehumidifier can lower humidity and a humidifier can be used to raise humidity.

There are warm mist humidifiers and cool mist humidifiers.

A warm mist humidifier will raise the temperature while a cool mist humidifier will not affect the temperature.

There are also humidifiers that allow you to switch between warm or cool mist.

If you are going to purchase a humidifier for this purpose, take your climate into consideration and buy an appropriate humidifier.

Warm mist models will actually heat the water and release warm humidity.

Cool mist water isn't cooled, it just means that water is not heated.

In most cases a cool mist will work best. To be safe you can get a humidifier that lets you switch between warm and cool mist.


Curing Marijuana

It will take at least a week or two to dry the crop with temperatures between 65-75 degrees F and relative humidity between 45%-55%.

You will know when the marijuana is dry if the stems snap or break (rather than fold) when they are bent.

Try smoking a small bud (1/2 gram or less) in a joint to be sure it is dry enough.

At this time, small buds will be dry enough to smoke. But larger buds should be cured (slow dried) to ensure that the marijuana is as potent and tasty as possible.

If necessary, you can set aside buds that are less than 1/2 gram for smoking, while larger buds cure.

The cure lasts a week or two. The aim of what you are doing is evenly finishing the slow dry process, so that mold will not grow when the buds are stored long term.

Also, by the end of the cure, any remaining inactive THC will be converted to active THC (that increases potency).

To cure the crop, you will need one or more containers made out of glass or plastic.

Some people say plastic can impart a taste to the marijuana. Personally, plastic containers that some types of roll your own tobacco are sold in, have no negative effect on the taste.

Containers that have a rubber seal work best, but any type of container with a tight fitting lid will do.

One quart canning jars do a very good job if you are curing a few pounds or less. They have a rubber seal and hold 2 or more ounces of marijuana per one quart jar.

When curing quantities in excess of a few pounds, large (over 40 quarts) plastic storage boxes

are recommended.

They are not air tight, but will do the job when smaller air tight containers are not practical.

Gently place your marijuana in the containers (cut buds to size if the are too big to fit in the container) and put the top on.

Store the containers in a dark area where the temperature is between 50-65 degrees and the humidity is between 40%-60%.

You will have to open the containers for a few minutes to allow moisture to escape by fanning with your hand.

If any moisture builds up on the inside of the cap on your container, wipe it off.

Do this preferably 2-6 times daily, at regular 4-12 hour intervals.

You should also re-arrange the buds by giving them a quarter-turn once a day. This will ensure that different parts of the buds are exposed to the air in the container.

Keep up this routine for 7-10 days. When properly dried, marijuana will burn evenly when smoked in a joint (if stems are removed).

The taste will be as good as it can be, and the THC will have reached a point where it is ready to be ingested or stored.

You can keep any marijuana that will be consumed within a few months (1 year maximum) in the same containers used for curing, without having to keep opening them to release moisture.

If the marijuana is to be stored for more than a few months, you can use a vacuum sealer (designed for storing food) to seal the marijuana in an airtight environment.

If stored in a dark area that is between 40-55 degrees F, the marijuana in vacuum sealed plastic will remain potent for up to 5 years.

Dry marijuana can be stored in a frost-free freezer, but some of the THC on the outer part of the buds may be damaged when frozen.

A refrigerator is in the right temperature range but they tend to be humid (unless you can control the humidity).

If stored in an area of high humidity for months or years, even vacuum sealed marijuana can eventually become as humid as the surrounding air. This will necessitate drying it again before smoking. But, unless mold develops, humidity itself will not degrade the THC or make the marijuana any less potent.

Light will degrade some of the THC, so dark containers can be used for storage.

If you place the marijuana in a see through container, it will have to be located in a dark area that is not exposed to light or high temperatures.

Always make sure to properly dry your marijuana prior to storage, if you grow your own or if the stuff you have is very moist.

And remember that to preserve marijuana potency at a maximum level, keep any exposure to air, heat, and light at a minimum.

 

[poopycheeks]

How about if you dont like peoples questions dont anwser them or read them. Leave it for the people who want anwser them and help them out. Sometimes people would just like to hear an opinion directly for there situation.

You probably just need to flush them better and get all the nutes out of them. Only use water the last 2 weeks. When you hang your buds to dry and the enviroment is to humid this can trap that bad smell/flavor. Usually that earthy plant smell/taste is chlorophyll. Anyways hopefully you find out the problem, because after all your hard work you want to be 100% satisfied with your buds. Good Luck!

 

[anthonytaurus]

LOL.. it's the dry/cure process folks. Don't let em fool you into thinking it's anything else.

What you are smelling is the chlorophyll in the plant which is why it smells like fresh cut lawn. What does lawn, marijuana, and all plants share in common - chlorophyll. The drying process is not only for the plant to lose water, it's to give time for the chlorophyll to break down. You've got to make sure it's DRY to the point that the stem SNAPS when you try to break it. The curing process will bring the smell and taste and spread out the remaining moisture into the bud and help increase potency as well.

Seriously, listen to Brick Top. Folks should do a search. People write up entire tutorials on these things to help us all understand and I think it's a slap in the face if you don't at least do a search. When I grew my first plant, I rarely asked questions because everything I needed to know was within a search term. The type of questions I asked were more about confirming what I saw in other posts. The OP could have done a google search and found the right answer.

example
search terms: marijuana fresh cut lawn smell
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=ytff-&p=marijuana+fresh+cut+lawn+smell

4th link down leads me to
http://www.everything2.com/title/Quality%2520Marijuana

where I find this line
"Lower quality weed will sometimes smell like a freshly mowed lawn, or a leafy bush. This is because bad weed is usually not dried out properly and is still covered in chlorophyll, which gives it that "grassy" smell."

I don't think Brick Top is wrong for pointing out that the OP could have done a search.

 

[Johnnyorganic]

someone needs to make a sticky answering this question weed that smells like grass/hay means you cut the plant down too early it has nothing to do with how you cured it the smell wont get any better no matter how long you leave it in jars

LOL! Apparently someone should read a few stickies.

As has been mentioned previously in this thread, it has virtually nothing to do with the timing of the harvest. Chlorophyll is present when the live plant is harvested, hence the grass smell. It is perfectly normal. Chlorophyll dissipates during the drying and subsequent curing process.

 

[mutzilla]

Alright so what if when you cut it it smells like dank and then 5 days later when it is dry it smells lite grass. same thing? curing should cure this?

 

[rookie49]

Alright so what if when you cut it it smells like dank and then 5 days later when it is dry it smells lite grass. same thing? curing should cure this?

I'm new as well but if it helps, that's exactly what i gathered from the subsequent replies.

 

[stonedcold89]

i was wonderin this myself. about three or four weeks into flowering i could touch a bud and my fingers would stick together, and smell dankity dank. now a few weeks later, its definitely more strong/grassy smelling. I'm gonna use molasses for one more week, then flush for another week, maybe two. after that I plan on dryin and curing the right way. waited way to long to slack off now lol

 

[OldManPot]

as has been said time and time again, the "grass" smell (where marijuana got its nickname in the 60's) comes from chlorophyll breaking down. once you start smelling that smell, it still has a few days worth of drying to go, and a curing comming.

grass smell because you cut to soon?

BAWHAHAHAH!

 

[manlookingj]

Number one, you harvested to early. Two, probably dried it too fast, I do it all the time, unfortunately. Get impatient with things.
But leads into an interesting point. I've noticed that cannabis, has several different groupings of smells from certain plants(when we let them mature). I've noticed, the spicy, close to a hayish tone. A musky, smoother tone. And skunk. Which is what it is, but skunk will always get you stoned. The stinkier the better. A friend had some Diesel/AK47 x Lowlife auto flower in bloom, it was sticky, and had a Heavy pine scent, quite strong, I was surprised.
Anyways, sorry for rambling, but that's my input.

 

[ftpstrangr]

Not true - the curing process gets rid of the lawn mulch smell which is always there when you first dry your buds. Also see my post on "skipping curring."

But I do agree we need a sticky for a lot of things. I think the main problem is that the search feature is for shit so people ask the same questions ad-infinitum.

Haha I was about to start a post. The search engine is a joke, I found this article by searching Google for my problem.

 

[ftpstrangr]

as has been said time and time again, the "grass" smell (where marijuana got its nickname in the 60's) comes from chlorophyll breaking down. once you start smelling that smell, it still has a few days worth of drying to go, and a curing comming.

grass smell because you cut to soon?

BAWHAHAHAH!

I actually did not know that's where the nickname came from. It all makes sense now haha
REP+++

 

[tyke1973]

Harvesting far to early this is the main reason for the end product not smelling

 

[mr. green thumb 01]

Harvesting far to early this is the main reason for the end product not smelling

not true IMO you can harvest to late and have the same effect

drying to fast can have the same effect

Imo curing does not CHANGE the smell it makes it stronger and more like what it smelled like right before you cut it.

Harvest when the smell is at its strongest

 

[stumpjumper]

"I squeeze my buds and they smell great but a week later they don't smell no more".... lol


Maybe because you over handled them? I don't touch them at all!! I don't like the idea of putting them in bags to dry and damaging any trichs either..