Bud keeps comeing out smelling like grass cuttings

i have done like 6 grow all ready i got every thing down my shit looks fire and smells so good befor drying then i cut it and hang it and it fucks up i even try to wet trim and see if it made a difference but still fucks up its in the dark it gets air i let it dry for 8 days but still that dam grass smell can some one tell me what i am doing wrong

how long are you curing for?

You are drying too fast and not giving them a proper cure.

Sounds like you are only drying (for way too long) and not curing at all. I could be misunderstanding what you are saying though, your post seemed a bit vague. Then again I've been smoking a lot tonight. Anyways, this is a really good post to start off with : https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html . Really good method there from a really experienced grower and it only takes about 2 minutes to read his entire process. Keep in mind everyone has their own way of doing things and you will most likely alter the process in some way to fit you and your clientele's likings, this is just a solid starting point.

huey14 said:

i have done like 6 grow all ready i got every thing down my shit looks fire and smells so good befor drying then i cut it and hang it and it fucks up i even try to wet trim and see if it made a difference but still fucks up its in the dark it gets air i let it dry for 8 days but still that dam grass smell can some one tell me what i am doing wrong

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cure,, cure,,

you dont need to cure,,

i have never cured weed in my life.

i sell it, i dont smoke it and i have a huge queue of buyers waiting on this grow finishing.

i dry it at 40% hr 18c with oscilating fans on in the room facing down to the floor to stir the air and i do it for 5 days.
on the 6th day i bag it, and on the 7th day well we all know what happens on the 7th day!!!

it sounds to me as though you are drying it in a place lined with plastic walls and it is dampness that gives you that smell, think of grass trimmings in a huge pile in the summer, dig down to the bottom and its warm/hot and damp and stinks that is what you have.

get some fresh air in there, and open the drying room door a few times a day.
the secret is to make sure there is no high humidity, dampness.

curing it is just a way to ferment it further, rather like alcohol, you put it in to mason jars and open them 15 minutes per day and your buds can last up to a year.

all that hard work ruined beacause you knackered the dry process.

and do not dry it too quick either.

what are you growing ? hemp?

WeeGogs said:

I have never cured weed in my life.
I sell it, I don't smoke it and I have a queue of buyers waiting on this grow finishing.

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Interesting.... do you live around where I do? 'Cause none of the growers flush around here and I'm surrounded by peeps that buy that crap all day. 'Course it prolly wouldn't matter much if they did flush... their grow style sucks. (Hopefully you cut your feed quite a bit before chopping with no flush.)

Huey14: The "Grassy" smell comes from the chlorophyll in the plant. Sounds like you're running too much nitrogen in your bloom nutes. This also decreases the amount of THC produced and increases stemmyness and leafyness.


1. Read up on "Curing" and you'll notice most (if not all) of the "grassy" smell going away after a couple of weeks.

2. Check your nutes and find a way to decrease the nitrogen... at least for the last half of flowering if nothing else.

3. Water with plain water the last 2 weeks.... Just plain water and the same amount you would normally water them with when feeding. (No drowning necessary)

You'll LOVE the changes!

Stay Safe!

Remember to flush your girls with fresh clean H2O for 7 to as much as 14 days just before harvest. Then no water for around three or four days right before you harvest, don't wait for them to wilt or anything dumb but not watering just before you harvest is important ! it cuts your drying time down. After you Harvest then you want to dry in a room thatis dark and cool around 72-76 degrees. Keep your humidity around Forty percent for this stage, KEEP AIR CLEAN AND CIRCULATING AND DO NOT POINT YOUR FAN DIRECTLY AT THE FLOWERS, ONLY ENOUGH TO KEEP THE AIR FRESH AND BE PATIENT!!! Dry until stems have a snap when bent. drying take at least two weeks, maybe three. then cut off your stems and put them in the curing jars, Sealed glass around 1 gallon size and only fill it half to three quarters, it must be kept in a cool dark place and you have to open the jar min. four times a day for 15min. a good cure will take another two weeks minimum. You'll be happy and dont rush it or you might as well smoke your front lawn!! HA HA
You'll do fine and you can find those digital humidity temp meters that you leave in the jar on Ebay> Its the best way and youll end up with a perfect smoke every time.
Be cool and Peace
Loaded For Bud
PS no one helped me!! took a while to get it right when your done you'll have that nice danke scent. your gonna love it!!!
oh ya and that smell you got is because the clorophyll was still in the plant and that means Slow down, :^)

one moldy nugget can ruin the cure of a whole pound or more, if kept int he same jar/container

it can just DESTROY the taste/smell of a strain in HOURS...forever

the mold could be invisible too...just look a like a dark part of a nugget

Sure, you can sell the shit before its cured. Alot of People dont know any better and probably assume you did or dont care or realize its importance. Why not take some pride in your work instead of selling sub-par lower potency bud though? is it all about the money to you or what?

Thanks every one for the help i try to cure two times now and fuck it up mold both times and i habe been going high on the nitrogen late in flower i cut it out see if it helps so much time and work and for ut to look nice but not smell good is driveing me crazy

It could be genetics also. some have that grass smell. if your getting mold then your not dry enough before you jar it up. make sure you check in the middle of the bud every day for fuzzy grey or white. if you see it cut it out and dry some more.do not spray buds at all during the last 4 weeks of flower.

HydroSoil said:

Interesting.... do you live around where I do? 'Cause none of the growers flush around here and I'm surrounded by peeps that buy that crap all day. 'Course it prolly wouldn't matter much if they did flush... their grow style sucks. (Hopefully you cut your feed quite a bit before chopping with no flush.)

Huey14: The "Grassy" smell comes from the chlorophyll in the plant. Sounds like you're running too much nitrogen in your bloom nutes. This also decreases the amount of THC produced and increases stemmyness and leafyness.


1. Read up on "Curing" and you'll notice most (if not all) of the "grassy" smell going away after a couple of weeks.

2. Check your nutes and find a way to decrease the nitrogen... at least for the last half of flowering if nothing else.

3. Water with plain water the last 2 weeks.... Just plain water and the same amount you would normally water them with when feeding. (No drowning necessary)

You'll LOVE the changes!

Stay Safe!

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what the fuck are you talking about, flushing, every fucking amateur on rollitup knows to flush weed with water the last two weeks and no water the last 3 days.

curing weed is an act for the connoisseur, for fucks sake he has not even learned to dry it yet and you want him smoking the equivalant of havana cigars in a week.

let him get a fucking smoke of his own weed before you preach professional grow.

stick to telling the big boys what to do.

darkdestruction420 said:

Sure, you can sell the shit before its cured. Alot of People dont know any better and probably assume you did or dont care or realize its importance. Why not take some pride in your work instead of selling sub-par lower potency bud though? is it all about the money to you or what?

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i only sell one kind of weed, barneys farm lsd, vegged for 2 weeks and flowered for 65 days until milky trichs just turning amber, water only for last 10 days grown in.... wait for it....canna terra professional plus soil,, 3 days without water before cut down, and i use a secret concoction of nutes.
and thats my fucking business knowing what they are, you cure if you want to cure, but my weed is dried in 5 days bagged on the 6th and sold on the 7th.
if you want to act like a fucking know it all hero it wont fucking wash with me pal.
i know what i know.

and my fucking skunk is the best.

whoa everyone just needs to take a hit off the bowl and chill out.
i recently harvested and now curing my buds. take a look at this site op. http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=156237 it will explain the curing process after you dried your bud. when they say jar your product they mean a mason jar.(canning jar) you can get them at walmart by the pots and pans ect. i bought a 12 pack of jars and lids and the whole nine yards for like 5 or 6 bucks. check that link and if you have any questions ask me i dont know much but ill try to help with what i know.

now when you dry it you dont want a fan blowing directly on the buds but you want the air to circulate. fresh air is nice. try hanging your freshly chopped bud in your grow room. turn the lights off. and make sure it is getting fresh air. check the buds daily. is the humidity is up its gonna take a few days more to dry. good air circulation is a must! but keep the fans from blowing directly on the drying bud. i run a fan on the floor and my exhaust running. hang the buds higher in the room.

I hang mine in the closet, and found having a fan on just overdries them in 2-3 days. I leave the closet door closed now with no fan on, and open it once or twice a day so the air doesn't get stagnant. I don't know how folks have a fan on in the room and don't get overdried smoke. Even with the door closed they are real crispy by 3 days, if I left them for even a week they'd be crumbly. And no, I don't live in a desert environment, just in Nor Cal

As most people here have indicated, you need to dry to a point, then cure in jars. I jar when the bud stays at 70%. I use small hygrometers to measure the humidity. I then burp daily and slowly bring the Rh down to 60%. The weed gets better and better. Fact

well i can add a bit......i think i finally have the curing thing figured out and i have to agree with weegogs, it isnt really necessary............being a rookie i always heard so much about curing and drying that i didnt want to ruin it.....long story short the bud always ended up in the jar too early and the smell in the jar was some what plant like.........i have now learned to let the plant dry all the way out and bud smell pretty damn potent as soon as hit the jars........its been 24 hours and my buds are still rock solid and smelling super dank like the shit i used to pay top dollar for........the smell the plant had while growing is what i get when i open the jars............although i did have one strain that didnt have any odor all through flowering which i harvested last week

so at the end of the day curing may fine tune the flavor of the bud, but after putting a match to the bud i dont think your gonna notice much of a difference in taste

I have quick dried bud...once. I think everyone should try it. Just to get a baseline. I wouldn't do it again. Tobacco isn't prepared that way for a reason.

The good news: To each his own. Smoke it green or dry it to crispness. It's your herb.