Day 4 curing, Hay Smell
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TheSadBadGrower
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How long did you dry them for before putting in jars?
Renfro
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Harvesting too early is a common cause of the hay smell. It smells good when chopped only to lose that smell quickly. That said, it is normal for ripe weed to smell sorta like hay when it's partly dry but there should still be some dankness in there and when fully dried the hay smell is gone leaving only the dank terps.
FastFreddi
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Lay em out on newspaper or a paper bag, get the moisture content down.
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CptTripps
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Hijacking a bit to get @Renfro 's advice... (Edit: or @FastFreddi )
I chopped 7d ago. I wouldn't say it smells like hay, but just different....maybe it is hay. When. get close and smell the bud, it smells like the dank diesel I was expecting. I'm jarring this morning. Spent the last 7d drying. Small twigs snapped, but stayed connected by the outer skin.
So I should jar, and then give it a week or so to smell like ripe bud again?
I was thinking the issue was that I was drying in a cardboard box.
I chopped 7d ago. I wouldn't say it smells like hay, but just different....maybe it is hay. When. get close and smell the bud, it smells like the dank diesel I was expecting. I'm jarring this morning. Spent the last 7d drying. Small twigs snapped, but stayed connected by the outer skin.
So I should jar, and then give it a week or so to smell like ripe bud again?
I was thinking the issue was that I was drying in a cardboard box.
Renfro
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Take a small nug out and just let it dry completely. See how it smells. Thats the best it's gonna get.
When you smell weed it is the terpenes evaporating that you smell. When they run out then it's not gonna smell good anymore.
FastFreddi
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Hopefully, it will return.
I jar mine with more moisture content than many. I cannot stand dried to shit medication. It creates more work for me, ensuring burping, laying out if necessary, rejarring, burping, etc.
This works for me, but I also do not harvest pounds at a time...very personal sized grows. I use a lot..
Most would say way too much.
I use what I use.
Always out b4 next finish lol.
Anyway , hope this helped, prob not.
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I jar mine with more moisture content than many. I cannot stand dried to shit medication. It creates more work for me, ensuring burping, laying out if necessary, rejarring, burping, etc.
This works for me, but I also do not harvest pounds at a time...very personal sized grows. I use a lot..
Most would say way too much.
I use what I use.
Always out b4 next finish lol.
Anyway , hope this helped, prob not.
FF
FastFreddi
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I find if I dry too long, Terps evap and you get what you get. The curing process stops when the enzymes die off, due to various reasons, being too dry to start I believe is one.
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FastFreddi
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I also believe if it is grown well, and not harvested too early, that is the rub. You will have dank if you grow dank.
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Moldy
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FastFreddi
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I generally get pretty nice stuff, but thank you.
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FastFreddi
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I believe different techniques apply everywhere with the dry/cure aspect.
There are general guidelines, sure, but they are just that...guidelines.
Everyone has different environmental factors to contend with, preference of chop, strain, drying conditions, etc.
People sometimes growers push their own applied technique too....forcefully toward others?
I like letting others come to their conclusive methods on their own, with multiple input choices from others.
But hey, that's just me.
Peace.
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There are general guidelines, sure, but they are just that...guidelines.
Everyone has different environmental factors to contend with, preference of chop, strain, drying conditions, etc.
People sometimes growers push their own applied technique too....forcefully toward others?
I like letting others come to their conclusive methods on their own, with multiple input choices from others.
But hey, that's just me.
Peace.
FF
I dried from March 22 till April about 4th. Big stem snapped & it felt dry to touch. When I dry trimmed it seemed to rehydrate quickly & now every bud is soft to touch