did i dry too fast?

i hung dried for 4 days, after it seemed pretty dry, i put em in paper bags over night, and then today i put em in jars. They smell like straight hay, so did i dry them too fast, or are they supposed to smell like ass at the beginning of curing. 4 days hung dry, 1 day paper bag, currently in jars 1st day. srry about the pictures, i cant figure out how to turn the flash off on my camera. lol fuckin things

Do the stems snap when you bend them? Its not abnormal for them to smell like hay for a few weeks.

suprisingly they dont, a couple do but they are skinny ones, most of the stems are pretty fat, but the bud seems dry

After you keep them sealed in the jars the stems should moisten up the buds a little bit.

mafia said:

After you keep them sealed in the jars the stems should moisten up the buds a little bit.

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ok, do you think i should be worried. would it be a good idea to rehydrate one jar and see how it compares with the rest or do you think i should at least wait a week?

shmow52 said:

ok, do you think i should be worried. would it be a good idea to rehydrate one jar and see how it compares with the rest or do you think i should at least wait a week?

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relax, your weed is fine. burp the jar a couple times a day for ab out 2 weeks. when you stick your nose in the jar then, you will notice a difference, when you break your bud up to roll it or b put in a pipe,.......dankity dank. i broke some fresh stuff this evening that really didnt aquire much smell. if there would have been a dope dog within 3 miles he could have smelled it. awesome. and yours will do the same in time.

shmow52 said:

ok, do you think i should be worried. would it be a good idea to rehydrate one jar and see how it compares with the rest or do you think i should at least wait a week?

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dont worry about rehydrate. your stems still hold a lot of water. keep the jar closed a full day before opening. should notice a huge difference before and after.

jeff f said:

dont worry about rehydrate. your stems still hold a lot of water. keep the jar closed a full day before opening. should notice a huge difference before and after.

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alright thnx, just worried because the 2 previous dries were fucked up.

I had some Sour Grapes that I thought I messed up but when I broke it up, planning on throwing it in the grinder for butter, it smelled awesome. So I stuck it all back in the jar and left it. Opened the jar a few days later and it was dank.

Like jeff said, just hang in there and give a couple weeks. It'll come around...

hi not to hijack this but I also have problem drying mine I put mine in a grow tent with a fan on and when I post here that my buds were a little moist and the stem didn't snap and someone replay and said wait till the stem snaps and now most of my buds are really dry and when I squeeze my buds it crumbles and breaks off easy and I have them in a jar. Now my question is will the stems make my buds not as dry as now?

i have found the hay smell comes from picking to early or leaving to many sun leaves.

i have never had dried bud smell like hay that was grown to full bloom

Also to give you a idea when i was moving larger amounts from chop to sale was 4-5 days so helping the moisture out doesnt make it poor.
i used to use the pilot on the oven to dry them. leaving the door cracked. it worked quick with no heat besides the pilot

seems fine....your buds are a bit leafy, and when the buds and leaf dry, they give off a grassy "hay" smell. This is the chlorophyll drying out...If your buds are crispy, and your stems are still a bit bendy, a good jarring will make everything fine and give them a good smell after a few weeks.

Air the jars out once or twice a day for a week, then once or twice a week for a month. They will then be very good.

i usually try to remove as much as the stem i can after i have let it dry for a few days the stems hold alot more moisture than the buds themselves and you will get the bud to dry faster and start curing sooner. most people leave it on the stem because it is easy to hang that way. i have also seen a nice diy dryer that is very simple to use and make and it came from the food network when alton brown on good eats was making beef jerky. it has been modified to handle some ordor control also/ things tou need are some central air vent filters. and a 3m odor eater vent filter and a box fan. trim all you buds from the stems and place them on the vent filters. and continue layering so much bud on each filter. the slots on the filter aloow for some nice size buds to fit perfectly and on the last layer use the 3m odor controled(carbon)filter as the last one and then use a bunji cord to hold all the filters to the box fan. place then on the suction side of fan. this will pull air thru the filters over the buds and the 3m will absorb all the order and your bud will be dried perfectly in just a dry or 2 and almost cured with in a week. it also makes jerk in just a few days. multi tasking a diy doesnt get better than that.
you will strat to have it smell like you think it shouyld smell with in a week by the end of the second week it will be awsome sticky happy smoke. hpe this helped you justa little