Drying smell?

I have yet to perfect drying my plants because they all smell like hay every time. This room environment this time is: 64-72 degrees, 50-55% RH, slight air movement and completely dark, Hung full plant with only taking off large leaves. I started drying one full plant on 1/1/2019.
I know it is not really even close to being able to jar yet, but, I still get the hay smell. The outsides are just starting to dry but I think I will leave them for about another week. I can not conquer this. What am I doing wrong.

What are you doing with your buds after you dry them?

I put them in mason jars and burp them 3-4 times daily for a few weeks.

Are you using hygrometers in your jars?

I have not but I plan on it this next time. I grew this auto just to test this drying time to document what I am doing until my next crop is done.
Should they smell of hay at any time during their drying process? I and going to trim it tomorrow but leave it on the stems to see if that helps at all. I actually have never had it smell like this early in drying.

Dump jars and lay buds out ... do not let them clump. Allow more drying time.
You can use a mesh hanger also. The hay smell is from excess chlorophyll .



Use hygrometers in jar to watch RH as shown to monitor.

Your temps are good. Rh is good.

You want them to take about a week to dry. If need be leave the fan leaves on.

So it's been the week of drying. You want the stems to snap when you bend them. Not break completely in two. Just snap when you bend them.

Lay them in a large rubber maid tote. Put the Rh meter from your tent in there. Tape shut and leave over night for Rh to settle. Burp as needed. As you reach desired Rh put them in jars.

It can take a couple weeks for smell to come out.

Cut right before lights on for most smell. Lights evaporate terpenes. Cutting in the dark right before lights on will give the most smell.

Do you have any pictures from when you harvested?
How old was the plant?
How long did it actually flower for?

Frankly one of the biggest reasons I think many people have this issue with poor smell is cutting early.

These other guys made some good drying suggestions.

I wait to harvest until most red hairs are recessed and a lot of amber trichs.
I normally leave the plant in at least 24 hour dark period before I harvest.
I will try the plastic container and meter method.
Thank you all for the advice, much appreciated.

What are you doing wrong? Growing with chems.. Its impossible to fuck up real natural authentic quality pot aka soil.

Good stinky weed will stink up your house while it's growing. If you can't smell it when it's growing you probably won't smell much when it's dried.

LinguaPeel said:

What are you doing wrong? Growing with chems.. Its impossible to fuck up real natural authentic quality pot aka soil.

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Just curious do you know this grower? Where did he say anything about how he was growing?

It always smells good as I am growing. Filters are a god send. I do not do soil anymore. I have my reasons.

Precaution said:

I have yet to perfect drying my plants because they all smell like hay every time. This room environment this time is: 64-72 degrees, 50-55% RH, slight air movement and completely dark, Hung full plant with only taking off large leaves. I started drying one full plant on 1/1/2019.
I know it is not really even close to being able to jar yet, but, I still get the hay smell. The outsides are just starting to dry but I think I will leave them for about another week. I can not conquer this. What am I doing wrong.

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i can give you two tips that will help out tons on your next chop! my buds have the whole house stink in 3 seconds after opening a jar.. everyone in the party will look when you open your jars... for one let the plant finish the two times i chopped early i had a hay smell so dont cut down early... second tip is when your plant smells the most day time or night time... after watering or when its dry whenever it smells the most like omg she is fucking stinking chop her down! when my plants stink and i chop them they smell the whole time drying! extras no fans blowing on them at all ..no fan leaves when drying and also do a wet trim if you can! another thing is flushing too much if the plant dont smell when your cutting then it wont in the jar! sure you can get back some smell but my jars stink so bad when opened, if i give you a baggie your car is gonna smell like dank for 2 days!

i finally got my dry/cure better, those meters are a must. but they seem a bit high, like 4-5%. i have 4, all read the same, just seem off a bit. Ive found 55% is the magic number. I take big leafs off, hang in a wardrobe closet thing, with a small fan on the bottom, and since the humidity is lower in my house, i hang a tshirt wet down, to keep constant at 55% for 5 days, then let it drop to 40% for 12 hours, then back to 55% for a day, trim and jar, keeping 55% in the jar, burping or exchange air if gets above 60% for just a few seconds.

anyways, i was wondering, if you just hang your plant in the area at 68F and 55% humidity for like a month, isnt that curing? so chop, hang for a month, trim, jar, no burp needed?

InTheValley said:

anyways, i was wondering, if you just hang your plant in the area at 68F and 55% humidity for like a month, isnt that curing? so chop, hang for a month, trim, jar, no burp needed?

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Pretty much.

I have a curing room, I burp it by opening the door for a little while. Ceiling fan to move air around, and a carbon filter air scrubber.

I like to use bread trays for the weed, air flows well thru them, they can hold a dry weight of 5 to 8 ounces each depending on bud size. They are stackable and I even have dollies that they sit on so I can roll them around in batches of 26 trays. I have just over 200 trays and they will hold 40 pounds.

The buds won't hold at 55% RH for a month being hung.They'll dry down further and be finger dust by the time you jar them..I think.

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The buds won't hold at 55% RH for a month being hung.They'll dry down further and be finger dust by the time you jar them..I think.

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hummmmm, how would a 55% bud crumble? id imagine it would hold at that humidity level as long as its consistent from beginning to end of the 30 days. I was just wondering, if the bud has to actually be closed or surrounded by itself, to release gases and the other things that happen during the cure.

im going to try a branch when i chop my ShipWreck. Im going to whole hang the entire plant this time around in my grow room. No run after this one done.

Renfro said:

I have a curing room, I burp it by opening the door for a little while. Ceiling fan to move air around, and a carbon filter air scrubber.

I like to use bread trays for the weed, air flows well thru them, they can hold a dry weight of 5 to 8 ounces each depending on bud size. They are stackable and I even have dollies that they sit on so I can roll them around in batches of 26 trays. I have just over 200 trays and they will hold 40 pounds.

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seems like a great set-up for ya man, nice.