That smell also comes when you harvest too early.
For you AZ boys. What's your drying method?
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Bird Gymnastics
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How do you over dry? The only way I could ever over dry is if I had to leave town on an emergency. Even in AZ, after 4 days I'm wondering why it's still moist
just has to be dark and cool and you shouldn't have any problems.Lucius Vorenus
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That smell is typically there while you are trimming wet plants. It tends to get LOCKED into the buds when you overdry it too quickly. To me I find stems are snapping within 48hrs out here. even with a humidifier in the room. I just went straight into paper bags this last time once they hung for a day or two.
Lucius Vorenus
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4 days hang dry here my first time around and they were dry to the bone. Curing was purposeless because there was no moisture left in the buds to pull out.How do you over dry? The only way I could ever over dry is if I had to leave town on an emergency. Even in AZ, after 4 days I'm wondering why it's still moist
I think my brown bagging it is the key here now.
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fatboyOGOF
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at first, i'd keep the colas together. i'd hang them for a slow dry. fan blowing in the room but not on the colas. after a few grows, i said fuck it and just started chopping up the colas, putting the buds on newspaper, turning them over once a day and about 3 days later they were ready for the paper bag for sweating then into ball jars.
i stopped using the paper bags and go right from the newspaper to ball jars and burp as needed. i keep my bud's humidity between 60 and 65%.
read this thread. i never thought about measuring the humidity in the ball jars until i read this. it has some decent info.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=156237
i stopped using the paper bags and go right from the newspaper to ball jars and burp as needed. i keep my bud's humidity between 60 and 65%.
read this thread. i never thought about measuring the humidity in the ball jars until i read this. it has some decent info.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=156237
fatboyOGOF
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if your bud gets too dry, you can rehydrate it but from what i understand, the pot won't be curing anymore. so try not to dry them out! 
I have done this. Harvested right before Thanksgiving and hung to dry with a buddy. When I came back all the buds were over dry. I rehydrated but they never cured properly. It was blue cheese if I remember correctly so it still came out pretty killer.if your bud gets too dry, you can rehydrate it but from what i understand, the pot won't be curing anymore. so try not to dry them out!
Lucius Vorenus
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But if it gets too dry, too quick, you're fucked because it will always smell like hayif your bud gets too dry, you can rehydrate it but from what i understand, the pot won't be curing anymore. so try not to dry them out!
Bird Gymnastics
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The only way I found for the bud to smell like hay is if you degrade the trichromes. Meaning you have some light in the room that you are drying in. Even if my bud drys in 3 days or 8 days that dank smell stays with them...I guess it falls back on genetics or maybe I'm lucky...who knows. I will advise to not dry fast but the only strain I ever had to smell like hay was my first grow, from bag seed.
RoosterJCogburn
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Let me start off by saying that I have been growing for years and haven't really been turned on to the idea of internet forums dedicated towards the cannabis community until recently, so please excuse my ignorance on some matters. I am definitely glad I was turned on to RIU though. Good people sharing good ideas.
My method has been outdoor growing for years at the cabin but recently I found myself moving it all inside. Since moving back into the city, I have been hit by several different factors while cultivating. All but one have been addressed. However, harvest time has been the most concern lately. What is all this talk about paper bagging or boxing up your buds as part of the process? When you say paper bag it, do you then place those paper bags back into the cool dark environment where you originally hang dry them? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that it may be more beneficial to skip the hang drying and just go straight to paper bags or boxes, then jars for the final cure due to the arid climate within the city. Do you place your buds into the paper bags or cardboard boxes while still on them stems or after they are clipped to nug size, then jar them? I just don't want to risk all that time and effort to have my buds rapidly sucked dry of all moisture and become useless.
I am currently dealing with approximately 78-80 F and 38-42% RH in my room. I cannot stand to see these parameters and feel comfortable while I contemplate a new harvest & curing strategy. I can tackle the temp and climate control in time so you need not worry. You cannot control mother nature, but you can work with her..
My method has been outdoor growing for years at the cabin but recently I found myself moving it all inside. Since moving back into the city, I have been hit by several different factors while cultivating. All but one have been addressed. However, harvest time has been the most concern lately. What is all this talk about paper bagging or boxing up your buds as part of the process? When you say paper bag it, do you then place those paper bags back into the cool dark environment where you originally hang dry them? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that it may be more beneficial to skip the hang drying and just go straight to paper bags or boxes, then jars for the final cure due to the arid climate within the city. Do you place your buds into the paper bags or cardboard boxes while still on them stems or after they are clipped to nug size, then jar them? I just don't want to risk all that time and effort to have my buds rapidly sucked dry of all moisture and become useless.
I am currently dealing with approximately 78-80 F and 38-42% RH in my room. I cannot stand to see these parameters and feel comfortable while I contemplate a new harvest & curing strategy. I can tackle the temp and climate control in time so you need not worry. You cannot control mother nature, but you can work with her..
RoosterJCogburn
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Exactly what I was thinking too. I've found that lately the hang drying has been limited to 24-36 hours, sometimes even 48 hrs. I believe that may be due to the current temps and climate of the harvest room. Once you do this paper bag method, do you then place them back in the same cool dark environment they were hanging to dry? Would you double bag them (one inside of the other) and clip them shut or just leave the top folded over?
BeaverHuntr
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Same here I'm usually ready to cure after 3 days. I tried the paper bag method a couple times but I dont think its really all that necessary with the fast drying conditions here in AZ. The two times I tried the paper bag I over dried.
RoosterJCogburn
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Your method sounds similar to my current system of hang dry & then jar. Is that how you harvest? Glad to know it does work down here in the city. I don't think I will be trying the bag method this time around. However, it is good to know that there is an alternative process to my old method. I don't always like change and once I find a tried & true method of doing something, I usually just attempt to adapt it to each changing scenario. Analyze, adapt and overgrow.
BeaverHuntr
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"analyze, adapt and overgrow" I like your style...Yes all I do is hang dry usually 3-5 days and then into jars for curing, and my sealed room with co2 pretty much has the same conditions as your grow area My temps go from 75 degrees lights off up to 83 degrees with lights on, humidity is always 40%-55% with plants that are alive.. When I trim and start to dry the RH drops into the high 20's -high 30's
RoosterJCogburn
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Thank you. I'm glad we can share things like this as a community here in Arizona now. I am also VERY glad to see that your parameters sound exactly like mine too! I was very concerned with the climate and how it would affect the cultivation process. Its comforting to see someone else spell out those same measurements that I've been getting. Big sigh of relief.
