Renfro
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You smell weed because terpenes evaporate over time. Storing your weed just allows it to loose more flavor.
Grassy smell when does it go away?
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kgp
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Not who you quoted but I will answer my opinion. After a couple weeks of drying and being weighed up, the weed I grow is really loud. A couple grams in the pocket of your jeans will stink up the whole area around you. I've been kicked out of the club a couple times for having a couple grams in my pocket. I have cured buds before and they are definitely not as loud, its a much more mellow smell. I highly prefer it the other way.
waterproof808
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The idea of putting almost dry weed in jars and burping daily to let moisture out is the number one way people end up starting threads like "my buds smell like hay, how long till it gets better."
Good genetics grown and dried properly will smoke proper right off the drying rack.
Good genetics grown and dried properly will smoke proper right off the drying rack.
Renfro
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Exactly.
Bobby Long Buds
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Please help me figure out why my outdoor tastes green every year. I’ve got my dry room at 15 c 50 humidity. The indoor from that same room is perfect after a month or less. Outdoor always has a green taste to it.
Could it to too much phosphorus?
Genetics can’t explain why my indoor tastes great but the same plant outdoors tastes green.
I trim wet with great success with indoor. I’m about ready to stop outdoor if I can’t figure it out.
Renfro
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Outdoor weed will never taste like indoor weed. Too many environmental factors degrading terpenes as they are being produced.
kgp
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Try to dry trim. To me it makes all the difference in the world. My outdoor actually has stronger terps than my indoor. Maybe not by smell but definitely by taste.
Bobby Long Buds
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waterproof808
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Nah, I dont believe that. I think stronger terps is one area where outdoor has an advantage over indoor...at least the outdoor I'm used to in Hawaii.
ganga gurl420
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I'm with you on that
It depends on who is growing it. You can't duplicate mother nature!!! Two of my strains grown outdoors in Colorado tested at 28% some of the best smoke you ever tasted. All organic as well never any hay smell and I always trim wet. Also my other 4 strains tested out in the high 20% range. So genetics is key plus lots of other growing factors.
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Richard Noggin
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You could always order some terpine smell and cut them..... for shame.
BrewersToker
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All I know is my long dried, long cured bud is some flame.
That's all I need to know. I dry and cure and after four weeks of that slow process I got some dank bud.
That's all I need to know. I dry and cure and after four weeks of that slow process I got some dank bud.
Seawood
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I’m no expert but the only things that I’ve found to definitely affect the quality (terpenes/smoke) of your bud are:
1. Genetics
2. Harvesting too early
3. Drying too fast or in the wrong environment (too hot/humid)
Everything else seems to be a matter of opinion. I’ve wet vs dry trimmed. Other than appearance, no difference in terpenes/smoke. Same with growing medium/nutes. Gave my buddy some cuttings and he grew with his own organic soil. You couldn’t tell a difference from his pot to mine, which was grown in promix with chemical nutes. Others results may vary but I feel there sure is a hell of a lotta hair splitting and theorizing with growing weed. As long as the plants get what they need during the grow and a few basics are followed during harvest/curing, you’ll end up with good product. I think people just need to stop thinking about growing pot right after smoking it. LOL
1. Genetics
2. Harvesting too early
3. Drying too fast or in the wrong environment (too hot/humid)
Everything else seems to be a matter of opinion. I’ve wet vs dry trimmed. Other than appearance, no difference in terpenes/smoke. Same with growing medium/nutes. Gave my buddy some cuttings and he grew with his own organic soil. You couldn’t tell a difference from his pot to mine, which was grown in promix with chemical nutes. Others results may vary but I feel there sure is a hell of a lotta hair splitting and theorizing with growing weed. As long as the plants get what they need during the grow and a few basics are followed during harvest/curing, you’ll end up with good product. I think people just need to stop thinking about growing pot right after smoking it. LOL
I gotta say I'm a little confused now, too. Haha.
Alrightee then, my slight bit of new found understanding/confidence is now shattered by the likes of you two guys. Haha
So I need to "find good genetics that nobody is willing to share" (or has) in the first place. Grow it, check. Chop/harvest it, check. Dry for two weeks (is that what you're saying?) then I'll get kicked outta clubs for loudness. Sure sounds like a lot of missing details.
I'm mostly joking here but where can I get the more detailed version of this process guys? Or is the same one most people are using except...you have better genetics and so everything is amazing smelling one day when you walk into the drying room, with fan leaves and shit still on the buds, curled up around and hugging them for dear life.
(I'm actually currently here looking for an easier method to dry trim, knowing it almost certainly doesn't exist. @Renfro How are you hand trimming 40Lb of crispy clutchers? Employing young, dextrous hands to do it?)
If either of you, or anyone else has detailed this (the dry and no cure method, not the dry trimming - though clearly I'd love that too) in a thread/post could you link it, pm me, or just gimme a clue and I'll search for it.
Please sense the joking nature of this post
(PS, finished longest, best dry I've seen to date, did a "test trim", and while removing some crispy sugar leaves I was hit with the best smells I've encountered to date. It's gotta be the controlled, slow dry...right? It might be a taaaadpole wet still even).
Thanks guys.
Renfro
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Just to clarify, when you smell weed, it is the terpenes evaporating that you are smelling. There is a limited amount of these terpenes and once evaporated the weed has lost it's full terpene profile and will no longer smell good. That is all. Pretty simple. Curing simply allows time for this evaporation to occur.
My girl does the hand trim for me.
It's pretty cut and dry lol. Nothing fancy, just dry it and get it bagged ASAP and out the door.
I get that part of what you're saying. You smell what you smell because that's what's in the air, so it's no longer in the plant.
I'm picturing a huge trimming machine, or android that you've nick named "my girl".
Ok. I don't have to point out the details or "order of operations" taken that seem to be missing. Edit: maybe I missed'em...? Anyway...
Maybe the only thing that's made this go round smell (much) better at this point in the process is the long, consistent, properly set and controlled drying then..(?) I guess I'll just keep trying different things.
Thanks.
On a funny (cringe funny) note, have you ever known someone to want an immediate "sample" of their harvest and so they dry a bud out in the microwave!? I'm almost dying typing that. True story. What the fuck are you thinking you're getting a sample of - what it's like to be insane!? Hahaha.
First "flushing" is nonsense. Now "curing" is nonsense. Holy fuck.
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Renfro
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yeah, really bad for flavor. when I was a newb and I wanted a quick taste I would set a nug on the light hood for my 400 watt HPS. After an hour or two it would be dry but have a lot more flavor left than if I microwaved it. Still, not great tasting.
I just put my harvested, defanned buds (still on stems) in bread trays, that room has a ceiling fan moving air. It's usually pretty low RH%, like in the 30's so it is usually dry in 5 - 7 days. Usually takes my girl about a month to trim it all out. When I bag the nugs I remoisten them. I use wrung out wet paper towels in a turkey bag or for larger batches a rubbermaid tub and some 62% boost packs to bring the moisture content back up so it smokes better and doesn't turn to dust during transport and handling. About 3 paper towels per pound, if the nugs are super dry, within 24 hours the paper towels are dry and the buds have adsorbed that moisture. If they are still below 60% I repeat the process. Once they are at 62% pounds are made in turkey bags and boost packs are packed in with to keep things happy.