Is it normal for buds to smell like hay right when you crop?

When my plants were growing the weed looked really good. Even when I touched the buds by accident my hands would smell like potent weed. But everytime I crop and then smell the buds, they smell like hay unless i touch the buds to my nose and smell it. It this normal since I am still drying and the buds have not been cured either?

maybe normal, strain dependent, maybe nose blind too, happens

Sounds like they are drying too fast, how low is your humidity?

Definetly strain dependent. I have a JillyBean that smells like orange when chopped and dried. The smell is palpable. But of the 10 strains I have it's the only one that sticks out like that.

Mine always smells nice growing, lose smell as it dries, then smells nice after about a week in the jar.
Don't dry too much, it needs some moisture to cure.

Its normal. Hang till the stems crack then throw in a jar with boveda packs. You will be good to go

I believe that hay smell is chlorophyll in your plant material, that smell is supposed to dissipate after curing for a few weeks.
Im going to be harvesting next week and Im afraid my awesome smelling nugs are gonna lose their smell
Something that is worth looking into is a 24-72 hour dark period right before harvesting to have the plant stop producing chlorophyll which I am going to test this harvest.

NuggODank said:

I believe that hay smell is chlorophyll in your plant material, that smell is supposed to dissipate after curing for a few weeks.
Im going to be harvesting next week and Im afraid my awesome smelling nugs are gonna lose their smell
Something that is worth looking into is a 24-72 hour dark period right before harvesting to have the plant stop producing chlorophyll which I am going to test this harvest.

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The difference will not be measurable. Consider a typical grow of twelve weeks. Four veg and eight flower. Do you think a couple days of no light will make a considerable difference in chlorophyll production? Could the extra chlorophyll just be balanced by an extra day of drying/curing?
Six of one. Half dozen of another I suppose. It might save you more on electric than anything else but post your results and let us know how you made out.

As to OP's query about hay smell...the smell goes away most of the time and the dank smell comes back when the buds are curing in jars.

Mine NEVER smells like hay. That is either pulled early, dried to fast,grown wrong or bad genetics.

Dr.Nick Riviera said:

Mine NEVER smells like hay. That is either pulled early, dried to fast,grown wrong or bad genetics.

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I disagree. Maybe it doesn' t have such a hay like smell but usually that fresh flower smell goes away and should come back fuller at the nose with a long cure.

Dr.Nick Riviera said:

Mine NEVER smells like hay. That is either pulled early, dried to fast,grown wrong or bad genetics.

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I agree with this.

Really depends...

Plenty of things could have caused a "hay" smell, but if you did nothing wrong then genetics is to blame.

Try running some popular OG,Chem or cheese cuts and it will wreck your nose hardcore from late flower,dry,cure all the way till its gone lol and if it still smells like hay, then check your methods.