Is the Dank Smell all in the Cure?

Seems like my buds smell more or less like hay after harvest. Different strains, grown to maturity. They smell great during the grow. I know your suppossed to cure longer....Ive never cured more then a week. I mainly cure to even out the moisture. My buddy said its all in the cure to get stanky buds, they need 4 weeks. What have you noticed? I wanna be able to smell the sac from another room!

I try for 3-4 weeks in the jar. It helps a bunch. got to give time to get rid of the green.

100% normal for the hay smell, its chlorophyl and shit like that leaving the bud basically, your pal is correct, the cure is the most important part.

glass jars.

How long do you dry them for? It's probably because you don't let them dry long enough.

5-7 days. More like 7.

You need to dry your buds properly until the branches snap if u bend them. Then u need to put them in the air type glass jars and seal it. Then open up the jar everyday and leave with lid open for 15 mins. Then seal the jar and repeat on daily basis. Do this for a month then all the chorophyl will have left the buds, Then u sould leave for another month without opening the jar and keep it somewhere cool and dark. The only thing is can u wait that long and not smoke the buds.

Evil

You have to open the jar to burp for a month? I also trim before drying. Well I should be able to try waiting it out this fall probably....

you only burp till the moisture is gone then it needs to be sealed and left for a few weeks to finish up.

I burp daily for the first week and decrease the emount for the next 2-3 weeks.
I cure until the bud leaves become more brown than green.

I DOES help the smell alot.

I got a bud that have been cured for 9 months now and the smell improved tenfold. (Got a fresh bud of the same genetics to compare)


The trick is to realize you should always smoke the harvest before your last one until you next harvest is ready.

shit all my dank is gone before I get past 2 weeks of cure ...............evertime

you don't grow enough.

stumps said:

you don't grow enough.

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that and hooking up my buddies

If they like it now. give it a few weeks before handing it out. you'll be a god to them.

If you have dank nugs to begin with they should still be dank after drying, if dried slowly. Faster the dry, lesser the taste and aroma. Let's say you dry them for like 4-5 days wich I see most people do here before starting to cure, then you dried them too fast in my opinion cuz there is still a lot of chlorophyll left wich leaves the plant together w the moist so if you start curing to soon this process is gonna go on in your jar and add little to the bud. I started last drying in the bathroom but the humidity was soo low around 20-25% so I moved them into the grow room, let them hang in a shaded spot, arond 25C and humidity between 35-45% and hung whole. Took another 6 days for one of the plants and another 9 days for the fatter budded plant till they were dry for trimming and then curing. You can see on the bud leaves when it has lost most of its chlorophyll, the green parts take on a more greyish colour, takes around 7-9 days therefore this should be done before the curing for best results in my opinion.

Hope this help ya.

//CaL

if you have a dank strain it will smell dank while its flowering and when its cut. i had super lemon haze and dried it for about 8 days and then put it in the jar. it never got more better cause it was the bomb after it was dry. no green smell just lemons and grapfruit! they were gold nuggets! so awesome!

swampgrower said:

if you have a dank strain it will smell dank while its flowering and when its cut. i had super lemon haze and dried it for about 8 days and then put it in the jar. it never got more better cause it was the bomb after it was dry. no green smell just lemons and grapfruit! they were gold nuggets! so awesome!

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yup, that's what I'm saying I think that the curing process only makes ur buds dry out more evenly, wich in itself is good, and since they are laying in a jar full of buds, they take on more intense aromas so I guess if u have "bad" smelling weed it can improve by curing but don't expect it to be "da bomb" if it isn't dank after drying....sorry! Ofc, properly dried dank buds + curing also imroves taste and aroma a little, but why I think people say it does "a lot" to the taste and aroma is because they dry their weed to fast and beeing dry and smokeable they try it and say it tastes a lot of chlorophyll, ofc it does it's dried to fast and the chlorophyll didn't get the chance to "dissapear" all of it, then start curing and after a week "Curing really is the trick, dam my buds are dank again" when it really isn't the curing in itself that made it taste better, it's because now the chlorophyll is gone Curing only improves, curing itself doesn't get you dank buds. Starting the cure too soon (dried to fast) and the process isn't even half way through and that will add to your buds...so drying "slower" is in my opinion the "trick", then the curing improves.

//CaL

people say let them dry until stems snap, but we've trimmed them and cut them all apart and left them on racks to dry for a few days. this worked waaaay better. we used to have the same smell problem. we're not sure what it came from, maybe a bad flush or something. but last time the smell was good before and after they were cut, and never smelled grassy at all.

if you leave the buds dry until the stems snap, there's no point in putting them in jars because there won't be any moisture left in them to sweat out. use your judgment and put them in the jars when you feel they're dry enough to not become moldy, but still wet enough to sweat out moisture.

Butthead08 said:

people say let them dry until stems snap, but we've trimmed them and cut them all apart and left them on racks to dry for a few days. this worked waaaay better. we used to have the same smell problem. we're not sure what it came from, maybe a bad flush or something. but last time the smell was good before and after they were cut, and never smelled grassy at all.

if you leave the buds dry until the stems snap, there's no point in putting them in jars because there won't be any moisture left in them to sweat out. use your judgment and put them in the jars when you feel they're dry enough to not become moldy, but still wet enough to sweat out moisture.

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yes you are right, the "trick" is just, for best result in my opinion, to still after 7-9 days have them a lil bendy not snappy to achieve this hang plants whole w a RH around 40% at 20-25C and it will take around 7-9 days till they are "dry for trimming and curing", not snappy, and this allows for most chlorophyll to evaporate before curing trimming really is a beetch this way but trimming them after drying let your buds "sweat" and your dank buds will stink up right before going in the jar. Thx to Shrubs First for the drying tip, I tried this way and i'ts the way I'm going till I try something else that proves to be better...just make sure you have a good air flow so there's no mold, don't blow right at them, I just let the fans from the growing sections move the air, works for me. Also to add I think that many people here in the forums, especially "first timers" chop their plants to early and the buds haven't really "packed" up then their plant(s)/buds will dry faster hence a "lesser product" regarding yield, potency due to cut too early and lesser taste and aroma due to again cut too early but also due to it dries up too fast loosing a lot of taste and aroma...these are my conclusions after growing and drying/curing buds many different ways, not what I've read or heard.

//CaL

I think that genetics are just as important as the drying/curing process. I say this from my own personal experience.

Some strains that I've grown have smelled and tasted super before going into cure. Yes, they have always tasted and smelled better after a good cure. But they smelled great growing and drying to begin with. I've also had some very good weed that didnt smell a lot growing or drying. A good cure improves the taste but it wont make something that wasnt dank smelling to begin with magically smell dank.