My homegrown never has smell, what am I doing wrong?

I've grown 2 plants (Cheese, Cinderella 99) and they smell during flower, but after the cure the buds have almost no smell.
Grown in DCW, dried to buds feel dry on the outside and cured in Cvault with humidpaks.

What am I doing wrong?

wow im currently growing some cheese myself id like too know as well!

most of the time, smell,taste and potency are lost to premature harvesting. other times,it's shitty genetics.

chuck estevez said:

most of the time, smell,taste and potency are lost to premature harvesting. other times,it's shitty genetics.

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Thanks for your response chuck!
I did chop the cheese too early, but I let the Cindy 99 mature till it's trichs were amber...still no smell.

randybishop said:

Thanks for your response chuck!
I did chop the cheese too early, but I let the Cindy 99 mature till it's trichs were amber...still no smell.

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were there still white hairs when you chopped?

I've had the same happen to me.
Not 100% sure but I think it happened when I'd jar to early to cure.
I'd end up opening it up to see the crispy buds were now soft and had lost their smell.
Then form there would end up having to leave jar open for a day or 2 or constantly burp.
After this id end up with sweet smelling light hay smell but when broke or pinched, it wreaked to high heaven still.

this thread is helpful for those issues. https://www.rollitup.org/t/a-perfect-cure-every-time.514841/

howsitgrowin420 said:

this thread is helpful for those issues. https://www.rollitup.org/t/a-perfect-cure-every-time.514841/

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you're still alive, must not have showed up yesterday, or did you have stow arrested?

regarding your cheese strain in particular, I've taken a dutch farms cheese down as early as the first couple days of week 8 (8 weeks post switch to 12/12) and not had issues with smell by using the process in that thread. In my experience, don't take it off of the line too early (or out of your drying basket).

Harvesting while you still have a large number of clear trichromes will give you a different effect than if you leave the same strain until the end of week 9 when the trichs are mostly amber. It's the difference between being all uppity and wanting to do things and just having that couch lock sedative effect.....I have harvested the top buds while allowing the bottom buds to ripen up more if I want to have two effects out of the same batch.

chuck estevez said:

were there still white hairs when you chopped?

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Hairs were turning brown when chopped.

chuck estevez said:

most of the time, smell,taste and potency are lost to premature harvesting. other times,it's shitty genetics.

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True Story...I think you may have chopped too soon...

drying curing process must need some changes. for perfect cure dry a nice slow dry and slow cure. im sure theres some good threads here on RIU but my rule of thumb is set drying room humidity to 60% humidty. Hang until stems snap in half crispyly. I then cut buds off stems and hang in drying racks for a few days. then manicure buds into jars burped once a day at first less after two weeks or so. Every strain is different just dont try to rush the process!

I usually do a 10 day dry at 50% humidity 70-75 degrees Fahrenheit then jar them with boveda 62% humidipacks for however long I feel like curing them. Smell really starts coming in after the first week or so. Chopping too early definitely has an effect though.

ITs All homegrown somewhere right

Yeah I'd be tended to agree that it's gonna be down to your drying& curing practice's not bringing the smell out properly.

Like most others have said, there's quite alot of good guides on here, and 1 other guide I remember being real good was the dry/cure chapter in that Soft Secrets NL growing for dummies PDF.