Losing bud smell

Hello

This is my second harvest, and I've noticed that every time I dry any plant a grassy smell takes over the original smell.

I don't understand why this happens. Im not harvesting early. Oddly some of my plants retain the smell when drying, but generally speaking, I will lose almost all of the smell when drying. The drier the less smell.

I hang whole plant for 5-7 days until the outside of buds feel dry and stems slightly snap. Then I jar.

Most of the time I end with this grassy smell, but some other plants smell much more pungent and not grassy at all when dried. Problem is, it's a 25% good smelling plants vs 75% grass smelling plants.

I jarred them 1 week ago and the grass smell is less noticeable now but it's still there. What really surprised me is that I just grinded a gram for a joint and the smell coming out of the grinder is very, very good and very strong. But my buds still smell grassy on the ouside. It's only when I grind the good smell comes.

Is it possible to avoid this grassy smell at all or is it OK?

sry for english ^^

Jarheads be messing it up for you.
be sure to grow the plant properly first, supply all necessary resources, your plant only grows to its weakest one, make sure they all covered.
follow directions on your nutrient feeding schedule, included with all quality fertilizer systems.
I follow the drying directions in the grow bible for a trouble free exp every time, the book is free now online.
I dont jar my smoke ever, never ever.

chemphlegm said:

Jarheads be messing it up for you.
be sure to grow the plant properly first, supply all necessary resources, your plant only grows to its weakest one, make sure they all covered.
follow directions on your nutrient feeding schedule, included with all quality fertilizer systems.
I follow the drying directions in the grow bible for a trouble free exp every time, the book is free now online.
I dont jar my smoke ever, never ever.

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Would you advise not to jar? How will it cure? I'm drying atm and just bought jars today! I just read a post about freeze curing which was interesting...

its a personal thing I gather. sealed up vegetable material containing moisture will ferment or mold possibly. goes against my common sense farming to do this, to jar up moist plants for any amount of time. but know that in Africa some tribes bury their fresh weed until it molds, wash it and use it, they say its the best too...imagine how nasty it must have been if just dried in a hanging basket without this "cure"?
I' I advise reading the grow bible, begin with drying chapter, its sort and sweet, leaves no guesswork, no wondering or issues. download it for free. get a small fan, know your humidity/control it. and keep temps like 75/76f. its a no brainer after that.

your best experience will be the one you believe in, not the one you believe. If I were you I'd try some each way that you're interested in and stick with what you love forever. come to know each of their issues if any. come to your own conclusion, then post it here as advice

Are you using meters to check your RH when jarred up ?
If not , you will never know where they are in moisture content ...

No need to overthink this ... THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP is to harvest plant at " right " time .... Not too early ( buds immature / triches not fully opaque ) . Harvesting plants too early because of impatience just throws all that hard work out the window .

First .... Get an RH meter to " monitor " your drying space. It will tell you the relative humidity in that space so you can JUDGE how quickly your drying buds are doing.
( and if you need to correct too dry or too humid of a space ).

This meter is from WALMART and costs a whopping $8.


Dry your buds by hanging or racking them. And check on them regularly. There is NO SET TIME ( DAYS ) to DRY , as it settles down to the environment they are in as they dry.

For me it takes a few days ... I dont wait til stem cracks ... I cut buds off of stems and then brown bag for for a day or two ( brown bag will STILL keep buds aerated and slow down drying a bit ) , i toss in a small RH METER with buds inside bag to monitor. I keep bag closed and roll bag around to mix the buds around .... When i get to at least 70% , i jar.




The reason i do this , is because i can now drop the RH in smaller steps by burping jars once a day instead of weeks of burping them. I maintain better weight and smell because they dont get jarred too wet and for too long.

The other option instead of " Brown Bagging " is a CVAULT ( once u have RH " close " to 70 % ) then you can pop in some BOVEDA PACKS 62% - and get some FIRE ASS SMOKE .

I get a grassy smell only if I start jaring before dry enough, or just crappy plant. More often though it's a subpar plant. If it's dank and stinks, it'll be funky great even before completely dry/smokeable. Dry and cure just improves everything. One other thing I've noticed with the plants the keep the nose/flav is that they r always sticky even after dried. If it ain't sticky even after a dry typically it's just a so so plant. I'm a noob myself and rambling but hope this helps. Sometimes no matter what you do some plants just fall short. Focus
On a controlled grow and supply the right amount of nutrients the whole grow and the stink will stick

Budzbuddha said:

Are you using meters to check your RH when jarred up ?
If not , you will never know where they are in moisture content ...

No need to overthink this ... THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP is to harvest plant at " right " time .... Not too early ( buds immature / triches not fully opaque ) . Harvesting plants too early because of impatience just throws all that hard work out the window .

First .... Get an RH meter to " monitor " your drying space. It will tell you the relative humidity in that space so you can JUDGE how quickly your drying buds are doing.
( and if you need to correct too dry or too humid of a space ).

This meter is from WALMART and costs a whopping $8.
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Dry your buds by hanging or racking them. And check on them regularly. There is NO SET TIME ( DAYS ) to DRY , as it settles down to the environment they are in as they dry.

For me it takes a few days ... I dont wait til stem cracks ... I cut buds off of stems and then brown bag for for a day or two ( brown bag will STILL keep buds aerated and slow down drying a bit ) , i toss in a small RH METER with buds inside bag to monitor. I keep bag closed and roll bag around to mix the buds around .... When i get to at least 70% , i jar.

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The reason i do this , is because i can now drop the RH in smaller steps by burping jars once a day instead of weeks of burping them. I maintain better weight and smell because they dont get jarred too wet and for too long.

The other option instead of " Brown Bagging " is a CVAULT ( once u have RH " close " to 70 % ) then you can pop in some BOVEDA PACKS 62% - and get some FIRE ASS SMOKE .

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Thanks for the answer.

I do it this way:

1- Cut plant. Trim fan leaves. Hang upside down in dark, well ventilated place.

2- Wait a few days. Usually at day 5 or 6 the plant is almost dry and the smell is gone, replaced by a grassy hay smell. Only when I squeeze buds I can smell the dank, but the outside part of the bud smells like hay or grass. I dry for 5-7 days. Drying longer is too much here.

3- Jar the product. I jar them when the outside feels dry and the stem bends and snaps a little bit. I learned that if I let my plants go for 10 days drying (that's until stem really snaps to me), the plant is too dry. Then I throw a 62 boveda pack in the jar from day 1.

4- Usually I will get a hay grassy smell when opening the jars for the first time. However I've been curing for 10 days and some of the jars are losing the hay smell and the weed smell is taking over. The plants that I let hanging for 10 days don't smell.

5- I burp jars for a few hours every 2 days, then close again.

I have one plant that stinks and she did all the way from dry to cure. I don't know why I can't keep the dank smell all the way through. I've been reading a lot of posts about this and a lot of people are saying that the grass smell is OK and it is perfectly normal, while other people believe it shouldn't smell grassy. They believe it's a good sign because the clorophyl is evaporating from the bud.

This is my second grow only, but everytime I hang a plant the hay smell comes, save for a few of them.

I guess it's time to get a small hygrometer and trying the "a perfect cure everytime" method.

It's WAAAAAYYYY easier to "step down " the RH by slow drying than trying to rehydrate
OVERDRIED buds. Once you overdry , the cure is over. That is why i dry down to 70% .
That way i can slowly work the RH DOWN.