my chronic has no smell

so....I grew and harvested some big bomb, thc bomb , lemon bud, wonder woman, all female plants.....used the
advanced nutrients with bud candy, used a strict ppm feeding schedule, in soil, harvested when the trichomes were 50-50, (clear to cloudy)..
.....multiple flushings during the grow....

....AND THERE IS NO SMELL!

...basically smells like grass, some mustiness, but other than that, wtf happened to the
usual "chronic" smell......?

...the weed looks good, it certainly does the job it was bred for...BUT NO FREAKIN' SMELL....!

if anybody out there has any ideas...please let me know as I just started flowering 12 more plants.

Thanks

how did you dry and cure it?

50-50 clear cloudy with no amber sounds at least a couple weeks early

in my experience, early harvested bud has little or no smell besides grass/hay

also, the curing process is important for smell

Did you jar too early? Or "dry" in a high humidity? Either could cause the mustiness.

ya it was harvested a little early and if you didnt cure it right it might not smell like it should

trimmed the plants up, hung them upside down in a closet with ventilation, temps were low, I live in Arizona
so there is no humidity......let them hang for 4-6 days, depending on the size of the buds.....and jarred them
up.....have been doing the usual burping the jars.....

...but just prior to harvesting, all the plants had their own distinct heavy "chronic" smell when you touched the buds..
....

It takes time for the grass smell to wear off.

flymejc said:

trimmed the plants up, hung them upside down in a closet with ventilation, temps were low, I live in Arizona
so there is no humidity......let them hang for 4-6 days, depending on the size of the buds.....and jarred them
up.....have been doing the usual burping the jars.....

...but just prior to harvesting, all the plants had their own distinct heavy "chronic" smell when you touched the buds..
....

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You for sure vented the smell away, and also had to low humidity while drying.

dry with a relative humidity of 50% over the course of 8-10 days, what happened here is you dried it to fast, and with no humidity.
humid air carries smell, so if u want it to smell keep a little humidity in the room, and dry the product slower.

ive dried tons of damp bud over the last 5 years.
sadly most was bought.

do not have constant venting while drying the buds!!!
vent once every few hours.

also dry in a cool and dark area, darkness is used to get rid of the chloryphll which give bud its green color, chlorophyll is produced by photosynthesis, which needs light in order to occur, a dark room with stop the production of chlorophyll and get rid of that smell you are talking about.

and make sure your room temps are cool around 65-70 degrees and also around 50 percent relative humidity and dry over 8-10 days, and then begin a cure if u have the time.

for dense buds use a paper bag method, and for the looser buds use jars.

let me know if u got any more questions.

THE TRICK IS TO NOT DRY SO FAST AS YOU DID HERE, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A 4-6 DAY DRYING PERIOD.

Ps. just read that over and u say you are in Arizona which confirms what i said, your problem is in arizona im pretty sure the relative humidity is 30 in the ambient air,

you'll need a cheap humidifier (in your arizonian situation), and only vent enough to keep the relative humidity at 50%.

and dont go too cold, whenever i put dank bud in the freezer the smell gets squeezed out of the bud because cooler air hold less moisture, and smell is held in the humid air, not dry air.

THIS WILL FIX YOUR PROBLEM.

how long have you been jarring it... in a week or so the hay smell should be gone

/thread

Maybe dried too slow? Maybe not ripe enough, most terepins are intense on the down slope of a plants life. Many harvest before they even kick in, sad.

You gotta jar it for months IMO. At least one I'd say. I use to get rid of it early and I'd notice the smell. But by the time I was out of it, it would have that perfect smell.

yeah I always hear about a month being cured but i don't get the great smell or taste back until like 2 months for the normal plants I get.

IMO drying, in order to get ready for a cure, is tricky.
It helps a lot to have a hygrometer. I like the xikar ($25 ebay) b/c it's able to be calibrated using the salt test. Large mason jars and some plastic bins ($5 at walmart) finish off the list of what is needed.

Some may not like my method b/c your buds do get beat up a little bit, but this slow dry method keeps things dank. Look at the original post. His buds look great but don't smell. My buds look rounded and worn but smell great and here's why.

Hang the plant for 3 days with leaves on. At that point the leaves will start to die and the buds will be dry and soft and will seem to not be dank smelling anymore. At this point you want to take off all the leaves and buds off the plant and put the buds in mason jars.
Keep in the jars for about 10 hours. After that the buds will have moistened up and should smell again. At this point dump the buds out of the jars and keep in the bins for 10 hours. After that the buds will seem to be drying up and will start to seem like they don't smell dank anymore. Once again put into jars for 10 hours and then guess what. You got it. repeat the cycle over and over again for about 5 days to a week.
At the later stages you will start to test samples with your hygrometer to dial things into the right relative humidity.
At some point you will be there after the rotations between jars and bins. 66% Relative humidity was good enough for me since the RH in an empty mason jar was 64%. 66% seemed pretty damn dry too. If I didn't have a hygrometer I would have jarred at much higher an RH.
So in conclusion some may not like this method b/c your buds get rounded and look worn. I like this rotation method b/c the slow dry keeps the buds smelling great. The outer tricomes break up and cover the buds with a coating of stickyness and the buds get rock hard. A jar of buds dried this way should smell dank.

I dunno man maybe it was the genetics? the really really good stuff i've grown (818 Headband) doesn't even need to be cured for it to smell, but the less potent stuff i.e. (Northern light blue) smelled like hay until it was cured properly

Remember if it says 50-55 days flowering, that's 55 days after its done stretching into 12/12

so your stuff took 12 days to initiate into 12/12 florwering, well add 12 days to 55+ days, most people dont relize this, and harvest tooo early