Need help all methods and suggestions welcome

So basically this the second time I have ever harvested a plant first time around the hay grassy smell never really left it chalked it up to most likely harvesting to early and drying to quickly and hot had it in the grow room only place I had to dry it now I’m through my second plant it was a autoflower from my local dispensary smelled great like a earthy diesel kind of smell let her flower outside dried it for about a week in a much cooler area of my house between 60-70 degrees and yet it still retains that smell it’s only been in the jar for about 4-5 days now so basically will the smell go away if I just continue burping the jar or am I stuck with the smell no hydrometer either for reference

Keep burping, often times your buds will change smells a few times. Curing in jars is a fermentation process. Once all the chlorophyll is broke down the hay smell will be gone.

macsnax said:

Keep burping, often times your buds will change smells a few times. Curing in jars is a fermentation process. Once all the chlorophyll is broke down the hay smell will be gone.

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I’m a very impatient stoner lol and this is all just for me and my gf to smoke and friends if they come around any ideas how long it could possibly take to get rid of the chlorophyll

1-2 weeks ish. Do you have a hygrometer in a jar? Knowing the rh of your bus will help a lot. If they dried too fast and are below 55% rh you probably won't get rid of the hay smell. Below 55% = no more cure.

macsnax said:

1-2 weeks ish. Do you have a hygrometer in a jar? Knowing the rh of your bus will help a lot. If they dried too fast and are below 55% rh you probably won't get rid of the hay smell. Below 55% = no more cure.

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Nope no hygrometer

Growing in hydro your pretty much stuck with hay. Most use scented nutes to remedy this although apparently they are too stupid to realise it. If you've ever did a side by side you'd know that.. Do you even side by side bro?

LinguaPeel said:

Growing in hydro your pretty much stuck with hay. Most use scented nutes to remedy this although apparently they are too stupid to realise it. If you've ever did a side by side you'd know that.. Do you even side by side bro?

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Really?? You got any more dumb shit to enlighten us with? Let me guess, your a "master grower".....

LinguaPeel said:

Growing in hydro your pretty much stuck with hay. Most use scented nutes to remedy this although apparently they are too stupid to realise it. If you've ever did a side by side you'd know that.. Do you even side by side bro?

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Never said I was growing in hydro “bro” get your dumbass shit out of here that is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard and growing in fox farm organic soil for the record

kinda tough to give advice if you don't want to buy a humidostat. Thought I read someone say there are cheap ones at pet stores for reptiles. You put it in the container and close it up. You want 65 to 60 rH. And burp 3 mos daily, sampling as you go if you like. Don't forget when they're open, set an alarm to remind you to close them.

raggyb said:

kinda tough to give advice if you don't want to buy a humidostat. Thought I read someone say there are cheap ones at pet stores for reptiles. You put it in the container and close it up. You want 65 to 60 rH. And burp 3 mos daily, sampling as you go if you like. Don't forget when they're open, set an alarm to remind you to close them.

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No joke, I learned to set an alarm when burping the hard way. It's too easy to get sidetracked in just a few minutes.

Amazon has the small led hygrometers for your jars .... get them.

If buds ( jar ) is showing CLUMPING / SETTLING at bottom of jar .

DO THIS :
Get a big brown bag ( grocery ) and placed loosened ( UNClump them ) into bag.
Roll top down like lunch bag .... NOT ALL THE WAY .. just enough to close.
ROLL SEALED BAG - to mix up contents . Put in closet , under bed , etc.

Check bag daily .... open bag to vent , then close , roll contents , put away.
You find this BROWN BAG METHOD .... helps control the drying GRADUALLY instead of hanging out on a string. The bag BREATHES and allows moisture and oxygen to move.
Use UNBLEACHED BROWN bags ....

You will find buds are drying uniformly..... I place a hygrometer in bag , but you can go by whatever means you feel they are ready to jar ... a meter is a must , then when you STORE IT you can pop an integra pack or boveda in the jar.

It’s stupid easy.

I will have to invest in one in couple weeks when I get paid again got at least that long till some of the afghani #1 is done

Budzbuddha, I'm about to do my first cure/harvest and the guides I find on here are really lacking, not many people word things comprehensively or leave out important parts of steps as if they are common knowledge. I guess my main question, because your comment helped me out a bit already, is how often do you burp your jars in a step by step guide? From what I've read people seem to say to burp it 3-4 times for a few days and then only once or twice for the next weeks but I'm not sure how long you leave the jar open or how often??.. Like I said I'm having trouble finding a good step by step on this and I've sort of forgotten what I did read a few hours back haha but I'll research again of course. Also instead of hanging on strings doing the paper bag method how long does that usually take?
Any help/advice would be awesome

it’s hard to state a TRUE way to dry / cure ... as it is an experience kind of thing. My way is one of a thousand different ways.

But there are key things to do :

Drying slowly ( whether hanging or on a rack )
May take up to 10 days to get the dry where you need it.
Get some hygrometers ( digital ) - I tried those lizard analog ones but they swing too much in range.
Some growers wet trim , some dry trim ....
Some hang the whole plant ....
The brown bag method ( look online ) is not new but another way some growers do it.
Jars average about 32 oz. ( wide and small mouth ) ... Walfart sells them by the case $11.
Drying place you choose should avoid a lot of unnecessary light and be fairly RH / Temp stable.

( I used to use those large UHaul garment moving boxes ) with a rack to hang hangers of bud . )
Some air movement in area helps ( as long as it doesn’t hit them directly ).

Jars are the most recognized -
Fill about 3/4 or so ... checking on them and burping.
Time to burp varies ( but adding a hygrometer in jar helps a bunch ) as you can monitor what’s going on inside being sealed . Then you can spread out burping if necessary. Drying is the hard part.

Not dry enough - you get some funky odors . Sometimes pulling buds out and spreading on table to dry out helps then jar them back to check where it stabilizes after say a couple hours. I ALWAYS move buds around in jar while burping using a chopstick to mix them around.

Wet buds will mold and be a bust. Overdried buds ( under 55% ) usually causes cure to stop.
It is easier to STEP DOWN a jar’s RH instead of fucking up and trying to rehydrate buds.
Forget that tortilla , orange peel bullshit for hydration of overdried buds , if you overdried them out of the cure range then it’s on you.

I hope others will chime in too for you. I hope the chart below will guide you a bit.

definitely getting an led hygrometers, sounds like it will make things easy to follow. Will that same meter you showed work both in the jar and for drying?

Here you go ....

I bought these on amazon .... then ordered more on WISH ( comes from China ) and are much cheaper , but amazon can get you some fast.

Much appreciation for the help and quick reply. My man!

They are small enough to drop in a brown bag , jar or whatever. Batteries are fairly cheap to replace too.

Think this is my last noob-noob question for the night that your mention of batteries made me think about.. Do you leave the meter on the entire time inside the jar/bag or leave it off until you put it in jar/bag and turn it on?

Yeah I’m up late lurking the forum ..... lol.

They are on always and last quite a long time. No switch on them.
I have some going strong over 2 years.